About

We turn robots into workers.

Bender is an agency for robotic labor. We don't build robots and we don't resell them: we take on a slice of a company's operating capacity and cover it with the right robot for that job. What the client buys is productive hours, not hardware.

Companies don't want to become robotics companies. They want the work done — the night shifts, the repetitive tasks, the seasonal peaks, the physically wearing jobs fewer and fewer people want to cover. Bender exists to make robotic labor usable without a business having to build robotics expertise in-house.

What we do

We select the machine across 20+ manufacturers worldwide, deploy it inside the client's process — delivery, setup, integrations, workflow training — and then operate it over time: remote monitoring, updates, maintenance and replacement. The robotic worker's lifecycle stays with Bender. The service is monthly and managed, with no upfront hardware investment and no manufacturer lock-in.

See how it works, step by step, or tell us what work you need done: we assess the use case and tell you which robot makes sense.

Robot intelligence

We are hardware agnostic by design, and being genuinely agnostic means knowing the whole market. So we keep our marketplace of humanoid robots public — prices, specs and availability — along with profiles of the makers behind them and a desk that follows the field day by day in news. It isn't a side project: it's the research every selection we make for a client rests on.

Bender is a member of NVIDIA Inception, NVIDIA's program for startups building with artificial intelligence.

How the desk works

The desk tests claims instead of amplifying them, and is kept separate from the commercial side: a robot doesn't make the news because we deploy it, and doesn't drop out because we don't. Read our editorial policy, our ethics statement and our public corrections log. The desk bylines are AI-assisted editorial personas, supervised by the team.

Get in touch

Business enquiries: request form
General: contact page

The people behind Bender

The team that selects, deploys and operates our clients' robotic workers.

  • David Bryant
    David Bryant
    Chief Executive Officer

    Leads Bender and takes on every new client personally, from the first call to the signature.

  • Pietro Angelici
    Pietro Angelici
    Chief Robotics Officer

    Picks the right robot from 20+ manufacturers and decides when it is ready for the line.

  • Alex Citeroni
    Alex Citeroni
    Chief Technology Officer

    Builds Bender's technology: the platform, the robot catalogue and the analysis tools.

  • Pietro Ruffoni
    Pietro Ruffoni
    Chief Operating Officer

    Makes every project run on the ground: installation, suppliers, support and maintenance.

  • Alessandro Desti
    Alessandro Desti
    Chief Marketing Officer

    Explains humanoid robotics to the people who run factories and warehouses, without the jargon.

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.