Robotics procurement data, with the evidence attached
Robot Sourcebook publishes cost ranges, spec matrices, market-access compliance files and vendor benchmarks for people who buy robots for a living. Every figure carries a source and an evidence grade — so you can see where a number came from, and which numbers are only our estimate.
Five sections
Each one is a standing asset that can be cited on its own — not a blog feed.
Cost Index
What robots cost
Price ranges, all-in ownership cost, and payback maths — including the certification, integration and service spend that a quoted price leaves out.
Vendor Shortlist
Who delivers, and who holds up
Vendors layered by capability and delivery record, with figures taken from public filings rather than marketing pages.
Market Access
What it takes to enter a market
Organised by market: classification and tariff rulings, safety standards, radio and laser clearance, equipment authorisation — every item traceable to a document number.
Monthly Signal
What moved this month
Buyer structure, competitor moves, compliance changes, search shifts — each item closed with one line on what it means for you.
Report Library
Full research, by category
US market studies across nine robot categories, each with a keyword matrix, vendor layering, cost model and entry path.
About
Who we are, what we won't do
No raw data resale, no vendor advertising, nothing published that can't change a purchasing decision.
Why every figure carries a grade
Because an ungraded number tells you nothing about how much to trust it.
| Grade | What it means | Example |
|---|---|---|
| A | First-party official: government filings, standards bodies, listed-company disclosure, or data we pulled ourselves | US customs ruling N362546; Symbotic 10-K; our own keyword pulls |
| B | Authoritative secondary, traced back to the original | Agency market definitions; standard publication status |
| C | Our own estimate or inference — do not cite as fact | Labour-replacement models; illustrative cash-flow models |
Where all three appear in one page, C is pulled out and labelled separately. We would rather look conservative than let an estimate pass as a fact.
What we don't do
Deliberate omissions, not oversights.
We don't resell raw data
Bills of lading, keyword databases, vendor directories — all purchasable elsewhere, some free. What we sell is the layer that turns them into a decision.
We don't take vendor ads
Rankings and layering are not for sale. A vendor appears here because public records show it active, not because it paid.
We don't write "market size" pages
Agency figures contradict each other and none of them answer "should I buy, and from whom".
Latest
New data pages and monthly signals.
Data is purchasable. Judgement is the scarce part — someone has to read all of it and tell you so what. That second part is what we do.