From Metal to Finished Robot
Russian manufacturers are moving toward end-to-end robotics production.
Chelyabinsk-based Ready Robot has upgraded its production line, enabling the company to manufacture complete automated packaging and palletizing systems in-house, from cutting raw metal to assembling finished equipment. The upgrade is expected to significantly improve both production quality and operating speed.
New Machines, New Capabilities
With support from Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, the company purchased new equipment. Welding stations now feature modern semi-automatic welding machines and gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) equipment, allowing the company to work with a wide range of materials and produce high-quality circumferential welds. A laser cutting system processes sheet metal and complex-shaped profile tubes. A high-precision lathe with a digital readout system and an enlarged spindle bore can machine long workpieces. The company has also installed a press brake rated at 170 metric tons, capable of handling parts up to three meters (about 10 feet) long.
With these upgrades the company can now manufacture structural components in-house that it previously purchased from contractors.
Flexible Manufacturing Technologies
Ready Robot LLC, which operates under the Ready Pack brand, has manufactured end-to-end automated systems since 2016. Its product range includes case erectors and sealers, case packers, palletizers, pallet wrappers, conveyor lines and reject systems. The equipment serves the food, medical, chemical and construction industries and is in demand in Russia and other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.
For example, in April 2026, the company’s engineers automated a production line at a facility in Osipovichi, Belarus, installing a machine vision system and a robotic arm with a 240-kilogram payload capacity. Throughput rose from eight to 10 pallets per hour to 18, nearly doubling output.
The company has also signed an agreement with an Altai-based grain-processing holding to install pallet-wrapping systems, which are expected to improve process efficiency by at least 50%. In addition, Ready Robot signed a 163.5 million ruble contract (about $2 million) with Raduga, an animal feed manufacturer, to deploy automatic palletizing systems. Robotic arms equipped to apply Chestny ZNAK (Honest Sign), Russia’s product labeling system, are expected to raise daily output to 200 metric tons. Overall system effectiveness is projected to reach 95%, while shipping throughput is expected to hit 54 pallets per hour.
Domestic Components Replace Imports
Alongside its finished systems, Ready Robot is expanding production of import-substituting components for the food industry. The company has launched manufacturing of crack detectors and probes for poultry-processing scoring units. Initial batches are being delivered to facilities in Russia’s Ural Federal District, reducing import dependence for more than 100 Russian companies.
The company is now developing an egg-sorting system that will automate the entire production process, from placing eggs on a conveyor to stacking cartons on pallets. This is expected to substantially reduce production costs. Ready Robot has already reached an agreement to supply the systems to AGROSPROM LLC, a company specializing in services for poultry farms.
Advancing National Industrial Policy
Ready Robot’s work aligns with Russia’s national goal of ranking among the world’s top 25 countries in industrial robot adoption. The government is actively supporting this effort, including through the national project Sredstva proizvodstva i avtomatizatsiya (Production Equipment and Automation). In 2025, Ready Robot invested 400 million rubles (about $4.9 million) in modular systems for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), while the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises awarded the company 270 million rubles (about $3.3 million) in grants.
At the end of 2024, Russia’s industrial robotics market was valued at 10.3 billion rubles (about $126 million), while domestic production had grown 4.5-fold to 7.6 billion rubles (about $93 million). The industrial base for building robots is also strengthening. In the machine tool and tooling market, valued at 433 billion rubles (about $5.3 billion), Russian-made machine tools already account for 30%.
Turnkey Robotics
The shift to full-cycle manufacturing, already completed by Ready Robot LLC, is becoming an industry-wide trend in Russia. For example, Perm-based Promobot began manufacturing Promobot M13 industrial robotic arms in 2024, with locally sourced components accounting for more than 60% of the total. STAN Group has expanded its capacity to build complete turnkey robotic cells, bringing spindle assemblies and control systems into its own manufacturing operations. RoboComponent LLC mass-produces grippers and machine vision systems, filling a market niche that previously depended entirely on imports.
Deep localization is laying a solid foundation for growth across the industrial automation sector. It also strengthens technological independence and gives Russian manufacturers access to reliable automation solutions.
