Shared robots, run city by city
The Hardware Pool
The Guild is worldwide. The robots are local. Each node is a city with a venue, a steward and a fleet of open-source robots members share. Berlin is first.
How a node works
- 1
A city, a venue, a steward
A steward hosts Guild Night at a makerspace, lab or office. The node's operator owns the robots.
- 2
Ten founding members launch it
The operator buys the first robot. Ten founding seats buy the rest of the launch fleet, and their holders crew it for the node's life.
- 3
Guild Night, then take it home
Any Guild member can come weekly to get unstuck. Pool members take robots home until the next night.
- 4
One charter, every node
The same four rules and the same worldwide Guild stand behind every node, wherever it opens.
What a node offers
The fleet
Open-source robots with ship names, to use at the venue or take home.
Borrow before buying
Take a robot home before spending your own money on one.
Builder Salons
Small, vetted evenings with people who build things. Pool members get priority places.
A fair deposit
Roughly the robot's value, back in full when it returns complete and working.
A fleet that grows
More members, more robots. Founding members vote on each one and book first.
Founding seats, then everyone
Every node opens with ten founding seats. Once they're taken, that offer closes for good. After that: yearly or monthly.
Founding Member, per node
€290once
Ten per node. Access to every robot while the node runs, including those added later. A vote on each, first pick when booking and your name in the fleet register.
After the tenth seat
From then on, the only way in is yearly or monthly membership: same robots, loans and priority Salon places. No vote, no register entry. It renews.
Yearly €190Monthly €19 + €49 one-time no-freeloader fee
The nodes
Berlin is node no. 1 and, for now, the only one. Propose the second.
Node 1 · since 2026
Berlin
Motion Lab Berlin · steward Alex Adamov
1 of 4 robots bought
10 of 10 founding seats left
Next node
Start a node near you
Have a venue and a weekly evening to spare? Write to Alex and work it out together. You get the brand, a node page, the charter, pricing, a setup playbook and the Guild behind you.
Questions
Do I need to live near a node?
For the robots, yes: loans start and end at Guild Night. Everything else in the Guild is online and free, wherever you are.
Who owns the robots?
The node's operator, who also takes payment and holds the deposit. In Berlin that's Alex Adamov Digital Services, the steward's business. Members get access to the fleet, never ownership.
Does a Berlin seat work at other nodes?
A seat covers its own node's fleet: robots stay local. The Guild, Discord and learning resources are free everywhere.
Do nodes lend spare parts?
No. Nodes lend robots, never spare parts, components or electronics. Sourcing those for your own builds is on you, and half the learning.