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About Rent Humanoid

Rent Humanoid explains when renting, leasing or a paid pilot makes more sense than buying a robot, and how to prepare a site for one. The Humanoid Group publishes it for teams testing automation.

Sources we rely on

IFRS 16 Leases — IFRS Foundation.
The international accounting standard for leases, which puts most leases over a year on the lessee's balance sheet.
Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER): overview — Health and Safety Executive.
Explains duties for equipment used at work, whether owned or not, and for anyone supplying it for hire.
Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products — EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union.
EU rules on who is liable when a defective product causes harm, rewritten to include software.
Guidelines 3/2019 on processing of personal data through video devices — European Data Protection Board.
EU guidance on handling video of people captured by devices, from warning signs to retention and access requests.
Robotics: Hazard Recognition — Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Points to OSHA and NIOSH material on how people are hurt around robots, including during maintenance work.
World Robotics 2025 – Service Robots (press release) — International Federation of Robotics.
IFR service robot figures, including growth in robot-as-a-service and a shift towards rental agreements.

Renting vs Buying — When a short-term rental makes sense, and when owning the robot is the better path.
Questions to Ask — Duration, support, insurance and site readiness: what to agree before any rental begins.
Rental Use Cases — Events, pilots and seasonal peaks: where a rented humanoid tends to earn its place.
Preparing Your Site — Space, power, connectivity and people: getting your venue or floor ready for a rented robot.
How Rental Is Priced — Daily, monthly and event rates explained, with the cost lines to compare when rental quotes arrive.
Robots for Events — Hiring humanoids for trade shows, launches and exhibitions, from stand design to crowd safety.
Rental Contract Clauses — The clauses to read closely in a robot rental agreement, from damage and data to operators and cancellation.
Insuring a Rented Robot — The cover to arrange when you hire a robot: damage to the robot, injury to people and the gaps between.
From Rental to Purchase — Moving from a rented or pilot robot to ownership, with rent-to-own terms and the evidence to gather first.
Latest updates — Renting and subscribing are moving from novelty to common practice. These figures and dated updates show how prices, rental firms, lenders and service models are shifting, and what that means before you sign.
About us — What we cover, how we source every figure, and who publishes this site.

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