Deployment

A deployment is a robot doing real economic work at a named operator site, with a published source confirming the operation. It is not a shipment, a sale, a press demo, a manufacturing run inside the maker's own facility, an announced future plan, or a memorandum of understanding. The registry's verified deployment count is restricted to operations that meet this bar at the time of listing.

The distinction matters because public counts of "deployed" robots routinely include all of the above. A figure of 20,000 humanoid robots "deployed" typically reflects production volume or shipment volume across multiple categories, not robots performing economic work at customer sites. DEPLOY's smaller, stricter number is the artifact of the verification bar, not an undercount.