Robot demo, pilot or deployment: what evidence should you ask for?
A practical checklist for interpreting robot demonstrations and comparing task capability, human assistance, operating conditions and sustained use.
From demonstration to deployment.
Practical briefing: Ask how many robot attempts produced useful results
A success percentage needs a clear definition of an attempt and a useful result. Today’s practical task is to request the counts and conditions behind a robot performance claim, using the linked evidence checklist to organize the answer.
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Ask for attempted cycles, completed tasks and human interventions, together with the object range and test conditions. Check whether a retry counts as a fresh attempt and whether an assisted completion is included as success. A prepared-object trial and a varied operational job should not be treated as equivalent measurements merely because both report a percentage.
Try this Build a comparison row with attempts, unassisted completions, assisted completions, failures and input variation. Leave unknown values blank and label them unavailable. Keep the publisher’s claimed rate separate from any rate you calculate from disclosed counts. This worksheet organizes reported evidence; it does not independently verify the robot’s performance.
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