San Francisco launch • supervised public humanoids

Deploy humanoid robots in public—safely, legally, and at scale.

Robomodal is building the operating system for public humanoid deployment: permits, safety, telemetry, insurance posture, and real-world operations—starting with supervised mobile retail (humanoid + rolling smart cooler) on private property and permitted events, then expanding into limited sidewalk pilots.

First-mover moat
SF permitting + insurance playbook as defensible precedent
Revenue day one
Retail + event rentals + sponsorship, with layered platform upsides
Data advantage
Anonymized real-world interaction telemetry to improve operations and design
What we’re building first
  • Supervised operation (attendant within 10–15 ft)
  • Geofenced navigation + speed cap (≤ 1 mph in public zones)
  • Smart cooler module: locked inventory, payment, sensors, telemetry
  • Remote shutdown + teleoperation fallback

The thesis

Humanoid robots are inevitable. The bottleneck isn’t locomotion—it’s public deployment: permits, liability, insurance underwriting, operations, and trust. The first company to build a repeatable deployment framework in a major city defines the standard and compounds advantage.

The problem

No public playbook exists

Sidewalk and public-space operations require compliance, incident response, and stakeholder alignment—today it’s fragmented and ad hoc.

Our wedge

Supervised retail in SF

Start where approvals are simplest: private property + permitted events, then expand to limited, controlled public pilots with attendants.

The moat

Permits + insurance + ops

We build the underwriting posture, telemetry, and operational system that makes public humanoids acceptable, scalable, and defensible.

The Robomodal platform

Robomodal is a deployment layer on top of commodity humanoid hardware—focused on safe operations, telemetry, compliance, and monetizable services in public life.

What ships first (v1)

  • Humanoid interface: greet, guide, upsell, answer common questions
  • Rolling smart cooler: refrigeration, locked compartments, weight sensors, internal camera
  • Payments: tap-to-pay + QR, with transaction logging and fraud alerts
  • Telemetry: speed, proximity events, override frequency, uptime, payments
  • Safety: speed limiter, e-stop, remote shutdown, attendant SOP

What it becomes (platform expansion)

  • Robotics-as-a-Service subscription for venues and districts
  • Sponsorship inventory for brands (events, districts, campuses)
  • Urban analytics dashboard (anonymized interaction and density signals)
  • Service modules: mobile charging, ticket scanning, concierge, delivery handoff
  • City integrations: reporting relay + public-service interfaces
We are not building “a vending robot.” We are building the first repeatable, insured, supervised operating framework for humanoids in public life. Retail is the wedge that funds iteration and generates real-world interaction data.

12-month deployment roadmap (SF first)

We win by shipping deployment infrastructure before competitors ship autonomy. The roadmap is designed to maximize learning and minimize catastrophic risk.

Phase 1 — Private property pilotsMonths 1–4
  • 2 units deployed in controlled, private environments
  • Human attendant required; geofenced routes
  • Telemetry pipeline + maintenance SOPs
  • Target: ≥30 transactions/day; 0 safety incidents
Phase 2 — Event permitsMonths 4–8
  • 3–5 permitted events (conferences, venues, festivals)
  • High-foot-traffic stress testing
  • Insurance posture validation
  • Target: ≥50 transactions/day at events
Phase 3 — Limited sidewalk pilotMonths 8–12
  • Controlled district pilot (geofence + attendant)
  • Formalized playbook with city stakeholders
  • Expand to 5–10 units based on validated ops
  • Target: ≥50 transactions/day; ≥90% uptime

Safety & compliance (the core moat)

Public humanoids require operational rigor: speed limits, incident response, insurance posture, ADA constraints, and stakeholder transparency. Robomodal is built to satisfy that reality.

Operational controls

Supervised by design

Attendant within 10–15 ft, defined intervention protocol, pre-shift inspection checklist, and incident logging.

Technical controls

Fail-safe behavior

Speed limiter firmware, collision sensing, visible e-stop, remote shutdown, and teleoperation fallback for edge cases.

Regulatory posture

Permit-ready framing

“Human-supervised mobile retail interface system” first: private property + events → limited sidewalk pilot after validation.

Incident response guarantees

  • ≤60s remote shutdown capability
  • Real-time monitoring of motion + proximity events
  • Automatic alerting on abnormal behavior or tampering
  • Documented post-incident review and remediation

Data privacy stance

  • Telemetry prioritized over identity
  • Anonymized interaction metrics (dwell time, distance, flow)
  • Clear signage and transparent policies
  • Encrypted storage + access controls

Unit economics (conservative)

The wedge is profitable retail + events. The platform layer compounds upside via sponsorship and RaaS. Our model is intentionally conservative and built around supervised operations.

Per-unit monthly costs (early)

  • Humanoid lease/depreciation: $2k–$4k
  • Attendant labor: $4k–$5k
  • Insurance allocation: $500+
  • Ops + storage + maintenance: $2k+

Early systems are labor-heavy by design. The path is reducing interventions and increasing throughput.

Per-unit daily revenue targets

  • Break-even (early): $350–$500/day
  • Events + sponsorship accelerate early profitability
  • Platform add-ons create step-function expansion

Retail is the wedge; the scalable value is the deployment playbook + data + enterprise pilots.

Invest in Robomodal

We’re raising a $200k–$400k pre-seed to secure pilot LOIs, insurance underwriting posture, legal classification guidance, the smart-cooler prototype, and initial supervised deployments in SF.

Use of funds

Legal + compliance • Insurance underwriting • Prototype cooler module • Pilot LOIs • Telemetry backend

Milestones

1 private property LOI • 1 event partner • underwriting interest • hardware shortlist • 2-unit pilot plan

Why now

Public humanoid deployment is under-defined—first mover sets precedent, trust, and a replicable playbook.

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