Brownfield reality
Real care homes are narrow corridors, legacy call systems, and shift patterns set years ago — not the open, modern floorplans robots are designed for.
RobotReady™ for care
Readiness infrastructure for robots in care.
RobotReady connects facility readiness, robot readiness, and Value Validation stage evidence into one framework, so care homes and robotics vendors can deploy robots with confidence — not guesswork.
Readiness checkDeployment overview
In progress- 01Facility sideLeadership & staffReviewed ✓
- 02Robot sideReadiness fitReviewed ✓
- 03Brownfield gapCorridors, IT, shifts2 flags
- 04Value Validation1 site, 6 weeksCollecting
- 05Go / no-goScale decisionPending
Evidence captured42%
Built forCare homesRobotics vendorsResearch partners
Why now
Care robots changed.
Readiness assessment didn't.
Robots built for open, standardized floorplans are being asked to work in real care homes — existing buildings, established routines, and staff who never designed their workflows around a machine. Readiness gets assumed on both sides, and adoption fails quietly.
Readiness runs both ways
A ready facility with the wrong robot fails. A good robot in an unready facility fails too. Most adoption efforts only check one side.
No shared standard
Facility readiness and robot readiness are judged separately, informally, and inconsistently — with no common criteria either side can point to.
How it works
From first conversation to a confident deployment decision.
Co-design workshop
Refine facility-side and robot-side criteria together, with the care home, the vendor, and RobotReady in the room.
Facility assessment
Evaluate leadership, staff acceptance, workflows, governance, and physical space against the RobotReady Facility Index.
Robot assessment
Evaluate physical adaptability, robustness, interoperability, and safety fit against the Robot Readiness Index.
Value Validation stage
Run both assessments at a real, existing site — not a lab — and capture what actually breaks.
Joint findings
Score, compare, and document results in a shared report both the facility and the vendor can act on.
Go / no-go decision
Leave with evidence-backed guidance: scale, adjust scope, or stop — before a costly full rollout.
The framework
One framework,
two sides of readiness.
01 / Facility
F
Facility Readiness Index
- Leadership & vision for robot adoption
- Staff acceptance & workforce readiness
- Care workflows & operations fit
- Governance — data, privacy, regulation
- Physical infrastructure & space
- Culture & resident/family acceptance
02 / Robot
R
Robot Readiness Index
- Physical adaptability to existing spaces
- Robustness in unpredictable settings
- Interoperability with legacy systems
- Human-robot interaction for all users
- Safety & certification for brownfield sites
- Cost & maintenance fit
Why RobotReady is different
Not a checklist.
Not a sales pitch.
Two-sided,
not one-sided
Most readiness efforts assess only the robot or the organization. RobotReady scores both against the same real deployment.
Built on
brownfield sites
Every criterion is developed and tested through Value Validation at real, operating care homes — not idealized test environments.
Research-grade
rigor
Academic validation sits behind the methodology — not just internal opinion.
Neutral by
design
RobotReady doesn't sell robots or run care homes. It assesses fit, so the judgment is one either side can trust.
Community
Proud to work alongside Women in Robotics Switzerland.
RobotReady is built in collaboration with Women in Robotics Switzerland, supporting a stronger, more diverse robotics community.
Switzerland
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Bring facility readiness, robot readiness, and Value Validation evidence into one framework built for real care homes.
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