Workshop notes
Notes from building a British robotics company, each one complete and dated.
Designed in Britain, answerable in Britain.
Notes from building a British robotics company. When we work through something worth explaining — a design decision, a privacy principle, a piece of evidence — we write it up and publish it whole.
The notes
Issued 25 July 2026.
- AVM-WR-021/01
Privacy & data
Why every Avanti robot has a shutter you close with your hand
A privacy setting is a promise. A shutter is a fact — so the camera gets a piece of hardware you operate yourself.
- AVM-WR-021/02
Engineering
The robot works without the cloud. Here is what that actually means.
Where we draw the line between the robot’s own job and the platform’s job, and what that costs us.
- AVM-WR-021/03
The UK robotics market
What 161 exhibitor profiles showed us about robots for the British home
One dated study, its finding, and a plain statement of where it stops being evidence.
- AVM-WR-021/04
Engineering
How we update a robot without bricking it
Signed updates, automatic rollback, and staged rollout — and why refusing an update is the correct behaviour.
- AVM-WR-021/05
Privacy & data
Designing Avanti Care for the person who lives with it
The buyer is usually the son or daughter. The user is Margaret. We design for Margaret.
- AVM-WR-021/06
Engineering
One platform for a household and a fifty-robot fleet
Two audiences on one platform: the technical argument, and the discipline it imposes.
- AVM-WR-021/07
The UK robotics market
Fleet software assumes a thousand robots and an IT department
The gap we found for smaller operators, what our study supports, and what it does not.
The three threads
- Engineering
- How the platform and the robots are built.
- Privacy & data
- Our thinking on data, consent and the camera in your home.
- The UK robotics market
- What is happening in British and global robotics.