Robot leasing and robotics as a service financing
The robot is affordable. The capital request is not
Most robotics projects do not die on the shop floor. They die in the capital approval meeting, competing against every other line on the budget.
- We lease the robot instead of financing a purchase: deploy the cell now and pay for it across the years it actually serves your operation.
- We own the asset and carry the burden of ownership, turning a capital request into an operating cost outside the CapEx queue.
- We are independent of every robot and warehouse technology maker. You pick the robotics system, we finance it.
- We fund the delivery, installation, and project management costs.
Your roadmap, any brand, complete flexibility.
Why robotics as a service beats buying outright
Robotics moves faster than any capital cycle it is funded by. Leasing keeps you deploying without betting the balance sheet on a machine that may be a generation behind in three years.
Robots we finance and lease
CHG-MERIDIAN leases robots across every major maker, from a single collaborative arm to a fleet of mobile robots running a distribution center.
Robots we lease include:
Six axis arms for welding, machine tending, palletizing, and material removal. The workhorses of automated production, and usually the largest single robotics line on a capital plan.
Cobots work alongside people without caging, which makes them the usual entry point into automation. Leasing suits them well, because most companies start with one and want the option to add more.
AMRs navigate a facility on their own and scale by adding units rather than rebuilding infrastructure. That makes fleet size a moving target, and an agreement that can flex with it matters.
AGVs follow fixed routes and suit repeatable, high volume movement. They are a long life asset tied to a specific layout, which is exactly the kind of commitment leasing is built for.
Piece picking, bin picking, and vision guided handling systems, where the technology is improving fast enough that owning outright is a real risk.
The robot is rarely the whole cost. Cell design, safety systems, tooling, and integration can be financed as part of the same agreement rather than as a separate capital line.
Mixed makers and phased rollouts are normal for CHG-MERIDIAN. You choose the robot the work requires, and we structure one agreement around it.
Robotics as a service with an independent lessor, not a manufacturer
Most robotics as a service offers come from the robot makers themselves. You subscribe to their robots, on their terms, and the model locks you to one vendor for the life of the deployment. It works, but the choice is made for you.
We are not a robot maker, so our version is different. You choose the robots, from any vendor or several at once, and we provide the best financial solution and the lifecycle management behind it. You get the economics of robotics as a service without handing your automation roadmap to a single supplier.
What's included in a robotics lease?
Robot maker RaaS ties your automation roadmap to one supplier's catalog. We finance whatever you choose, from as many vendors as the work requires, so the roadmap stays yours.
A robot arm is often a minority of the project cost. Safety fencing, end effectors, vision, and integration make up the rest. We finance the deployed cell rather than a line item from it.
Since it can take over three years for labor savings to generate any ROI on a robotics rollout, the financing term should match that ROI horizon rather than the equipment's useful life.
Automation almost always starts small and proves itself before it scales. We write agreements that let a successful pilot expand without going back to the start of the process.
Robotics deployments sprawl across sites and vendors fast. tesma keeps every unit, contract, and cost in one view, so nobody has to reconstruct what is deployed where.
Used robots are a specialist market most manufacturers cannot access. We plan the exit at the start and handle the return, remarketing, or recycling ourselves.
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Frequently asked questions: robot leasing and robotics as a service
Robot leasing lets you deploy industrial robots, cobots, AGVs, and AMRs without buying them. You pay for the use of the robot across its working life. CHG-MERIDIAN owns the asset and carries the residual value risk, so a robotics project becomes an operating cost rather than a capital request.
Robotics as a service, also called robot as a service or RaaS, means paying to use robots rather than owning them. Most RaaS offers come from robot makers and tie you to their catalog. CHG-MERIDIAN is independent, so you choose the robots from any vendor and we provide the financing and lifecycle management behind them.
CHG-MERIDIAN leases industrial robot arms, collaborative robots, autonomous mobile robots, automated guided vehicles, and picking and handling systems — robots from every major maker and from specialist vendors.
In a robotics project, the robot is often a minority of the total cost. CHG-MERIDIAN can include cell design, safety systems, tooling, and integration in the same lease agreement, rather than funding them as a separate capital line.
No. CHG-MERIDIAN does not build or sell robots and has no partnership that steers you toward one brand. You pick the robot that fits the work, and the lease is built around your choice.
Yes. Most robotics deployments start with one cell and expand once the pilot proves out. CHG-MERIDIAN structures the lease so a successful pilot can grow into a fleet without renegotiating from scratch.
At the end of a CHG-MERIDIAN robotics lease, you can return the robot, extend the agreement, or purchase it. If you return the robot, CHG-MERIDIAN manages the remarketing or recycling — so you are not left trying to sell used robotics equipment yourself.
Yes. CHG-MERIDIAN runs standardized robot leasing and contract management across 35 countries, so a cell proven in one plant can be rolled out in another market under the same process.
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