About
A pseudonymous record of the small, expensive, mostly-failing project of dressing humanoid robots.
Robodrip is a pseudonymous essay site about humanoid fashion, written by an observer who has spent the last several years close enough to this category to have opinions but not commercially involved enough to need to be polite about them. I publish here because I think the field is worth thinking carefully about and because almost no one else is.
I am not a journalist, an analyst, or a brand. I'm a person with a long-running interest in the intersection of soft goods, industrial design, and emerging hardware, who has watched a small number of brands attempt to build something serious in this category and a much larger number attempt and fail. The site exists to make a record of what I'm seeing.
Why pseudonymous
I write under a pseudonym because some of what I'd say is uncomfortable for the brands and operators I know personally, and because I am close enough to the field that named criticism would damage relationships that have nothing to do with this writing. Pseudonymous is not anonymous; if you know enough people in this field, you can probably guess. I'd prefer if you didn't put it in writing if you do.
If a piece on this site has a factual error, please write to the email below. I'll correct the piece publicly and credit the source if you're willing.
What this site is not
It is not a brand index, a product review site, or a marketing channel for any operator in this category. I do not accept advertising, sponsored content, or paid placement. If a brand or person is named on this site, the naming is editorial.
It is also not a hardware site. Coverage of humanoid platforms themselves is well served by other publications. I write about the apparel question and the operations question; the engineering of the robots themselves is mostly out of scope.
Cadence
Essays publish irregularly. The last entry was when I had something worth writing; the next entry will be when I do again. I don't keep a schedule and I don't run a newsletter.
Contact
Tips, corrections, source material, and disagreement are welcome. Pitch emails for brand coverage will be ignored. I'm not the right outlet for that.