Methodology & Independence

Rovara exists to give the people who carry the risk — buyers, lessors, and insurers of robot fleets — an independent read on reliability, residual value, and deployment risk. Independence is not a tagline here; it is the asset. These are the rules that protect it.

We are never for sale to suppliers

No manufacturer, integrator, or distributor can buy a better assessment, a higher ranking, or placement inside our analysis. Where we earn revenue from sponsorship or referral, it rides on top of merit-based content, clearly labeled, and never touches the assessment itself. Rovara is a publication, not a storefront: no “buy” button decides what we conclude.

We go deep, not wide

Rovara covers one slice — the warehouse fleet economy — and covers it from primary documents: statutes, filings, the China supply side, field data. We would rather tell you what is actually confirmed about the few things that decide a fleet's cost and risk than score every robot ever made. When a widely repeated number does not survive a primary-source check, we say so and cut it.

We show our sources

Every material claim is cited. We read the China supply side directly — securities-firm research, regulatory filings, customs and company disclosures — and we verify names and numbers against the original source before publishing. Where a figure is uncertain, we say so.

We separate what we know from what we infer

Verified facts, modeled estimates, and informed judgment are labeled as what they are. We would rather publish a smaller, honest claim than a confident wrong one.

We generate our own data

Over time, Rovara builds proprietary reliability, residual, and loss-experience data through assessment and inspection — never by republishing a supplier's self-assessment as fact.