What a robot rental for an event actually costs
Booking a robot for a trade show stand or a product launch is usually the easy part. Working out what it actually costs, and when it can be on site, is where most enquiries stall.
- What it costs, by platform.
- Robotoplus rents four AGIBOT platforms, priced per unit per week: the X2 Basic at 1,500 EUR, the X2 Ultra at 2,500 EUR, the A2 Ultra at 6,500 EUR, and the G2 at 7,500 EUR. Rates are net of VAT and shipping. A VAT-registered business in another EU member state is billed under the reverse charge, so no VAT appears on the invoice; otherwise VAT is added as required, and the treatment is confirmed in the quotation either way.
- What ships inside 48 hours.
- A unit already in stock is with you inside 48 hours of a confirmed booking. Where the specific platform has to come from the manufacturer instead, allow about a week. That status comes from the rental unit's own availability rather than from whether the robot itself can be bought outright, so the two are worth asking about separately: a platform can be purchasable and still be a week away as a rental, or the reverse.
An AGIBOT A3 coming out of its wheeled flight case and sitting up: this is what the arrival of an in-stock unit looks like, not a staged unboxing of the specific rental fleet.
- What a week of billing actually covers.
- Billing runs per unit per week, and a two-day booking is still charged as a full week, because the cost that does not shrink is getting the machine to the venue, commissioning it and taking it away again afterwards. Longer terms are negotiable, and so is an operator for the days you need the robot running rather than just present. The contact form returns a figure against your actual dates, not a callback.
None of the four platforms above is a like-for-like substitute for another at an event. A bipedal humanoid that walks a fixed route through a stand needs a different footprint, and a different safety boundary around it, from a wheeled platform that stands at a fixed point and interacts with whoever approaches. A three-day regional trade fair and a single evening product launch are also different bookings in everything but the invoice: the first is worth negotiating a longer term against, the second rarely is. Which platform earns its rate for a given stand size, footfall and duration is exactly the conversation the contact form starts rather than settles on its own, and it is worth having before a booking is confirmed rather than after the robot has already shipped.
