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Robot-as-a-Service Companies in 2026

Robots are expensive to buy, so a growing number of makers don't sell them at all. Instead they rent them out by the month, bill by the hour or charge per delivery, and handle maintenance and software updates themselves. This is an unranked directory of 20 real companies using that “Robot-as-a-Service” (RaaS) model in 2026, from warehouse pickers and security patrols to sidewalk delivery bots. For each one you'll find its home country, founding year and how it charges.

Locus Robotics autonomous mobile robots in a warehouse

Pictured: Locus Robotics’ LocusBots, from the warehouse & logistics segment.

Company Segment Country (HQ) Founded Pricing model Notable fact
Locus RoboticsWarehouse & logisticsUSA2014Monthly per-robot subscriptionOne fee bundles hardware, software, maintenance and support
inVia RoboticsWarehouse & logisticsUSA2015Pay for the productivity deliveredCalls itself the first RaaS goods-to-person picking system
Vecna RoboticsWarehouse & logisticsUSAn/aRaaS from about $10 per robot per hourMore than 90% of its projects are delivered as RaaS
Ambi RoboticsWarehouse & logisticsUSA2018Monthly RaaS, minimum four-year termAI sorts polybags, flats and boxes into mailsacks
Agility RoboticsWarehouse & logisticsUSA2015Multi-year humanoid RaaS contractsSigned the first humanoid RaaS deal (GXO, 2024)
FormicManufacturingUSAn/aFixed monthly rental, from $5,975/month250,000 robot usage hours logged by March 2025
Brain CorpCleaningUSA2009Software subscription on partner-built robotsBrainOS runs 50,000+ robots on six continents
AvidbotsCleaningCanada2014Monthly RaaS subscription or purchaseNeo 2W scrubs up to 42,000 ft² an hour
KnightscopeSecurityUSA2013Annual “Machine-as-a-Service” subscriptionPatrol shifts of 8, 12, 16 or 24 hours
Cobalt Robotics (Cobalt AI)SecurityUSA2016Monthly RaaS subscriptionIndoor patrol robots now feed a wider AI security platform
Starship TechnologiesDeliveryUSA2014Per-delivery fees from partners10 million+ autonomous deliveries
Serve RoboticsDeliveryUSA2021Per-delivery fees plus advertising2,000-robot fleet across 20 U.S. cities; Uber sold its stake in 2026 and the Uber deal ends in early 2027
Coco RoboticsDeliveryUSA2020Per-delivery fees plus merchant subscriptionsRaised $80M in June 2025, with Sam Altman among its backers
Bear RoboticsHospitalityUSA2017Rental subscription or purchaseLG Electronics took a 51% stake in January 2025
Richtech RoboticsHospitalityUSAn/aRaaS contracts alongside sales and leasesSigned 55 RaaS contracts in fiscal 2025
Simbe RoboticsRetailUSA2014Recurring subscription, priced by stores and scan frequencyTally robot scans store shelves for stock and prices
Diligent RoboticsHealthcareUSA2017Recurring per-hospital feeAcquired by Serve Robotics in January 2026
Gecko RoboticsInspectionUSA2013Multi-year inspection contracts plus software subscriptionValued at $1.25 billion in June 2025
ANYboticsInspectionSwitzerland2016Fully serviced RaaS, or purchaseFour-legged ANYmal robots inspect industrial plants
Dusty RoboticsConstructionUSAn/aSubscription, or $1,250-a-day leasePrints building layouts directly onto the floor

Highlights

Warehouse & logistics

Locus Robotics

Locus, founded in 2014 near Boston, makes mobile robots that roll up to warehouse workers with a tote, so pickers stop walking miles a day between shelves. It's one of the best-known examples of RaaS. Customers pay a monthly fee per robot that covers the hardware, the LocusONE software, maintenance and support, and they can add robots for the holiday peak. Locus doesn't publish prices. Industry estimates put the fee in the low thousands of dollars per robot per month, usually with a 12-month minimum.[1]

Manufacturing

Formic

Formic lets factories “hire” industrial robots, such as palletizers that stack boxes onto pallets, instead of buying them. It handles the engineering, purchasing, installation and upkeep itself, and it keeps ownership of the equipment. Its Full Service Rental costs a fixed monthly fee starting at $5,975 with no upfront capital spending, and a month-to-month palletizer plan starts at $3,975. Formic reached 100 deployments in December 2024 and 250,000 robot usage hours by March 2025.[2]

Warehouse & logistics

Agility Robotics

In 2024, logistics giant GXO signed a multi-year RaaS deal for Agility's two-legged humanoid robot, Digit. It was the industry's first formal commercial humanoid deployment and the first humanoid offered as a service. At GXO's warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia, Digit had moved more than 100,000 totes by late 2025, staying about 98% accurate while on task. By May 2026, Agility reported more than $300 million in multi-year customer orders for its next model, Digit 5, subject to contract milestones.[3]

Security

Knightscope

Knightscope's bullet-shaped security robots, like the K5, patrol parking lots, campuses and malls. Clients don't buy them. They sign up for what Knightscope calls “Machine-as-a-Service,” usually on an annual contract, with patrol shifts of 8, 12, 16 or 24 hours. Prices have ranged from about $650 to $5,500 a month per machine, depending on the model and package. One California city's contract listed a base price of $78,000 a year for an outdoor K5.[4]

Delivery

Starship Technologies

Starship was started in 2014 by two of Skype's co-founders and runs its engineering from Estonia. Its six-wheeled sidewalk robots carry food and groceries across college campuses and city neighborhoods, and they have completed more than 10 million deliveries. Starship earns a fee for each delivery from partners such as universities, grocers and delivery apps. It says a robot delivery already costs $3–4 less than one by a human courier and is aiming for about $1 per drop. A $50 million raise in October 2025 is funding a planned jump from about 2,700 robots to about 12,000 by 2027.[5]

Hospitality

Bear Robotics

Bear's Servi robots carry plates and dirty dishes between the kitchen and tables, so restaurant servers can spend more time with guests. The company offers rental subscriptions as well as outright purchase. Through one U.S. reseller in 2026, a Servi cost $11,990 to buy or $399 a month on a 36-month lease. LG Electronics increased its stake to 51% in January 2025, taking control of the company.[6]

Healthcare

Diligent Robotics

Diligent's Moxi is a one-armed hospital robot that fetches supplies, lab samples and medications so nurses don't have to, and it opens doors and rides elevators along the way. It has worked in more than 25 U.S. hospitals, and a faster Moxi 2.0 arrived in October 2025. Hospitals pay a recurring fee rather than buying the robot. When delivery-robot maker Serve Robotics bought Diligent for $29 million in January 2026, it said each hospital could bring in $200,000 to $400,000 a year.[7]

Inspection

Gecko Robotics

Gecko's wall-climbing robots crawl over boilers, tanks and pipelines, using sensors to measure wear that human inspectors would need scaffolding to reach. The Pittsburgh company usually signs multi-year contracts that combine regular robotic inspections with a subscription to its Cantilever data and AI platform. Inspection fees are based on how much of an asset is covered, not on hours worked. A $125 million round in June 2025 valued Gecko at $1.25 billion.[8]

Construction

Dusty Robotics

Before walls go up, someone has to mark where they go. Dusty's FieldPrinter prints the building's layout straight from the digital plans onto the concrete floor. Dusty offers it to general contractors as a service rather than selling it outright. Published rates include a prepaid daily lease of $1,250, an unlimited annual plan of about $15,000 a month, and a one-time $6,000 training fee.[9]

Robots Business Technology

Sources

  1. Locus Robotics LocusONE/RaaS coverage and third-party pricing estimates (Sacra company profile; Thirdfin and RobotToday reviews; Robotomated RaaS guide).
  2. Formic 2025 fact sheet; Formic RaaS launch and Series A coverage (Automation.com, Robotics 24/7, Gear Technology).
  3. GXO/Agility Robotics multi-year agreement announcement (gxo.com, 2024); Agility “Digit moves over 100,000 totes” release and coverage (Robotics & Automation News, Interesting Engineering, November 2025); Churchill Capital Corp XI Form S-4/A (SEC, 2026) for Digit 5 orders.
  4. Knightscope Machine-as-a-Service page and SEC annual reports; Huntington Park, California, revised Knightscope agreement (K5 Outdoor annual base price); InvestorWire coverage of K5 cost.
  5. Starship Technologies press releases (10 million deliveries; grocery expansion, June 2026); $50M Series C announcement (Business Wire, October 2025) and coverage (Restaurant Business, Unite.AI).
  6. LG majority stake coverage (Restaurant Business, KED Global, The Investor, January 2025); Bear Robotics company history; Servi reseller pricing (RestaurantTools.ai, citing RobotLAB, July 2026).
  7. Serve Robotics release on acquiring Diligent Robotics (January 2026); The Robot Report on Moxi 2.0; Proof News reporting on Moxi's RaaS fee and per-hospital revenue.
  8. CNBC on Gecko Robotics' $125M Series D (June 2025); Sacra equity research on Gecko's business model (May 2026).
  9. Dusty Robotics FieldPrint Platform/FieldPrinter 2 coverage (ForConstructionPros, Automated Warehouse) and published RaaS pricing breakdowns (BroBuilder, Robotomated).
  10. Table-only entries, warehouse & logistics: inVia Robotics' RaaS page and 2025 SupplyTech Breakthrough award; Vecna Robotics coverage (Robotics 24/7, The Robot Report) and Aptiv partnership (Business Wire, 2025); Ambi Robotics' RaaS approach page and The Robot Report coverage of its OSM Worldwide deployment.
  11. Table-only entries, cleaning, security and delivery: Brain Corp press releases on fleet scale and subscription revenue; Avidbots Neo 2W coverage and RaaS pricing guides; Cobalt Robotics funding (The Robot Report) and Cobalt AI's 2025–2026 updates; Serve Robotics SEC filings and TechCrunch/Axios coverage of its split with Uber (August 2026); Coco Robotics' $80M Series B (PR Newswire, TechCrunch, June 2025).
  12. Table-only entries, hospitality, retail and inspection: Richtech Robotics fiscal 2025 annual report (10-K, via StockTitan); Simbe Robotics' $50M Series C (Simbe newsroom, Grocery Dive, October 2024); ANYbotics on RaaS as its preferred model (AWS Robotics blog).