Fabric: The Leading Force in the Robot Economy

The robot economy requires a financial network as its infrastructure, enabling robots to obtain identities, wallets, and coordination systems, thus becoming autonomous economic participants rather than just isolated tools.

Why Robots Need a Financial Network

The robotics industry is at a critical inflection point, driven by the convergence of three major factors:

1. AI systems are beginning to understand, predict, and respond to highly dynamic physical environments;

2. Hardware costs are low enough and reliable enough for large-scale deployment;

3. Industries such as caregiving, education, manufacturing, and environmental cleanup have long faced labor shortages.

The next significant turning point is building a global system to better prepare for the future. In this future, robots will be able to think, remember, and learn, working alongside us to solve the challenges ahead.

Currently, whether it’s door handles, passports, or ink signatures, we are building infrastructure for humans that excludes non-biological thinking robots. This makes it difficult for robots to become a vibrant, global labor force with economic participation, as they lack financial identities.

Humans can open bank accounts, hold passports, sign contracts, buy insurance, and receive payments… Until robots can interact with the real world as equal economic participants, they exist only as “tool-like labor” controlled by a few large companies and isolated from each other.

To bridge this gap, Fabric is building a network for payments, identities, and capital allocation, enabling robots to operate as autonomous economic participants. This is what we call the foundation of the “robot economy.”

Where We Are Now

Robots have been deployed in warehouses, retail stores, hospitals, and delivery services, but their scale remains limited due to a lack of connected and coordinated systems.

Current robot cluster models (closed-loop systems) typically involve:

• A single operator privately funding;
• Purchasing robots (capital expenditure, CAPEX) and managing operations internally (charging, maintenance, safety, uptime);
• Signing bilateral contracts with clients;
• Managing payments and cash flow internally.

This model is inefficient because each robot cluster operates as an isolated island with fragmented software systems. It also creates a structural mismatch: the demand for automation is global, but access to robot networks and participation in the robot economy is limited to institutions and well-capitalized operators.

Blockchain technology unlocks an alternative model for global collaboration: permissionless markets, transparent participation mechanisms, programmable incentives, verifiable contribution tracking, and on-chain identities.

Fabric is applying these foundational components to the robotics field. To scale this model, robots will need the same things humans have: a unified open network.

Why We Are Building Fabric

Fabric’s goal is simple: to be the leading force driving the development of the robot economy. Essentially, Fabric is an open system where anyone can participate in coordinating, supplying, and operating robots, deploying them into real-world scenarios, and sharing the benefits of automation.

Fabric’s infrastructure is a coordination and allocation layer for the robot workforce, enabling participants to access network services and contribute to robot deployment.

Fabric operates like a market infrastructure layer: it coordinates participants to available work and settles fees in $ROBO (note that $ROBO does not represent any legal entity, physical asset, equity, debt, profit sharing, or ownership).

This coordination makes it possible for decentralized communities to participate in, purchase, and deploy robot clusters. Users deposit stablecoins to support robot deployment, laying the foundation for decentralized community operation and maintenance of clusters, including charging logistics, route planning/scheduling, maintenance, compliance monitoring, and uptime guarantees.

Subsequently, demand-side users pay robot labor fees using $ROBO. A portion of protocol revenue may be used to buy $ROBO on the open market. Coordinators involved in robot creation gain priority in task allocation during the initial operational phase, based on ongoing active participation. This does not confer ownership, profit rights, or any share in the robot cluster economy. Participation units are non-transferable and do not offer investment returns.

Over time, this network will become a coordination layer for the robot workforce, optimizing deployment across industries, regions, and tasks. The closest analogy is how modern financial protocols allocate stablecoin liquidity into yield strategies. Network fees and protocol activity will drive demand for $ROBO, making it a settlement token for robot services, with its value derived from operational utility rather than speculation.

Why Blockchain?

Robots need three elements to function as economic agents.

First, they need a globally verifiable persistent identity system. When deploying robots in warehouses, cities, or delivery fleets, the world needs to know:

1. What type of robot it is;

2. Who controls it;

3. What permissions it has;

4. Its historical performance.

This identity layer is easiest to implement as an on-chain registry, allowing for traceability, auditability, and interoperability across different operators and jurisdictions.

Second, robots need wallets. They must be able to receive payments, pay for services (computing, maintenance, insurance), and autonomously settle contracts. Unlike humans, robots cannot open bank accounts, but they can hold cryptographic keys and operate on-chain accounts. This enables programmable settlement at any time.

Finally, only when coordination is transparent, participation rights are standardized, and access is easy, can robot clusters scale effectively. Blockchain is the only system capable of providing global access, transparent operation, programmable settlement, and verifiable contribution tracking.

What’s Next?

Scaling large robot clusters requires deploying partnerships, mature operational systems, insurance frameworks, and reliable revenue contracts.

Fabric is still in its early stages. But as robots gradually evolve into on-chain identities and interact within programmable labor markets, the robot economy becomes increasingly feasible.

Fabric is the foundation for building coordinated, deployed, and globally accessible robot workforce networks.