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Humanoid workers · managed by Bender
Bender selects, deploys and operates the right robotic worker for your business — so you buy productive hours, not hardware.
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Live simulation Wheeled humanoid · end of line
- 1 Arrive
- 2 Pick
- 3 Crate
- 4 Pallet
- 5 Ship
Packs arrive from the packing machine
- Packs
- 0
- Crates
- 0
- Pallets
- 0
Drag to rotate
- 20+
- robot manufacturers tracked
- End-to-end
- from selection to go-live
- Included
- monitoring and maintenance
Scenario · end of line in food packaging
From packing machine to warehouse,
no legs required.
A humanoid on a wheeled base takes over the most repetitive end-of-line work. No legs to balance means every watt goes into arms, hands and working hours.
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01Packed products arrive from the packing machine
The conveyor accumulates packs straight off the packer, at line speed.
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02Robot picks products from the conveyor
Vision and two hands: every pack picked in stride, no line retooling.
- 03
Robot fills crates or carton boxes
The same fill pattern, crate after crate, shift after shift.
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04Full crates are stacked onto a pallet
The mobile base carries each crate to the pallet and stacks it in place.
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05Pallet moves to the warehouse
The robot doesn't clock out — the line can run longer hours.
Illustrative renderings of an AgiBot G2 deployment scenario.
Payload per unit
up to 10–15 kg
Current operation
2 shifts
Goal
run more hours with robotic automation
How many more hours?
Line hours covered per week (5 days, 8-hour shifts; 24/7 = 7 days).
80
hours / week
+0%
vs. today
Humanoids on the line
Real robots, real processes.
From our workshop to simulated factory lines — this is how the humanoids we select and operate get work done.
Legs are optional.
Most line stations never move. A humanoid torso on a mobile base has the same two arms and hands, but stays stable under load and spends its battery on work, not on balance.
- Stability under load
- Good Excellent
- Runtime per charge
- Shorter Longer
- Stairs and steps
- Yes No
- Mechanical complexity
- High Lower
- Best for
- Mixed terrain Fixed stations, flat floors
Simulated before deployed
Five jobs, one humanoid.
Every project starts in simulation: we model the station, train the task and measure cycle times before the robot reaches your floor.
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 typical configuration over 6,000 hours a year, versus roughly €30/hour for a human worker in Italy
- 6,000 h
- per year, per worker up to, on 24/7 coverage: roughly the shift capacity of 3.5–4 full-time people
- ~63%
- lower cost ~€66,000 a year versus ~€180,000 for the same 6,000 hours of human work
The fee starts at €4,000/month for the simplest configurations. The benchmarks are indicative and we verify them case by case 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
Five sectors.
One specialisation.
Our five sectors
- LogisticsOrder picking · Parcel sorting · Inbound handling
- ManufacturingMachine tending · End-of-line packing · Quality sorting
- Retail & GroceryShelf replenishment · E-commerce picking · Stockroom handling
- Food & BeverageConveyor picking · Case packing · Pallet preparation
- HospitalityLinen handling · Housekeeping support · Back-of-house logistics
The work itself
- 01 Picking and order preparation
- 02 Machine tending (CNC, presses)
- 03 End of line: case packing and pallets
- 04 Shelf replenishment
- 05 Material movement and internal transport
- 06 Visual quality checks
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.
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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
Industry & Logistics Breaking
Tesla Confirms Optimus Production, Aims for Late 2027 Customer Deliveries
Tesla has announced that its Fremont facility is now producing commercial-quality Optimus humanoid robots, with a target of late 2027 for initial customer shipments. This marks a significant step towards industrial deployment, albeit with a projected lengthy ramp-up.
By myBender 2 min read
Read the story 
On the market
The robot marketplace
Agility Robotics Shipping Digit
Agility Robotics’ bipedal warehouse humanoid, the most commercially deployed humanoid in industry, offered mainly via Robots-as-a-Service.
- Height
- ~175 cm
- Payload
- 16 kg
- Runtime
- 4 h
Price
Price on request 
UBTECH Robotics Shipping Walker S2
Industrial humanoid and the first robot able to autonomously hot-swap its own batteries, in mass production and delivery since late 2025.
- Height
- ~1.76 m
- Payload
- 15 kg
- DoF
- 52
Price
Price on request 
Kepler Robotics Shipping Forerunner K2
Kepler's hybrid-architecture 'Bumblebee' industrial humanoid at ¥248,000 (~$34,000), in mass production with ~8 h runtime.
- Height
- 1.75 m
- Payload
- 15 kg per arm (30 kg dual-arm)
- DoF
- 52
Price
About $34,000 See them in action
Official demo videos from the makers.
Companies
The makers
Latest
On the wire
FAQ
Bender in brief.
What is Bender?
Bender is an agency for robotic labor based in Milan, Italy: it selects, deploys and operates industrial humanoid robots as a managed service. The client company buys no hardware: it pays a monthly fee for productive hours.
How much does it cost? Do I have to buy the robot?
No, you don’t buy the robot. The fee starts at €4,000 per month for the simplest configurations and covers the robot, deployment, training, monitoring, maintenance and replacement. The exact price is set in the free assessment.
Where do you operate?
In Italy. Our office is in Milan (BENDER SRL, Via privata Cascia 6).
Which industries do you work in?
Logistics, manufacturing, retail, food & beverage and hospitality, on repetitive, structured work: picking and sorting, machine tending, end-of-line packing and pallets, shelf replenishment, back-of-house logistics and night shifts.
Which robots do you use?
We are hardware agnostic: we track more than 20 humanoid robot manufacturers and pick the best-suited machine for each job. When better hardware arrives, the service can move with it.
How do we get started?
With a free, no-obligation assessment: describe the process in the request form and we reply within 2 business days, telling you whether it suits a robot and which machine we would use.
Does the robot replace staff?
The robot covers the repetitive, night and physically wearing hours that are hard to staff today. People stay on the work that needs judgement and experience.
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.