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Original research from the Robot AutoTrader team on the UK robot secondary market: depreciation curves, resale value drivers, adoption barriers, and emerging platform economics.
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27 September 2026 · Robot AutoTrader Research
Analysis of 847 used robot vacuum listings across the UK secondary market between January 2024 and September 2026 finds that battery health is the single strongest predictor of resale price, outweighing age, brand, and m…
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27 September 2026 · Robot AutoTrader Research
Between January 2024 and September 2026, the humanoid robot industry crossed a threshold that renders most prior competitive analysis obsolete: multiple platforms moved from prototype demonstrations to commissioned manuf…
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27 September 2026 · Robot AutoTrader Research
This study compares resale value trajectories for the two most actively traded quadruped robot platforms in the UK secondary market: the Unitree Go2 (consumer-research segment, RRP £1,100–£2,800) and Boston Dynamics Spot…
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27 September 2026 · Robot AutoTrader Research
This study analyses resale price trajectories for seven robot categories across the UK secondary market from January 2024 to September 2026. Consumer robots depreciate similarly to consumer electronics, losing 35–55% of …
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27 September 2026 · Robot AutoTrader Research
Used collaborative robot arms offer UK small and medium enterprises a capital efficiency advantage of 40–60% against new pricing, yet adoption remains limited by persistent barriers: underestimation of integration cost (…
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