Rob Wilder.
Property operator who read robotics early as a defining piece of real estate’s next decade — and started building the infrastructure the industry would need to host it.
Career operator in real estate and property management — the original field-service-network business. Four-time software founder.
Wilder Robotics is the technology arm of Wilder Management Inc., a privately held real-estate operating company that Rob leads.
The buildings robots are moving into weren’t built to host them. The industry’s default answer — letting the robot vendor own the record of what happened — doesn’t survive a claim, an audit, or a courtroom.
The alternative is boring, and that’s the point. Robot-ready spaces. A signed evidence layer anyone with the public key can verify. Trained field teams who show up when a machine stops making sense. Wilder Robotics is building those three pieces on the timeline the work actually requires — not on a fundraising clock.
Shipping Pask as the signed action-record specification for robot-ready sites. Building Robotkeepers as the credentialed field network that keeps the machines running. Curating the hardware shortlist — Yarbo for grounds, Beatbot for water — deployed alongside both.
The Pask reference implementation is public at github.com/wilder-robotics/pask-workspace. The specification is filing with the IETF this week as draft-wilder-scitt-physical-site-engagement-receipt-00.
Lake Forest, Illinois. Field operations in the Chicago metro. Reachable at rob@wilder-robotics.com.