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The Robotics Value Report

Everyone is writing about what robots can do. We write about what they’re worth. The Robotics Value Report is the neutral reference for the value of a robot — new, used, and at resale — with every number traced to a dated, sourced market observation. Built for everyone who has to put a value on a machine today: buyers and sellers, the lenders and auditors marking robot collateral, the insurers writing the policy. The reference the market doesn’t have yet.

What a robot is worth
A defensible market mark for the major industrial, service, and humanoid platforms — built from real market comps, not list-price guesses, and every figure carries its sources.
How value decays
Depreciation and residual curves grounded in tax authorities, auditors, and the used market — how a robot loses value from purchase to resale, and where it settles.
Where value is heading
Robotics-as-a-Service pricing, purchase economics, and the humanoid frontier — the signals that move what these assets are worth, tracked as they emerge.
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2026-07-09
How Long Does an Industrial Robot Last? What Tax Authorities, Auditors, and the Used Market Actually Say
A lender setting a term on a robot loan needs a defensible useful life. Here's every authoritative answer we could find — from the IRS's 7-year default to Australia's explicit 10-year determination to the 4-year life one robotics company uses in its audited financials — and why they differ.
2026-07-08
The Warning in the Fine Print: Equipment Credit Is Deteriorating Vintage by Vintage — and the Aggregates Haven't Caught Up
We parsed 3,351 monthly servicer reports from two captive equipment-ABS shelves, 2006–2026. Loans originated in 2023–24 are running multiples of the losses of the 2020–21 vintages at the same age — while headline bank delinquency data still reads benign.
2026-07-06
The 38,000-Unit Question: What US Robot Growth Means for Underwriters
US industrial robot installations jumped 11% in 2025, pushing a maturing asset class further into standard equipment-finance territory — even as most buyers still default to subscription-style RaaS over outright purchase.
A valuation reference for a market that doesn’t have one yet. Monthly: the Robot Price Monitor plus valuation analysis. Neutral market data, not a financing offer.
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