{
 "title": "Advertising & wayfinding robots: buy vs rent vs hire, prices side by side",
 "url": "https://whirrwork.com/compare/buy-vs-rent-vs-hire/advertising-guide-robot/",
 "job": "advertising-guide-robot",
 "updated": "2026-10-27",
 "license": "CC BY 4.0",
 "attribution": "Whirrwork (whirrwork.com), from the linked sources",
 "gate": {
  "rule": ">= 2 of buy/rent/service have >= 2 hand-tagged sourced prices",
  "counts": {
   "buy": 2,
   "rent": 2,
   "service": 0
  },
  "pass": true
 },
 "notes": [
  "List prices published by sellers, not quotes.",
  "Rent = RaaS / lease / subscription per month; \"per year\" fees divided by 12 in the summary only.",
  "months_of_rent_equal_to_purchase = buy / rent, computed only for the same robot from the same seller (same page).",
  "No currency conversion, no scaling, no Whirrwork estimate."
 ],
 "summary": {
  "buy": {
   "currency": "USD",
   "low": 14000,
   "high": 14000,
   "n": 2,
   "other_currency_rows": 0
  },
  "rent": {
   "currency": "USD",
   "low": 479,
   "high": 479,
   "n": 1,
   "other_currency_rows": 1
  },
  "service": null
 },
 "same_robot_pairs": [],
 "receipts": [
  {
   "mode": "buy",
   "low": 14000,
   "high": 14000,
   "currency": "USD",
   "unit": "per robot",
   "region": "US",
   "description": "Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/wayfinding robot with 18.5-inch ad display, reseller purchase price (RobotLAB store page; RaaS from $479/month also listed; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26)",
   "source_url": "https://www.robotlab.com/store/kettybot-pro/",
   "as_of": "2026-10-26"
  },
  {
   "mode": "buy",
   "low": 14000,
   "high": 14000,
   "currency": "USD",
   "unit": "per robot",
   "region": "US",
   "description": "Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/promotion robot, reseller price including first year of PUDU CARE (Apollo Office Systems catalog; also $319.20/month on a 60-month lease; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26)",
   "source_url": "https://www.apolloofficesystems.com/pudu-catalog",
   "as_of": "2026-10-26"
  },
  {
   "mode": "rent",
   "low": 479,
   "high": 479,
   "currency": "USD",
   "unit": "per month",
   "region": "US",
   "description": "Pudu KettyBot Pro reception/promotion robot, reseller RaaS subscription (RobotLAB store page; page undated, retrieved 2026-10-26)",
   "source_url": "https://www.robotlab.com/store/kettybot-pro/",
   "as_of": "2026-10-26"
  },
  {
   "mode": "rent",
   "low": 1250,
   "high": 1250,
   "currency": "CAD",
   "unit": "per month",
   "region": "CA",
   "description": "Pudu KettyBot Pro (18.5\" advertising display + delivery), RaaS via MaxAVT (Canadian Pudu RaaS reseller), standard 36-month agreement incl. deployment, training, maintenance, OTA updates and remote monitoring",
   "source_url": "https://www.maxavt.com/raas/",
   "as_of": "2026-10-27"
  }
 ],
 "calculator": "https://whirrwork.com/tools/buy-rent-or-hire/?job=advertising-guide-robot",
 "api": "https://whirrwork.com/api/v1/buy-rent-or-hire?job=advertising-guide-robot"
}