KEENON Robotics is one of the two or three largest makers of restaurant and hotel service robots in the world, and like most of them it publishes specifications but not prices. Every number a US buyer sees comes from a reseller. We checked the US channel on August 2, 2026 and found that the resellers do not agree with each other — and one does not agree with itself.
Listed prices, August 2, 2026
| Model | Type | RobotLAB | Knoxlabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DinerBot T8 | Food running, 20 kg | "Contact for pricing" | — |
| DinerBot T9 | Food running, 40 kg | — | **$17,220.00** |
| DinerBot T10 | Delivery + promotions, 40 kg | **$13,500** (store page) / **$18,400** (hospitality page) | **$20,580.00** |
| ButlerBot W3 | Locker delivery, 20 kg | **$29,600** | **$20,580.00** |
| KleenBot C40 | Commercial floor cleaning | — | **$20,580.00** |
| CourierBot S100 | Industrial courier, 100 kg+ | — | **$20,580.00** |
Monthly Robot-as-a-Service rates at RobotLAB, all on 36-month terms: T10 $619/mo (hospitality page) or $542/mo (store page), W3 $989/mo.
Finding 1: one robot, three prices, 52% apart
The DinerBot T10 is listed at $13,500, $18,400 and $20,580 on the same day — a 52.4% spread from low to high. The uncomfortable part is that two of those three numbers come from the same seller. RobotLAB's dedicated T10 store page states a purchase price of $13,500 in the body copy and repeats it in the page's meta description, while the header of that same page reads "Starting at $18,400," which is also the figure on RobotLAB's hospitality catalog page. That is a 36.3% gap inside one dealer's own website.
This is the same pattern we documented for temi a day earlier, where the body price, the meta-description price and a second catalog page gave three different answers. It is not a one-off.
Finding 2: four unrelated robots priced identically
Knoxlabs lists the T10, the W3, the C40 and the S100 at exactly $20,580.00 each, all in stock. These are not variants of one machine. Per KEENON's own specifications, the T10 carries 40 kg on open trays, the W3 carries 20 kg in four lockable compartments, the C40 is a floor-cleaning machine, and the S100 is an industrial courier rated at 100 kg+ with 230 mm of ground clearance. Four different chassis, four different jobs, one price.
We read that as a catalog placeholder rather than four coincidentally identical quotes. It matters for a practical reason: a placeholder looks exactly like a price to a scraper, an aggregator, or an AI-generated shopping answer. Treat any single listed number in this category as an opening position.
Finding 3: payload does not drive the price
At RobotLAB, the ButlerBot W3 costs $29,600 against $18,400 for the DinerBot T10 — 60.9% more for half the rated payload (20 kg vs 40 kg). On a dollars-per-kilogram basis that is $1,480/kg for the W3 against $460/kg for the T10.
That is not a pricing error. As we found when we compared service robots by venue, moving from a restaurant to a hotel means buying locks, compartment isolation and elevator integration, not capacity. The W3's official specs — 20 kg total across four independently lockable compartments, 70 cm minimum passage width, up to 12 hours of battery — describe a machine sold for security and autonomy in a building, not for how much it can carry. If you are comparing quotes on payload alone, you will conclude the hotel robot is overpriced. It is priced for a different problem.
Finding 4: the RaaS multiple is remarkably consistent
Across RobotLAB's hospitality catalog, the 36-month monthly rate lands in a very tight band relative to the purchase price:
| Machine | Purchase | Monthly | Monthly as % of purchase | 36 months total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEENON T10 | $18,400 | $619 | 3.36% | $22,284 (121.1%) |
| KEENON W3 | $29,600 | $989 | 3.34% | $35,604 (120.3%) |
| LionsBot R3 Vac | $13,000 | $439 | 3.38% | $15,804 (121.6%) |
| LionsBot R3 Scrub Pro | $31,250 | $1,049 | 3.36% | $37,764 (120.8%) |
| Pudu FlashBot Max | $20,000 | $669 | 3.35% | $24,084 (120.4%) |
| CenoBots L3 Scrubber | $24,000 | $809 | 3.37% | $29,124 (121.4%) |
Six machines from four manufacturers, and every one prices its monthly at 3.34–3.38% of the purchase price, landing at 120–122% of the cash price over the full 36 months. In other words, at this dealer, renting costs about a fifth more than buying, before you count what the contract says about renewals — and the contract terms are where the real risk sits.
The one pair that breaks the pattern is the T10 store page again: $542/month against $13,500 is 4.01%, which matches neither the dealer's own ratio nor the $18,400 figure. The most likely explanation is that the price and the monthly on that page were updated at different times — which is a good reason to ask for both numbers in the same written quote.
KEENON specifications that actually matter
From KEENON's own product pages:
| Model | Total load | Min. passage width | Battery |
|---|---|---|---|
| DinerBot T8 | 20 kg (44 lb), 34 kg machine | 55 cm (21.65") | up to 15 h, 4 h charge |
| DinerBot T9 | 40 kg (88 lb), 10 kg per layer | — | up to 18 h, 4 h charge |
| DinerBot T10 | 40 kg (88 lb) | 59 cm (23") | 9–12 h |
| ButlerBot W3 | 20 kg (44 lb), 48 kg machine | 70 cm (27") | up to 12 h |
| CourierBot S100 | 100 kg+ | — | 6 h |
The T8 is the one to look at for tight rooms: 55 cm minimum passage is the narrowest in the line, at the cost of half the T10's payload.
What we could not verify
Circulating prices for the T8 ($5,500 and $11,000) and T9 ($11,500) trace to two storefronts our connection could not open — both returned HTTP 429 — so we are not using them. Separately, AI-generated search summaries attributed a T8 at $17,000 and a T9 at $29,500 to a dealer whose published pricing pages we then read in full: they list temi and Robocore machines and no KEENON products at any price. Another summary put the W3 at $19,600 at Knoxlabs, whose own storefront returns $20,580.00. We wrote about that pattern separately.
Practical advice
Get the purchase price, the monthly, the term length and the model number in one written quote on one date. In this category, quoting a robot from a web page is quoting a number that may not survive the next page load. For the wider market, see our delivery robot category page.
Sources
- RobotLAB — Keenon T10 store page (read August 2, 2026)
- RobotLAB — Hospitality robots catalog
- Knoxlabs — KEENON collection (storefront product data, currency confirmed USD)
- KEENON Robotics — official product specifications
