About
A clearing house for robots
Robotics Verdict is free and independent. It tracks 193 robots across ten parts of daily life and work and places each on a five-step ladder from demo to everyday use, from dated public sources anyone can check. It is part of the Verdict series, which follows the key technologies and advances of our time the same way.
01What we do
Report, don't judge
Every morning the site reads regulator records, company filings, makers' newsrooms and trusted outlets, and updates each robot's dated track record. Its stage follows from published rules, never from our opinion.
We never rate or rank robots, never sell a stage, and never invent a fact. Where our sources are silent, we say so. How we work.
02The Verdict series
One question, three frontiers
Robotics Verdict is one of the Verdict sites, a series from Simplify Software that follows the technologies and advances most likely to change how we live and work: robots, artificial intelligence, and the science of living longer.
Each site asks the same question, how far has it actually got?, and answers it the same way: checked every morning against public records, studies and trusted reporting, written in plain English, with every claim linked to its source. Each one reports the evidence rather than passing judgement.
- You are hereRobotics VerdictHow far robots have actually got, from humanoids and home robots to robotaxis and surgical robots.
- Artificial intelligenceIntelligence Verdict What AI can actually do today, checked every morning: everyday tasks, agents, models, and how close superintelligence really is.
- Living longerLongevity Verdict Every new longevity study, trial, test and clinic, with what the experts are saying about it.
The sites meet where their fields do. Robots that help people live at home for longer sit between robotics and longevity, and the robots we track increasingly run on the kind of AI that Intelligence Verdict follows.
03The founder
Yale Marc
I'm Yale Marc, the founder and publisher of Robotics Verdict. I'm a senior software engineer with about 20 years of experience. I worked on projects for NASA and DARPA, then spent the last 15 years building software for the healthcare industry. I don't work for any robot maker, and that's exactly why this site works the way it does: it doesn't ask you to trust my opinion, or anyone's. It follows the robots every morning, shows how far each one has actually got, and links every claim to its source.
Robots are showing up in videos faster than anyone can check them. Whether you can ride one, buy one, or should worry about one for your job is usually answerable, but the answer is buried in regulator records, company filings and reporting few people have time to read. I wanted one free, independent place, in plain English, that shows where each robot really is and keeps up as it changes.