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Seen from the hallway through the open front door, a robot vacuum cleaner drives off the porch, up the garden path and onto the grass, animated

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Why did the robot stop? · Part 3 of 8

Environments change. But nobody tells the robot.

A robot learns its site once, and the site keeps changing, from your own floor, from your suppliers and from your customers. Nobody tells the robot, and when it stops, nobody tells the operator why either.

Two driverless forklifts block each other at a crossing between warehouse racks, with a pallet truck and a line of small mobile robots queued in the aisles behind them

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What is robot downtime?

Ask three people whether a robot was down yesterday and you get three answers. How the standards split equipment time, and how ROCO counts it.