Humanoid workers · managed by Bender
We don't sell robots.
We turn them into workers.
Bender selects, deploys and operates the right robotic worker for your business — so you buy productive hours, not hardware.
- 20+
- robot manufacturers tracked
- End-to-end
- from selection to go-live
- Included
- monitoring and maintenance
Who we are
An agency for robotic labor.
Companies don't want to become robotics companies. They want the work done. Bender takes on a slice of your operating capacity: we pick the machine, put it to work inside your process, and keep it running.
- We don't build robots.
- not a manufacturer
- We don't resell them.
- not a distributor
- We turn them into workers.
- an operator of robotic labor
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Vision
Repetitive work can't find hands anymore.
Night shifts. Repetitive tasks. Seasonal peaks. Physically wearing work. Across industries, companies struggle to cover the hours people no longer want to do.
Robots don't replace people. They replace repetitive hours.
Mission
Make robotic labor usable by real businesses.
Turn the world's best robots into reliable, managed workers that companies can deploy without becoming robotics companies themselves.
Vision
Build the infrastructure of robotic labor in Europe.
A platform capable of putting millions of robots to work — across manufacturers, industries and use cases.
What we do
From your workflow
to a robotic worker.
01 Select
The right robot for the job.
We track 20+ manufacturers worldwide and match the right machine to your workflow, your environment and your operating target.
What Bender covers
- Workflow analysis
- Selection
02 Deploy
From machine to productive worker.
We handle delivery, setup, workflow training, integrations and go-live inside your operation.
What Bender covers
- Delivery
- Setup
- Process training
- Go-live
03 Operate
We keep it working.
Remote monitoring, software updates, support, maintenance and replacement of the machine when it's needed.
What Bender covers
- Monitoring
- Updates
- Support
- Maintenance
- Replacement
Value proposition
Buy hours of work.
Not robots.
No large upfront hardware investment. No manufacturer lock-in. No technology obsolescence to manage. Bender provides operating capacity as a monthly managed service.
Starting around
€4,000
per month, per robotic worker
Managed service. No upfront hardware investment.
- ~€11
- per productive hour versus roughly €30/hour for a human worker in Italy
- 6,000 h
- per year, per worker up to — roughly the shift capacity of 3.5–4 full-time people
- ~65%
- lower annual cost on round-the-clock coverage
Indicative benchmarks, verified during the assessment.
Hardware agnostic
One job. 20+ manufacturers. One criterion: what works best.
We don't manufacture robots and we have no catalogue to defend. We track the market continuously and choose the best fit for each job. If better hardware arrives tomorrow, Bender can evolve with it.
Use cases
Where could a robotic
worker help your business?
Industries
- Cleaning
- Events
- Facility management
- Food production
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Logistics
- Manufacturing
- Retail
- Security
- Warehousing
The work itself
- 01 Material movement
- 02 Repetitive handling
- 03 Night operations
- 04 Inspection
- 05 Restocking
- 06 Internal transport
- 07 Repetitive service tasks
How it works
Start with your workflow → Tell us the job.
We design the robotic
workforce around it.
- 01
You show us the workflow
The process, the environment and the operating constraints the robot has to live with.
- 02
We assess and select
We check feasibility and pick the right robot across 20+ manufacturers.
- 03
We deploy and train
Delivery, setup, integrations and process training, through to go-live.
- 04
We manage it over time
Bender monitors the robotic worker, updates it, maintains it and replaces it.
Bender AI Cloud
Every robot makes the next deployment smarter.
Workflows, errors, operating hours and performance data feed Bender AI Cloud. Each deployment improves how the next robotic worker is configured, monitored and operated.
Robot intelligence
We map the market because we operate across it.
Below: the machines we track, the makers behind them and the desk that keeps the picture current. It's the research behind every selection we make.
The desk
Latest news
Agility Robotics Financials Reveal Scaling Hurdles for the Digit Humanoid
Agility Robotics’ latest S-4 filing highlights the immense capital intensity of the humanoid sector, reporting $1.8 million in revenue against a $140 million operating loss.
By myBender 2 min read
Read the story 
On the market
The robot marketplace
Unitree Shipping Unitree G1
A compact, mass-produced humanoid that brought bipedal robotics to a developer-friendly price.
- Height
- 1.32 m
- Payload
- ~2 kg per arm (3 kg EDU)
- DoF
- 23–43
Price
About $16,000 
Engineered Arts Shipping Ameca
A strikingly expressive humanoid platform built for human–robot interaction and public demos.
- Height
- 1.87 m
- DoF
- 61
- Runtime
- Mains-powered (110–240 V AC, tethered)
Price
Price on request 
Maxtronics Shipping NAO
A small, widely-used programmable humanoid, a staple of education and robotics research.
- Height
- ~57 cm
- DoF
- 25
- Runtime
- 60–90 min (62.5 Wh Li-ion)
Price
Price on request 
iCub
An open-source child-sized research humanoid for studying cognition and embodied AI.
- Height
- 104 cm
- DoF
- 53
Price
About $270,000 See them in action
Official demo videos from the makers.
Companies
The makers
1X Technologies 
AgiBot 
Agility Robotics 
Apptronik 
Booster Robotics 
Boston Dynamics 
Deep Robotics 
Dobot 
EngineAI 
Engineered Arts 
Hanson Robotics H Humanoid 
IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) 
Kepler Robotics 
Kondo Kagaku 
LimX Dynamics 
MagicLab 
Maxtronics 
NEURA Robotics 
Noetix Robotics 
PAL Robotics 
Pudu Robotics 
ROBOTIS 
RobotEra 
UBTECH Robotics 
Unitree 
Vstone 
Wandercraft 
Westwood Robotics Latest
On the wire
Your workflow could be next
What work would you give to a robot?
Tell us the task, the environment, the hours you need covered and the result you expect. We'll assess the use case and identify the right robotic worker.