Ownership looks $100,000 cheaper than RaaS in Agility Robotics' illustrative five-year customer-payment model.

Then the denominator arrives.

Using the source research's shared tote-moving scenario, the difference is about 6.8 cents per accepted move. At Agility's own illustrative $30.50 hourly labor rate, that equals roughly eight seconds of human time.

If ownership required eight additional intervention seconds per accepted move, the disclosed price gap would be absorbed. This is a break-even threshold, not observed Digit 5 performance.

The useful pilot card is small:
1. scheduled and productive time;
2. attempted and accepted moves;
3. intervention and recovery seconds;
4. the intervener's loaded labor cost; and
5. who carries repair, replacement and downtime.

The cheapest invoice may still win. It has to win after the rescue enters the ledger.

Full story and sources: https://iamrobin.ai/binary/stories/eight-seconds-can-erase-the-gap/

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