The robot’s core runs on the robot. If your broadband dies tonight, it still does its job.
Underneath that sentence is a line we had to draw somewhere. On the robot’s side: navigation, patrol, monitoring, fall detection, anomaly detection and the safety responses. On the platform’s side: live video to your phone, alerts reaching you, fleet dashboards, and updates.
The line is drawn so that nothing safety-related sits on the far side of a broadband connection. A robot that stops watching for a fall because a router rebooted has failed at the one moment it was bought for.
That choice costs us. On-device work needs capable hardware, which sets a floor under the price. Behaviour changes have to be reconciled when a robot comes back online rather than simply read from a server. And we carry the awkward duty of telling you which features genuinely pause when the link drops — live video does, because live video is the link.
What does not pause is the job. Alerts queue and send the moment the connection returns.