Gold · #1 Retail
Tally
Simbe · 2021
5 confirmed customers · source verified
73.45
RoboIndex
70.66 score + 2.79 momentum
Retail · scores as of 6 Sept 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 73.45 and a confirmed customer.
Close behind: StockBot (PAL Robotics) at 60.38, then Renwoxing Unmanned Retail Vehicle (Alpha Robot) at 56.95.
Robolist.ai ranks 13 retail robots by RoboIndex as of 6 Sep 2026.
Silver · #2 Retail
StockBot
PAL Robotics
1 confirmed customer · launch year not on file
60.38
RoboIndex
60.38 score · no news lift
Bronze · #3 Retail
Renwoxing Unmanned Retail Vehicle
Alpha Robot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file
56.95
RoboIndex
56.95 score · no news lift
- 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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At a glance · top 10
- 1. Tally (Simbe, United States) — RoboIndex 73.45, launched 2021, confirmed customer.
- 2. StockBot (PAL Robotics, Spain) — RoboIndex 60.38, confirmed customer.
- 3. Renwoxing Unmanned Retail Vehicle (Alpha Robot, China) — RoboIndex 56.95.
- 4. SmartKART (Dane, United States) — RoboIndex 53.32.
- 5. YINYIN ROBOT-30 (Aobo Information, China) — RoboIndex 52.31, launched 2025.
- 6. Tally Spot (Simbe, United States) — RoboIndex 51.25, launched 2022.
- 7. PhanShop (Gausium, China) — RoboIndex 50.71, launched 2025.
- 8. Digital Teammate (Badger, United States) — RoboIndex 50.09, launched 2025.
- 9. Caper Smart Cart (Caper, United States) — RoboIndex 49.59.
- 10. Mech-Eye AIC-Lite 2D AI Camera (Mech-Mind Robotics, China) — RoboIndex 41.47.
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 6 Sep 2026, by RoboIndex.
How many retail robots does Robolist.ai rank?
Robolist.ai ranks 13 retail robots as of 6 Sep 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 6 Sep 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.