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The Robot Economy reference
Robot deployments
Selected examples from existing coverage. Dates belong to the cited statements. Opening a source verifies its published statement, not physical operation or current fleet status. This is not a complete deployment census.
Reported operation, installation, rollout, completed pilot and demonstration describe different evidence stages. A customer quote inside a supplier release is not an independent audit.
An announcement establishes intent. A demonstration record describes the work presented in that setting. A completed pilot, reported operation and an ongoing rollout have different limits. Opening a public source verifies its statement, not physical performance. Missing hours and economics remain unknown.
6 selected case studies
Warehouse / electricity-infrastructure logistics
TEPCO Logistics
MujinRCP / Mujin; AGV and arm hardware makers not specified
Task and place
Case picking and palletizing electrical-infrastructure materials. Central Branch, Ota, Tokyo, Japan.
Stage and evidence date
Supplier reports operation — 2026-06-04. Mujin says the installed workflow is running at the named branch.
Reported count and scope
17 AGVs; arm-robot count not numerically stated
Productive hours
Not disclosed in reviewed source.
Output and supervision
Supplier reports 90% of case-handling volume automated and target picking staffing reduced from four people to one; this is not a claim of an unattended warehouse.
Economics
No price, measured savings or payback disclosed in reviewed primary source.
Unknowns
Productive hours, uptime, interventions and maintenance cost.
Hai reports more than 9,400 totes/hour; sustained measurement basis and supervision load are unspecified.
Economics
No customer payback or realized unit cost disclosed.
Unknowns
PSI describes close to 1,100 robots, sorters and conveyor belts in an integrated infrastructure; its counting scope is not reconciled with Hai’s 948-machine subsystem. Uptime, human interventions and productive utilization.
Evidence type
Supplier release; integrator release with customer quote
Sundt Construction; Champion Site Prep; Zachry Construction
Bedrock Operator retrofit / Bedrock Robotics
Task and place
Excavation and earthwork on named commercial projects. United States: Sundt site in Nevada; Champion site in Texas; Zachry site location unspecified in release.
Stage and evidence date
Supplier reports operator-out operation — 2026-08-17. Release names three contractor projects and includes a Sundt CEO statement.
Reported count and scope
Robot count not disclosed; three project descriptions are not three machines
Productive hours
No site-level productive hours disclosed; model-training hours are a different measure.
Output and supervision
Site manager sets the initial plan; supplier describes automatic stops when people or unauthorized objects approach.
Economics
No measured cost per cubic yard or customer payback disclosed.
Unknowns
Remote interventions, uptime, cycle time and customer acceptance results.
Monitoring energized HVDC equipment and reporting asset condition. Blackhillock, Spittal, Kergord and Noss Head, Scotland.
Stage and evidence date
Existing operation plus announced rollout — 2026-09-04. Operator reports two years of use for the original Blackhillock robot; seven additions are being rolled out.
Reported count and scope
1 original operating unit + 7 additions; eight is the expanded fleet, not eight verified active units
Productive hours
Not disclosed; more than 5,000 inspections over the next 12 months is a forecast, not realized output.
Output and supervision
Operator describes autonomous rounds feeding results to operating teams; intervention frequency is unreported.
Economics
Five-year RaaS partnership stated; no price or realized savings disclosed.
Unknowns
Final rollout completion, uptime and detection accuracy.
Figure 02 loaded sheet metal; Figure 03 demonstration sorts components into a sequencing trolley. BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States.
Stage and evidence date
Figure 03 demonstration; completed Figure 02 pilot — 2026-06-30. BMW reports the earlier Figure 02 production pilot; Figure labels June 2026 Figure 03 work a first demonstration.
Reported count and scope
Fleet count not disclosed in reviewed primary pages
Productive hours
Not disclosed in reviewed primary pages. BMW reports Figure 02 supported more than 30,000 X3s over ten months; this is not Figure 03 output.
Output and supervision
Figure 03 runtime, intervention load and sustained sequencing throughput are not stated.
Economics
No price, labor-cost reduction or payback disclosed.
Unknowns
Figure 03 acceptance, uptime and production-scale deployment.
Evidence type
Customer statement plus supplier demonstration statement
Match the task, robot generation, setting, reporting period and measurement unit before comparing outcomes. A supplier’s selected throughput claim and a customer’s dated production record are different evidence. These cases do not form a complete deployment census or a product recommendation. Corrections and additional primary records can be sent to the newsroom.
For cost assumptions, use the robot-cost reference. For the underlying categories and reporting paths, start with the Robots guide.
Guide text reviewed 19 October 2026. Linked reporting keeps its original publication dates. About our editorial desks.