Transparency

Robolist is operated independently. We are not owned by, funded by, or controlled by any robotics company, investor in robotics, or industry consortium. Editorial decisions — what gets listed, what gets de-listed, what counts as a robot, how the score is computed — are made by the Robolist team based on the policies on this page.

Companies cannot pay to be listed, pay to remove competitors, pay to suppress bad news, or pay for a higher score. Sponsorship buys visibility, never editorial treatment.

The Robolist Score is the only thing that determines leaderboard order. The score is computed from public, verifiable signals about each robot — specifications, commercial availability, evidence of deployment, and similar factors documented in the methodology.

The score is permanently uncapped. If a Free, unclaimed company has the strongest evidence, it ranks first. We borrow this discipline from CoinMarketCap: rank by reality, not by relationship.

The Verified tier includes a “Featured” visual surface on category and search pages. The Featured slot is an above-the-leaderboard placement, clearly labelled, that does not change the underlying ranked order. A Featured company appears in the Featured slot and in its real position in the leaderboard — it does not replace, displace, or jump higher than any other company in the ranking.

The full breakdown lives on the methodology page. Two principles directly affect what the numbers mean:

Company and robot pages can show one of three trust states next to the company name. Badges are visual only; they do not alter the Robolist Score and do not change leaderboard order.

• — no badge —

  Unclaimed. The profile is maintained by Robolist from public sources.

• Claimed

  A representative of the company has signed in, completed our claim flow, and can edit structured fields.

• Verified

  The company has completed identity / ownership checks (see Claim & verification) and is staff-verified.

• Verified

  Active Verified subscription. Silver hex marks paid identity verification.

• Pro

  Active Pro subscription. Unlocks more structured content modules.

• Enterprise

  Active Enterprise contract. Unlocks the full widget set.

See the full badge taxonomy on the methodology page — including cohort badges (Genesis Founder, Founding 50) and the inline Verified-specs marker.

Robolist data comes from three sources, in this priority order:

1. 1

   Primary public sources

   Manufacturer websites, product pages, structured spec sheets (JSON-LD, HTML tables), official PDFs and press releases. These are scraped, parsed, and routed through an ingest_queue for review before they touch the live database. We never write directly from a scraper to a public field.

2. 2

   Secondary public sources

   When a primary page is sparse, we fall back to lower-confidence sources (industry directories, news coverage, AI-search providers used for retrieval, not authorship). Secondary signals never overwrite a primary value.

3. 3

   Owner-supplied data

   Once a profile is claimed, the company can edit structured fields (specs, media, descriptions) through the dashboard. Owner edits are still subject to our scope and category rules and are visible in the audit trail.

Robolist does not host user reviews, does not accept paid editorial content, and does not publish AI-generated narratives as if they were sourced facts.

Robolist is a directory of commercial physical robots. We use the robot's primary commercial use, not its form factor, to decide the category. A bipedal robot built and sold for classroom education is categorised as education; only general-purpose humanoid platforms (e.g. Atlas, Optimus, H1, G1 EDU) belong in humanoid.

Any company can be listed without claiming. Claiming a profile unlocks editing, analytics, and the ability to upgrade. We use a tiered policy to balance speed against fraud risk:

Personal email domains (Gmail, Outlook, QQ, 163, etc.) are banned from automatic approval regardless of other signals. Claimants must be a senior representative of the company; we may ask for evidence of role.

Robolist has four plans. Pricing is annual, charged once per year. The pricing page has the full feature comparison.

Paid plans unlock content modules and surfaces on a company's public page and dashboard. They do not unlock score, rank, or category visibility. The score for a Free company is computed exactly the same way as the score for an Enterprise customer.

All AI calls Robolist makes are routed through the Vercel AI Gateway, which gives us a single audit trail, spend cap, and zero-retention provider proxy.

Sponsorships are time-bounded paid placements that appear above — never within — the ranked leaderboard, with a clear “Sponsored” label. The complete list of currently-active sponsorships is shown below.

If something on Robolist is wrong — a spec, a category, a year, an attribution, a missing robot, or a robot that shouldn't be listed — please tell us. We correct in public.

• Email support@robolist.ai with the URL and what should change.
• If you represent the company, the fastest path is to claim the profile and edit it directly.
• For score or methodology questions, please read the methodology page first; it answers most of them.