Over the past ten days we published three price guides built on the same source: the published catalogue of RobotLAB, the largest US distributor of service and cleaning robots. Pudu on 21 July, Gausium on 22 July, Bear Robotics on 27 July.
On 30 July I re-read the same catalogue to check a different question. The answer was not the one I expected. Seven of the eleven models we had recorded had moved, the median absolute move was 20.8%, and two of them had more than doubled.
This is a measurement, not an accusation. Dealers reprice. But if you are budgeting capital equipment from a published list, the size of these moves changes what that list is worth.
What moved, in eight to nine days
| Model | Our recorded price | 30 July | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gausium Vacuum 40 | $18,500 (22 Jul) | $42,000 | **+127.0%** |
| Gausium Beetle | $12,995 (22 Jul) | $28,000 | **+115.5%** |
| Gausium Scrubber 75P | $75,750 (22 Jul) | $95,880 | +26.6% |
| Pudu KettyBot Pro | $13,990 (21 Jul) | $14,000 | +0.1% |
| Pudu BellaBot Pro | $16,000 (21 Jul) | $16,000 | 0% |
| Gausium Scrubber 50 Pro | $43,000 (22 Jul) | $43,000 | 0% |
| Bear Robotics Servi+ | $13,990 (27 Jul) | $13,990 | 0% |
| Bear Robotics Servi | $11,990 (27 Jul) | $9,990 | −16.7% |
| Pudu T300 | $26,500 (21 Jul) | $21,000 | −20.8% |
| Gausium Phantas 1.3 | $38,500 (22 Jul) | $29,500 | −23.4% |
| Pudu CC1 Pro | $34,000 (21 Jul) | $24,000 | −29.4% |
Four models fell, three rose, four held. There is no single direction here — which is the first useful finding. A list that only ratcheted upward would look like inflation or tariffs. A list that moves 100%+ in both directions inside nine days looks like something else: a catalogue that is being maintained per-SKU, at the pace of whatever supply, promotion or configuration change sits behind each one.
The monthly subscription figures moved further. Pudu's BellaBot Pro went from $899/month to $399/month, a 55.6% cut, against an unchanged $16,000 purchase price. The CC1 Pro dropped 45.9% monthly against a 29.4% purchase cut. Gausium moved the other way: Vacuum 40 from $849 to $1,409 a month, up 66.0%.
Caveat, stated plainly. I am matching on model name, not part number. Where the catalogue now shows a differently configured SKU under the same name — a bundled dock, a different battery, a Pro variant — some of these deltas are configuration, not repricing. The Gausium Beetle and Vacuum 40 jumps in particular are large enough that a configuration change is the more likely explanation than a 115% price rise. That possibility is itself the point: if a buyer cannot tell repricing from reconfiguration by reading the list, the list is not a budgeting instrument.
The same seller, two storefronts, on the same day
RobotLAB runs a marketing catalogue at robotlab.com and a transactional Shopify storefront branded "Robot Depot by RobotLAB." Both were live on 30 July. Where a model name matches exactly on both, here is the gap.
| Model | robotlab.com catalogue | Robot Depot (add to cart) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pudu Pudubot2 | $14,995 | $6,499 | −56.7% |
| Pudu BellaBot | $14,500 | $7,399 | −49.0% |
| Bear Robotics Servi+ | $13,990 | $7,399 | −47.1% |
| Pudu KettyBot Pro | $14,000 | $8,399 | −40.0% |
| LionsBot R3 Vac | $13,000 | $19,500 | **+50.0%** |
The Robot Depot cart reports USD, so this is not a currency artefact. Four of five delivery and service robots are 40–57% cheaper on the checkout storefront than on the catalogue page selling the same machine. The fifth runs 50% the other way.
The R3 Vac is worth isolating because it appears at four different numbers on one seller's web presence on one day: $13,000 on the catalogue card, $22,275 on the model's own product page, "starting price $13,000" inside that same page, and $19,500 with a working add-to-cart. A 71% spread, no configuration difference stated.
What this means for a purchase order
A published dealer price is a starting position, not a quote. On this evidence its half-life is measured in days, and the same organisation will show you two prices at once if you open two of its pages.
Check the checkout storefront, not the marketing page. In four of five matched cases the number attached to a functioning cart was 40–57% below the number attached to a "request a quote" button. That is a large enough gap to be worth five minutes of searching before any call.
Screenshot the page you budgeted from, with the date. Every figure in the left column of the first table above exists only because we published it with a date attached. Without that, none of these moves would be visible to anyone.
Do not average across sources. Averaging $13,000 and $22,275 produces $17,637.50, a number that describes nothing. Ask which configuration each corresponds to.
The broader pattern here is one we have written about before: cobot and service-robot list prices are largely hidden, and the dealer catalogue has quietly become the industry's public price-discovery mechanism by default. This data says that mechanism is noisy. For the subscription side of the same problem — what happens when the number that moves is the one you are locked into for 36 months — see our analysis of RaaS repricing risk.
Sources
- RobotLAB store catalogue — read 30 July 2026
- Robot Depot by RobotLAB — product feed and cart, read 30 July 2026
- RobotLAB LionsBot R3 Vac product page — read 30 July 2026
- RobotLAB LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro listing — read 30 July 2026
- GrabaRobot, Pudu Robotics Price Guide, 21 July 2026
- GrabaRobot, Gausium Cleaning Robot Price Guide, 22 July 2026
- GrabaRobot, Bear Robotics Servi Price Guide, 27 July 2026
*Method: model-name matching against figures we published on the dates shown, all from the same distributor. Percentages are computed on purchase price unless stated. Where a SKU may have been reconfigured, it is flagged above rather than smoothed away.*
