Gold · #1 Retail
Tally
Simbe · 2021
5 confirmed customers · source verified
74.09
RoboIndex
72.39 score + 1.70 momentum
Retail · scores as of 11 Oct 2026
Top Retail Robots
13 robots ranked by RoboIndex — the RoboScore for evidence, plus up to 15 points of Momentum for a maker with live news. Evidence still decides; news only reorders what was already close.
The top-ranked retail robot on Robolist.ai is Tally (Simbe), with a RoboIndex of 74.09 and a confirmed customer.
Close behind: StockBot (PAL Robotics) at 62.67, then Tally Spot (Simbe) at 56.95.
Robolist.ai ranks 13 retail robots by RoboIndex as of 11 Oct 2026.
Silver · #2 Retail
StockBot
PAL Robotics
1 confirmed customer · launch year not on file
62.67
RoboIndex
60.30 score + 2.37 momentum
Bronze · #3 Retail
Tally Spot
Simbe · 2022
variant of Tally
no confirmed customer
56.95
RoboIndex
56.10 score + 0.85 momentum
- Rank
- Where you stand. RoboIndex is RoboScore + Momentum — the 0–100 evidence figure plus up to 15 points for a maker in the news. Both parts are printed on every row, so you can check the sum.
- Momentum
- What's happening now. Up to 15 points, from news events that decay over 90 days. It can lift a rank, never sink one — a quiet maker keeps its RoboScore in full. Recomputed daily, so positions can move between weekly score freezes.
- Movers
- A lens, not a page. The same list re-sorted by momentum change — see this week's.
The rest of the standing
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13 ranked1 changed their own score this week2 held out as pre-2020
At a glance · top 10
- 1. Tally (Simbe, United States) — RoboIndex 74.09, launched 2021, confirmed customer.
- 2. StockBot (PAL Robotics, Spain) — RoboIndex 62.67, confirmed customer.
- 3. Tally Spot (Simbe, United States) — RoboIndex 56.95, launched 2022.
- 4. Renwoxing Unmanned Retail Vehicle (Alpha Robot, China) — RoboIndex 56.95.
- 5. SmartKART (Dane, United States) — RoboIndex 54.87.
- 6. YINYIN ROBOT-30 (Aobo Information, China) — RoboIndex 52.31, launched 2025.
- 7. PhanShop (Gausium, China) — RoboIndex 52.02, launched 2025.
- 8. Digital Teammate (Badger, United States) — RoboIndex 50.09, launched 2025.
- 9. Vigil Checkout (Vigil AI, United States) — RoboIndex 49.81, launched 2026.
- 10. Mech-Eye AIC-Lite 2D AI Camera (Mech-Mind Robotics, China) — RoboIndex 49.73.
How we rank
RoboIndex ranks each robot by RoboScore — a 0–100 evidence score — plus up to 15 Momentum points for a maker with live news. Momentum can only add to a rank, never subtract from one.
Which robot ranks #1 for Retail?
Tally (Simbe) ranks #1 for Retail as of 11 Oct 2026, by RoboIndex.
How many retail robots does Robolist.ai rank?
Robolist.ai ranks 13 retail robots as of 11 Oct 2026.
How is RoboIndex calculated?
RoboIndex is RoboScore — a 0-100 evidence score from structured data — plus up to 15 Momentum points from dated news, which decay over about 90 days. Momentum can only add to the score, never subtract from it. Full breakdown at /methodology.
How often is the Retail standing updated?
Scores freeze once a week; the board shows that weekly standing. This standing is current as of 11 Oct 2026.
The Score Δ column only moves when a robot's own score moved. It is not a report on the week: rank position drifts whenever a neighbour moves, and publishing that as an arrow would be inventing movement. A robot that did not change reports how long it has sat where it sits, in days and then in weeks — so a score that settled last week is told apart from one nothing has touched in months. A trailing + means that streak runs back to the 30 July rescoring and is a floor, because no score can be compared across a change of formula.
Robots first sold before 2020 are held out of the standing. Robots with no recorded launch year stay in — an unknown year is not evidence of age, and treating missing data as old would quietly delete most of the catalogue.
Momentum belongs to the maker, not the robot. Every robot a maker sells moves together. Where we have no news signal at all the row says so in words rather than showing a zero — a zero would claim the company is quiet, when all we actually know is that we have not heard anything.
Makers are ranked on a separate board. A robot is never ranked against a company, so Top Retail Companies is its own standing, built from each maker's robots in this category alone.
How this ranking is built — the factors behind the score, the year gate, how ties are ordered, and why Momentum is capped and bonus-only rather than averaged into the score.