# About DEPLOY

By Ben Smith, Editor

DEPLOY is a registry of physical AI. We track the companies building robots, the robot models themselves, the AI brains that run them, and the deployments, incidents, and regulations around them.

Every record is a canonical, citable address for the thing it names. The data shape stays consistent so a reader, a researcher, or an AI agent can find the same field in the same place across every record of the same type.

## Editorial discipline

DEPLOY draws an explicit line between what has been verified against primary sources and what is reported as company-claimed. The distinction is part of the data, not a footnote: a field labeled verified means we have a source we can stand behind; a field labeled claimed means a company said it and we have not independently confirmed.

For the bar behind verified deployments, incident kinds, and the rest of the DEPLOY vocabulary, see [how DEPLOY verifies](/methodology.md) and [the glossary](/glossary.md).

## What we cover

- [Companies](/companies.md): manufacturers, operators, and AI developers in physical AI.
- [Robot models](/models.md): humanoids, robotaxis, drones, delivery robots, quadrupeds, and other physical-AI platforms.
- [Brains](/brains.md): the AI driver stacks, foundation models, and frameworks that run on robot hardware.
- [Deployments](/verified-deployments.md): robots operating at named, sourced locations.
- [Incidents](/incidents.md): a structured, append-only ledger of collisions, injuries, recalls, regulatory actions, malfunctions, and other reportable events.
- [Regulations](/regulations.md): permits, operational restrictions, safety standards, and other rules governing physical-AI deployment.
- [Locations](/locations.md): a hierarchical geography (country, state, region, city) so each deployment and regulation lives at a real place.

## Masthead

**Ben Smith**, Editor. Editorial direction, coverage decisions, and corrections.

Contributions to specific records carry their own source attributions on the record itself. The masthead names who is responsible for the registry as a whole.

## Corrections and contact

If you find a record that is wrong, please tell us. The incident and regulation ledgers are append-only, so corrections take the shape of a new status event on the record rather than a silent edit. The full correction procedure lives at [/corrections](/corrections).

General contact: hello@deploy.report

## Citing DEPLOY

Researchers, journalists, and analysts are welcome to cite DEPLOY. The verified-vs-claimed distinction is part of what is being cited; preserve it in your citation and your reporting inherits the same discipline. Ready-to-copy formats for APA, MLA, Chicago, and BibTeX live at [/cite](/cite.md). Structured access, REST endpoints, .md mirrors, and bulk export are documented at [/data](/data.md).

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