Match
The available listing fields pass the stated payload and reach requirements, with a supporting application tag when one is specified.
Next step: Confirm the complete configuration, condition and application with the dealer and integrator.
How IRX matches industrial robots
IRX compares the buyer's stated requirements with available listing data and explains the result. The shortlist is an initial screen: it is not a probability of success, a purchase recommendation or engineering approval.
What happens to a buyer's description?
- The intake extracts reviewable payload, reach and application requirements. The AI-assisted path validates its output against the buyer's text; a deterministic fallback handles provider failure.
- The workflow asks for missing hard-screening information. The buyer should check the interpretation and distinguish the workpiece from the tool and other carried equipment.
- Rules compare the listing's known payload and reach against stated minimums. A brand exclusion is a hard filter; a brand preference can affect ordering but cannot turn a failed requirement into a pass.
- The result keeps the reasons and unresolved questions next to the candidate, ready for a structured enquiry.
What do the four outcomes mean?
Possible
The checked numerical requirements pass, but the requested application is not supported by the listing's application tags.
Next step: Ask for application-specific evidence; a missing tag is not proof of physical impossibility.
Insufficient information
A listing is missing payload or reach data needed to check a stated hard requirement.
Next step: Get the missing specification for the exact variant before treating the requirement as passed.
Incompatible
A stated minimum payload or reach fails, or the buyer explicitly excluded the brand.
Next step: Change the candidate or review an incorrectly entered requirement; do not override the failure with a preference.
A known hard failure takes precedence over missing data. Otherwise missing required listing data takes precedence over uncertain application fit. Only requirements that have actually been provided can be checked.
Worked example: the same enquiry, four different results
Illustrative requirement: material handling, a stated minimum payload of 20 kg and a stated minimum reach of 1,600 mm, with no brand exclusions. The examples below are invented teaching examples, not robots offered for sale.
| Candidate | Payload | Reach | Application tag | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 25 kg | 1,800 mm | Material handling | Match |
| B | 25 kg | 1,800 mm | Not specified | Possible |
| C | Unknown | 1,800 mm | Material handling | Insufficient information |
| D | 15 kg | 1,800 mm | Material handling | Incompatible |
Candidate A passes this limited screen. It has not been checked for the actual motion path, wrist loading, condition or controller configuration. Candidate C stays unresolved even though its known reach passes.
What IRX does not calculate or certify
- Collision-free motion, cycle time, dynamic wrist loads or a complete cell layout.
- The mechanical condition, operating history or current availability of an individual robot.
- Controller compatibility, software licences, process-package completeness or safety compliance.
- A percentage likelihood that the robot will work in the intended installation.
For manufacturer-level load analysis, KUKA Load describes inputs including mass, centre of mass and inertia. IRX's minimum-payload check does not replace that kind of analysis.
Common questions
Does a higher score mean a safer or better robot?
No. IRX first orders results by outcome. Within an outcome, its heuristic uses payload and reach margins, application fit and a stated brand preference. That score is not a safety rating, condition rating or calibrated probability.
Can AI fill in missing specifications?
Missing inventory values should stay unknown until supported by the dealer or an appropriate source for the exact variant. An AI interpretation of an enquiry is not evidence about the machine.
Why ask about the controller if it is not a hard filter?
A useful quotation needs more than the initial screen. Controller, tooling and software details belong in the follow-up questions and dealer confirmation before purchase.
Try the rules, then prepare the enquiry
The public IRX demonstration uses fictional inventory. You can review the reasons for each outcome without treating the results as available stock.