A yard, campus or substation is covered by cameras that see what they were pointed at when they were installed. A patrol fills the gaps between them, checks that doors are actually shut, and gives the control room something to send before a person drives out.
The honest framing is deterrence and verification, not interception. A robot that cannot detain anyone still changes the maths if it shortens the time between an alarm and a human looking at the right thing.
Requirements are stated with the reason they exist. A requirement without a reason is a preference, and preferences are how a shortlist quietly becomes a recommendation.
A patrol window is a shift; a robot that charges twice a night covers a third less ground.
Patrols do not stop for weather, which is when they are needed most.
The work happens at night, when a visible-light camera is a torch pointed at nothing.
A patrol robot with no live feed is a recording device with legs.
The whole point is nobody is on site; a robot that needs picking up has cost you a call-out.
These are not weaknesses to trade off against a high score. Any one of them ends the conversation, which is why they sit outside the scoring entirely.
Shipping robots in our catalogue whose class matches this job, listed under the industrial weighting so you can scan them — not a recommendation. It runs unattended overnight, so recovery from a stuck state and a serviceable fleet matter more than an open SDK.
Order follows the industrial profile score. Requirements and disqualifiers above are editorial; they do not remove robots from this list. How the score works
Compare candidatesThese are kept off the candidate list rather than mixed into it. A candidate list is something you can act on, and hardware nobody can order does not belong on one.
Pudu Robotics
Pilots outnumber deployments, and the reason is rarely the robot. Security budgets buy guard hours, and a patrol platform has to displace them convincingly. It also runs into public and staff reaction faster than any other job here — a walking robot on a site changes how people feel about the site.
