SOURCE
→Collect a published purchase price, rental listing or official wage record.
calculation protocol / revision 01
Every number
leaves a trail.
ROBORATE does not blend ownership, rental and wages into one seductive average. Each lane keeps its own source, grade and calculation history.
NORMALIZE
→Convert each published figure to one operating hour without mixing product types.
ADJUST
→Divide robot cost by the task productivity factor—an explicit ROBORATE assumption.
COMPARE
✓Subtract effective robot rate from the country and occupation wage line.
the central equation
Spread measures distance.
Not destiny.
A positive spread means the published robot estimate is lower. A negative spread means the recorded human wage is lower.
SPREAD = WAGE − (RENT ÷ FACTOR)human wagemarket + ISCO
robot effectiverental ÷ task factor
four separate lanes
Similar units.
Different evidence.
Purchase depreciation + analyst operating cost.
(purchase ÷ 29,200h) + opexPublished vendor rental divided by its actual operating-hour cap.
listed period ÷ hoursILO hourly earnings matched by country and occupation group.
ILOSTAT recordRobot hourly rate adjusted by our declared task factor.
rent ÷ factorevidence grading
Confidence is visible.
Vendor listing, official manufacturer page or ILOSTAT wage line.
Documented aggregator or established research source.
A transparent calculation built from sourced inputs and stated assumptions.
No defensible public price found. The desk shows the absence instead of inventing a number.
outside the index
What the hourly spread
cannot tell you.
- 01Task quality, rework and human supervision
- 02Safety incidents, downtime and integration cost
- 03Judgment, escalation and customer preference
- 04Tax, financing, insurance and local benefits