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Robot Data Pipelines
Connect ROS / ROS 2 robots, industrial arms and IoT fleets to a secure, resumable data pipeline in days, not months.
$990one-time setup, from
Services
Services for robotics & IoT data
Six focused services — from the first ROS bag to robot-as-a-service financing. Start with one, combine as you grow.
Catalog
Choose what your fleet needs
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Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hot, warm and archive tiers across edge, local data centers and decentralized storage — up to 10x cheaper for visual data.
$3per TB-month (archive tier), from
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Edge Compute & Data Extractors
Run any Docker workload next to your data, or use pre-built extractors for ROS bags: video, images, logs and Parquet.
$199per month, from
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Fleet Monitoring & Analytics
Uptime, utilization, faults and battery health for robots and drones — streamed to the dashboards and tools you already use.
$12per device-month, from
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Smart Lease — Robot-as-a-Service
Data-driven financing for industrial robots: no upfront CAPEX, payments aligned with how much the robot actually works.
Custompay-as-you-use plans
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Remote Robotics Lab Access
Give developers, students or customers secure, scheduled remote access to real robots — with every session recorded.
$49per session hour, from
Service 01
Robot Data Pipelines
Connect ROS / ROS 2 robots, industrial arms and IoT fleets to a secure, resumable data pipeline in days, not months.
We deploy the MerkleBot Agent on your robots or edge gateways and configure what gets recorded, when, and where it goes. ROS and ROS 2 topics, rosbag2/MCAP files, controller logs from KUKA, Mitsubishi Electric and Universal Robots arms, Boston Dynamics Spot data and MQTT/IoT telemetry all land in one consistent, searchable pipeline.
Uploads are bandwidth-aware and resumable, so robots on Wi-Fi or LTE never lose a log and never saturate the link during operation.
2–5days to first data
ROS 1/2native support
0lost logs on reconnect
What's included
- Agent installation on robots, gateways or Docker hosts
- Topic & signal selection policies (always-on vs. event-triggered)
- rosbag2 with MCAP, compression and splitting tuned for your fleet
- Resumable, prioritized uploads with offline buffering
- Metadata indexing so every run is searchable by robot, site, mission and time
$990one-time setup, from
Service 02
Hybrid Cloud Storage
Hot, warm and archive tiers across edge, local data centers and decentralized storage — up to 10x cheaper for visual data.
Robots produce terabytes of video, depth and lidar data that are rarely read after the first week. We keep the hot slice close to your analytics, move warm data to local data center providers and back up the long tail to a decentralized storage network using content addressing.
Data is encrypted before it leaves your premises, and every object is addressed by its hash, so you can always verify that what you retrieve is exactly what you stored.
up to 10xlower archive cost
3storage tiers
100%hash-verified
What's included
- Automatic hot / warm / archive lifecycle policies
- Client-side encryption with customer-managed keys
- Content-addressed archive with verifiable retrieval
- Multi-provider redundancy — no single point of failure
- Cost dashboard with per-robot and per-project breakdown
$3per TB-month (archive tier), from
Service 03
Edge Compute & Data Extractors
Run any Docker workload next to your data, or use pre-built extractors for ROS bags: video, images, logs and Parquet.
Bring your own containers or start with our library of extractors for ROSbag and MCAP files: video and frame extraction, log enrichment, topic-to-Parquet conversion, thumbnails and anomaly flags. Jobs run where it is cheapest — on the edge device, in a local data center, or on idle capacity at the right time.
Results are written back to the same index, so a query like "all runs where the gripper stalled in Warehouse B last week" returns clips, not just file names.
AnyDocker image
10+ready extractors
GPU& NPU support
What's included
- Docker-based compute on edge, local DC or cloud
- Pre-built ROSbag / MCAP extractors
- Event-triggered and scheduled jobs
- GPU / NPU scheduling for computer vision
- Job logs, retries and versioned outputs
$199per month, from
Service 04
Fleet Monitoring & Analytics
Uptime, utilization, faults and battery health for robots and drones — streamed to the dashboards and tools you already use.
Turn raw telemetry into operational KPIs: utilization per shift, mean time between faults, battery degradation, mission success rate. Connect the data to Grafana, your BI tool, a data warehouse or alerting via webhooks — without building another ingestion stack.
Works for arms, AMRs, quadrupeds and drones running PX4 or ArduPilot, using the same agent and the same index as your recordings.
< 1 mintelemetry latency
Webhooks& REST API
Multisite views
What's included
- Live KPIs: uptime, utilization, cycle counts, faults
- Alerts via webhooks, email and chat integrations
- Connectors for Grafana, BI tools and data warehouses
- Drone flight log indexing (ULog / MAVLink)
- Per-site and per-customer views
$12per device-month, from
Service 05
Smart Lease — Robot-as-a-Service
Data-driven financing for industrial robots: no upfront CAPEX, payments aligned with how much the robot actually works.
Smart Lease connects the robot's verified usage data to a financing source, so integrators and end users can deploy automation without upfront capital expenditure. Our financing software integrates directly with the robot and works with almost any industrial arm on the market.
Because our model is aligned with yours — we get paid when you get paid — we stay involved until the cell is producing. Southie Autonomy Works used Smart Lease to deploy a Mitsubishi Electric RV-7FRL arm for contract packaging with no CAPEX.
$0upfront CAPEX
Usage-aligned payments
Anyindustrial arm
What's included
- Usage-based or hybrid (minimum + usage) payment plans
- Tamper-evident metering of cycles and hours
- Integration with invoicing and payment providers
- Robotics-savvy underwriting and support
- Upgrade and redeployment options
Custompay-as-you-use plans
Service 06
Remote Robotics Lab Access
Give developers, students or customers secure, scheduled remote access to real robots — with every session recorded.
We proved the model with a public lab where any developer in the world could remotely program a Boston Dynamics Spot located in the Bay Area. Now you can share your own equipment — a quadruped, an arm, a telescope or a test cell — with booking, sandboxed code execution, safety interlocks and recordings handled for you.
Perfect for SDK education programs, customer proof-of-concepts and monetizing idle equipment.
24/7remote access
Everysession recorded
Globaldeveloper reach
What's included
- Booking calendar and access tokens
- Sandboxed code upload and execution
- Live video and telemetry for the remote user
- Automatic recording of each session
- Usage-based billing and revenue reports
$49per session hour, from
Engagement
How we work together
Discovery call
30 minutes to map your robots, sensors, data volumes and goals.
Pilot
We connect a few robots and agree on success metrics together.
Rollout
Site-by-site onboarding with lifecycle and cost policies tuned to your fleet.
Grow
Add extractors, connections, financing or remote access as needs evolve.
FAQ
Questions about services
Can I buy a single service?
Yes. Every service can be adopted on its own — for example, only Hybrid Cloud Storage for your video archive — and combined later. They all share the same agent, index and API.
How long does onboarding take?
Most teams see their first data in the platform within 2–5 working days. Larger fleets are onboarded site by site, with a pilot on a few robots first.
Do you work with our existing cloud?
Yes. The hybrid approach is designed to complement your current cloud: we keep hot data where your analytics live and move warm and archive tiers to cheaper providers.
Are the listed prices final?
Prices shown are starting points. Final pricing depends on fleet size, data volume and support level — we confirm everything in writing before any work starts.
Who owns the data?
You do. MerkleBot processes machine data on your behalf under our Terms of Service and a data processing agreement, and you can export it at any time.
Not sure where to start?
Tell us about your fleet and we'll recommend the smallest useful first step.