RobotAtom decision tool · Experimental
Can your charging windows cover the work?
Compare two budgets: time on compatible chargers and time available to each robot. No account or contact details required.
Illustrative inputs, not any manufacturer’s specification. Replace these with your own operating evidence. Values stay in page memory and clear on refresh; they are not sent to RobotAtom.
Use one group with comparable duty and batteries.
The repeated daily horizon, at most 24 hours.
Exclude charging and travel to the charger.
Use a measured or provider-agreed value for your load and reserve policy.
Match the same battery charge band as the runtime, not a different full-charge rating.
Robot time only; exclude charging time already entered above.
An integer. Zero is allowed to expose the missing infrastructure.
Within the daily operating window, after planned closures. Do not assume every idle minute is accessible.
Your charging-time budget
16.0 charger-hours required against 32.0 available.
1 chargers is the arithmetic lower bound for these assumptions—not a purchase recommendation.
Per robot: 14.3 hours of work, charging and docking against 16 hours available.
No average charger-time deficit in these inputs. No average robot-time deficit in these inputs.
Even when both budgets fit, simultaneous charging, blocked access or a failed charger can make the schedule infeasible. Check time-stamped demand and charging events with your provider.
What the calculation does—and leaves out
This is a steady-state, repeated-day budget for one homogeneous robot group. Recharge equivalents = robots × productive hours ÷ productive runtime per interval. Charger demand = recharge equivalents × charging hours. Available charger time = chargers × usable hours. Robot time = productive hours + per-robot recharge equivalents × (charging hours + docking minutes ÷ 60).
Fractional recharge equivalents represent average replenishment across repeated days. The model does not spend an initially full battery to make a single shift appear feasible. It does not model battery state, charge curves, queues, peak demand, charger failures, maintenance, electricity supply or safe installation. A budget with no arithmetic deficit is not a validated schedule.
Adopters get a visible infrastructure gap. Providers get consistent workload and charge-band assumptions for engineering a complete solution. RobotAtom owns this tool and uses defined requirements to shape real-world deployments; it does not certify a fleet through this calculator.