# Robot Ops

> Practical AI for small and mid-size manufacturers: machine vision inspection and AI-powered workflow automation. Robot Ops designs, builds, and supports systems one station or one workflow at a time, around the equipment you already run — scoped to a payback you can verify. Serving the Mid-Atlantic and New England.

## Machine Vision Inspection

- [Machine Vision Inspection](https://www.robotops.com/services/machine-vision): AI-based defect detection, measurement, robot guidance, and code/label reading — proven on your actual parts before you commit, deployed one station at a time.

## Agentic AI Systems

- [Agentic AI Systems](https://www.robotops.com/services/agentic-ai): AI assistants for quality documentation (CAPA/8D), maintenance knowledge, quoting, supplier-document checks, and plain-English answers from ERP/MES data. Trained on your data, run privately, with a person in the loop.

## Applications

- [Applications](https://www.robotops.com/applications): Worked examples of AI machine vision on the shop floor across manufacturing, assembly, and packaging.

## Articles

- [Articles](https://www.robotops.com/resources/blog): Writing on machine vision, agentic AI, and getting automation to actually work in small- and mid-size plants.

## FAQs

- [FAQs](https://www.robotops.com/faqs): Straight answers on cost, payback, getting started, machine vision, AI agents and data, and working with us.

## About

- [About](https://www.robotops.com/about): A team of robotics, computer-vision, AI, and software engineers putting enterprise-grade automation in reach of small and mid-size manufacturers.

## Contact

- [Contact](https://www.robotops.com/contact): Tell us the part, the defect, or the workflow. Free consultation; an engineer replies within one business day. hello@robotops.com · 855.ROBOT.OP.

## Blog posts

- [Boston Robotics Summit 2026: notes from the floor](https://www.robotops.com/resources/blog/boston-robotics-summit-2026-recap): A devops read on the 2026 Robotics Summit: the 99.9% reliability wall, Bazel-based CI, embodied AI, mature simulation, and why it all comes back to telemetry.
- [Reducing ROS2 troubleshooting time from hours to minutes](https://www.robotops.com/resources/blog/reducing-ros2-troubleshooting-time): ROS2 traces capture everything happening inside a robot. The problem is turning gigabytes of telemetry into a root cause before the day ends.