Factory and warehouse automation

The industrial robot is no longer a privilege of car plants. Cobots go in within a week and are programmed by hand, warehouse robots are rented, and a camera with a neural network checks every part. Payback — from two and a half years.

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B2B

For business

Small and mid-size plants — a cobot for palletizing, welding, machine tending.
Warehouses and marketplaces — AMR robots that bring shelves to the picker.
Food production — machine vision on the line and robotic packaging.
Suppliers to large plants — automation to meet the customer’s quality requirements.

B2C

For the home

For workshops — a desktop robot arm and 3D printing for small batches.

What we do

We find the operation where a robot pays back fastest.
We build the cell: robot, gripper, sensors, guarding, program.
We prepare the paperwork for state subsidies where they apply.
We train operators and maintain the equipment.

What to consider

The money is in integration and service, not in hardware: without an engineer, the robot stands idle.
A long B2B sales cycle — six months or more from pilot to contract.
In Russia — only Chinese and local brands; Western ones have left the market.

Price estimates

What	Estimate	Comment
Dobot Nova 5 cobot	~$13,800	arm without tooling
JAKA Zu5 cobot	$18,000–22,000	arm without tooling
UR5e cobot	$35,000–45,000	not supplied to Russia
AMR warehouse robot	$15,000–35,000	plus 30–60% for software and integration

Data as of 30.10.2026

Where and how

Russia

About 21,000 industrial robots (Rosstat, the state statistics service, 2025) against a target of 145 per 10,000 workers by 2030. Imports are 77–83% of the market, mostly from China. A 20% cashback on deploying robots; robotization subsidies — ₽9.6 billion in 2026. A turnkey cell — ₽8–30 million, payback — 2.5–6 years.

Russia

Vietnam

Robot density — about 23 per 10,000 workers (Thailand — 58, Malaysia — 101). Foreign investment in 9 months of 2026 — $50.36 billion, 82.6% of the disbursed amount into manufacturing. Duty on industrial robots — 0%.

Vietnam

On the radar

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Cobots

Collaborative robot arms: they work next to people without a cage — palletizing, welding, machine tending.

Dobot Nova 5 — ~$13,800 · JAKA Zu5 — $18,000–22,000 · UR5e — $35,000–45,000price of the arm without tooling; a cell for a specific task costs more

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How it works

Force sensors in the joints feel a touch and stop the arm. You program it by guiding the robot’s arm by hand — no programmer needed. Chinese cobots cost 30–50% less than Western ones.

Fact. In 2025, 603,000 industrial robots were installed worldwide, 59% of them in China.

Russia. For Russia — Chinese brands; Western ones have left.

Vietnam. Import duty on industrial robots — 0%.

Sources: IFR World Robotics, 24.09.2026 · Vietnam duty, HS 8479.50

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AMR warehouse robots

Autonomous carts bring racks and boxes to the picker: the person does not walk the warehouse, the warehouse comes to them.

$15,000–35,000 per robotplus 30–60% for software and integration; service — $1,000–3,000 a year

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How it works

The robots navigate by lidar and markers, and the system hands out jobs to hundreds of machines at once. The picker stands at a station and takes goods from the shelf that pulls up — productivity grows several-fold.

Fact. In Vietnam, Viettel Post sorts 1.4 million parcels a day with a fleet of about 200 robots.

Source: Rest of World: Viettel Post

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Machine vision on the line

A camera and a neural network check every part on the conveyor: scratches, chips, underfill, skewed labels.

Per projectdepends on line speed and the number of cameras

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How it works

The model is trained on images of good and bad products. Then it watches the flow faster than a person, does not tire by the end of the shift and logs defects in a report with a photo.

Fact. Three things to start: a camera, the right light and a server running the model.

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Dark factories

Factories where lines run without people and without lights — only people need light.

—a guidepost for manufacturing strategy

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a service, not a product

How it works

FANUC robots have been building robots without people for up to 30 days straight since 2001. Xiaomi’s factory in Changping — 11 automated lines for 10 million smartphones a year.

Source: Lights-out manufacturing

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How we work

Four steps from task to service

Task analysis

What to do, where, by when and on what budget. Sometimes the best robot is a well-tuned process.

Selection and costing

Two or three options with the full price, payback and a check that import and servicing are legal.

Delivery and launch

Logistics, customs, certification, installation, setup and team training.

Service

Maintenance, spare parts, updates — or rental instead of purchase.

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Two minutes — country, task, budget and timing. That is enough to propose a solution.

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