UNSPSC 23153205: Machine tending robot

Robotic equipment used to load and unload machines. For example, stand-alone robots used for automatic loading/unloading machining equipment.

UNSPSC 23153205 Machine tending robot is a Commodity code, but the recent state and local opportunities posted under this code show little alignment with the code's nominal scope. The source contains seven recent solicitations: an irrigation system installation project (City of DeBary, Florida, IFB); open education resources content sourcing and development (Texas Education Agency, RFP); educational robotics curriculum products (State of Oregon, sole-source); teaching and instructional materials across multiple subjects including robotics supplies (Katy Independent School District, RFP); STEM and College & Career Readiness kits and programs for a multi-state consortium (Cartwright Elementary School District No. 83 on behalf of SAVE, RFP); law enforcement equipment through Sourcewell (cooperative purchasing vehicle, RFP); and instructional catalog discount bids (Region 7 Purchasing Cooperative, RFP). Only two opportunities—the State of Oregon's Sphero educational robotics and modular mechanical kits purchase and Katy ISD's inclusion of robotics supplies among broader instructional materials—touch on machine tending robots or robotics education products at all. The remainder address irrigation infrastructure, educational content, general instructional supplies, law enforcement gear, and transportation maintenance, none of which maps to machine tending robots as industrial automation or material-handling equipment.

The issuing bodies span state procurement offices, county cooperative purchasing vehicles, independent school districts, and regional education consortiums across Florida, Texas, Oregon, Arizona, Washington, and Minnesota. Recent activity clusters around K-12 educational robotics and instructional materials rather than industrial machine tending applications. The code shows insufficient recent activity in state and local procurement to support a meaningful market characterization for machine tending robots as typically understood—industrial robots that load, unload, or tend manufacturing equipment. Firms evaluating this code should verify whether their actual products align with the educational robotics or instructional-materials segments capturing current state and local buying, or whether industrial automation equipment belongs in a different UNSPSC family altogether.