Evidence before narrative
Publicly documented events enter the record with their source attached, so readers can inspect the underlying evidence directly.
07 How the registry works
Know what made the cut
and why.
The public rules behind inclusion, evidence, claims, corrections and every signal in the registry.
A modern-technology test
Companies qualify by what they build today: AI-native autonomous systems, robot-first software or robot supply chain. Conventional automation sits outside this registry’s cohort, whatever its age.
Corrections stay auditable
Companies may claim profiles and propose sourced corrections. Editors review changes, while evidence grading remains independent.
Who gets in
The registry covers the modern, software-first generation of physical AI.
- Companies qualify by their current products: AI-native autonomy, not conventional automation.
- Robot makers ship complete autonomous physical systems.
- Integrators deploy modern robots into real operations.
- Software includes foundation models, simulation, orchestration, perception, safety and developer tooling.
- Components cover the robot supply chain: sensing, actuation, manipulation, compute, power and connectivity.
Cohort boundaries
MRR is a focused cohort, not a catalog of the entire industrial-automation industry.
- Incumbent-owned product divisions are excluded; distinct subsidiaries with their own brand and operations qualify.
- Pre-2010 founders are marked legacy and qualify on the same modern-technology test as everyone else.
- Coverage is global. Companies outside the US and EU qualify by international market orientation: an overseas entity, retail channel, named international customer or major trade-show presence.
- RPA, generic AI software, distributors and defunct companies are excluded.
Three market segments
Companies are segmented by who pays: households, businesses or militaries. These markets follow different economics and are never summed together.
- Corporate: businesses, institutions and civil agencies pay. Headline funding, hiring and company counts read from this segment.
- Defense: customers are overwhelmingly armed forces and defense ministries. Reported as a separate, labeled block.
- Consumer: robots sold directly to households. Traction is unit sales rather than announced deployments.
- Dual-use companies with real civil revenue stay corporate. Segments reflect the primary market today and move when the business shifts.
Two evidence tiers
Commercial traction determines the headline register, not funding.
- Registered: commercial activity appears in a dated, public, source-linked record.
- Early stage: credibly building and demonstrably active, but without commercial deployment on public record.
- Entries move tiers as soon as the public evidence changes.
How to read a dossier
Each surface distinguishes events, claims and signals so readers can make their own judgment.
- Deployments are public announcements with customer, site, date and source where available.
- Funding rounds require a primary source: a public announcement in any language or a regulatory filing. Databases and aggregators are never citations.
- Specifications, pricing and named customers remain vendor-claimed.
- Hiring is a market signal, never deployment evidence.
Sources and corrections
Sourced fields carry a URL, publisher and retrieval date so records can be checked and improved over time.
- Source links remain attached to the facts they support.
- Every correction requires a public source URL.
- Company-submitted updates pass through editorial review.
- Evidence state cannot be changed through the company portal.
- Coverage is updated as new public evidence appears.