About Botler
Robots, on demand. Melbourne.
What it is
Botler rents capable humanoid robots by the hour. You describe a job — clean the house, assemble three wardrobes, help move boxes on Saturday — or pick the robot you already like, and the app answers with one arrival time and one price. Everything underneath that answer (which physical unit is free, which depot it is standing in, its battery, its maintenance window, how far it has to travel) is worked out for you and never handed back as a question.
A booking runs on an hourly rate with a two-hour minimum and a flat $20 delivery fee. You can book for now, schedule a date, or repeat the same job weekly. While a robot is on its way you can follow it; while it is working you can extend it; when it is done you can book it again in a tap.
Where it operates
Inner Melbourne: the Inner East (Richmond, Hawthorn, Kew, Camberwell, Burnley, Cremorne), the Inner North (Fitzroy, Carlton, Brunswick, Northcote, Collingwood) and Bayside (Brighton, Elwood, St Kilda, Hampton, Sandringham). Robots run out of two depots, at Richmond and Port Melbourne. You can check a suburb or postcode before you start a booking.
What is real, and what is not
The product is real: the app, the operations portal and the interactive demo all work end to end, and the pricing, matching, availability, dispatch and booking rules are implemented rather than mocked up. The fleet is not. Every manufacturer, model, unit, price, depot, service area and booking is seeded, illustrative data running as a deterministic simulation. There is no live robot to send you.
There are also no safety certifications, regulatory approvals, insurance arrangements or manufacturer partnerships behind Botler, and no customers, reviews or press coverage. We would rather say that plainly here than have you infer otherwise from a polished page.
Your data
Botler keeps your bookings, addresses and preferences on your device. Deleting the app removes them unless you have exported a backup. See the privacy policy for what does and does not leave the device, and the safety page for what a robot's sensors would record during a booking.
Who builds it
Botler is a Harfred Labs project, built and run by Jeremy Marks in Melbourne. Questions, problems and "when are you coming to my suburb" all go to the same place: support.
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