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Mobot testing robots run your Mobot test cases on real iPhones and Android phones, and a QA analyst verifies every failure before it reaches your team. Your engineers get real, reproducible defects, with no scripts to write or maintain.

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Northwind Financial
Test run 132 · Oct 2, 2026
Running1 defect
Defect detected
Step 33 · crash on confirm transfer
FailedTransfer funds between linked accounts
STEP 32 Passed

Enter $250.00 and select the linked savings account.

STEP 33 Failed

Tap “Confirm transfer” to submit the payment.

App terminated and returned to the home screen.

P0 verified by a QA analyst. Device screenshots, device log, and repro steps attached.

robot cell 07 · iPhone 18 Pro · iOS 27.0

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The Problem

Scripted Automation Is Flaky. Simulators Are Blind.

Flaky

Scripted frameworks—wherever they run—produce flaky false failures from timing issues, brittle selectors, and environment drift. Teams burn engineering hours triaging failures that aren't bugs.

Blind

Emulators and simulators structurally cannot exercise push notifications, Bluetooth, biometrics, camera hardware, or carrier network transitions—so they pass tests that fail in the real world.

Emulators and scripted frameworks only test what they can simulate. Mobot tests your app the way your users use it: on real iOS and Android devices, with real hardware.

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High-Signal QA: Every Defect Is Real

1

Physical Testing on Real Devices

Robots execute tests on actual phones and tablets—real taps, real swipes, real sensors—not simulated input events. Hardware-dependent defects are invisible to emulators, and they’re the ones that hit production.

2

Expert-Verified Results

Every defect is triaged and verified by a Mobot QA analyst before it reaches your team. You only ever see verified, reproducible defects with forensic evidence attached—the noise never makes it to your backlog.

3

A Platform Built for Scale

Mobot’s software authors test cases, executes massively in parallel across the robot fleet, and delivers deep defect forensics. This isn’t a body shop with robots—it’s a repeatable, consistent platform.

4

Always-On Operations

Onshore and offshore operations keep testing moving across time zones, so verified results come back without waiting on your team.

Agentic testing

Ready for the agentic software factory

Your coding agents ship more code than ever. Mobot AI and Mobot’s team build your test cases, and Mobot testing robots run them on real iOS and Android devices.

Every defect comes back verified by a QA analyst, with screenshots from the device, logs and reproduction steps, structured for your engineers and the agents working alongside them.

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How It Works

From Build to Verified Defect

Step 1

Submit a Build

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Step 2

Robots Test on Real Devices

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Step 3

Verified Defects, Delivered

A QA analyst verifies every failure before it reaches you—with screenshots from the device, logs, and reproduction steps.

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Mobot for Engineering

Automate tasks and accelerate development with AI-driven robotics

Engineering teams bogged down by manual processes and script maintenance can’t focus on innovation, leading to slow releases and technical debt.

  • Focus on innovation, not hotfixes
    Catch issues before they reach users so engineers can prioritize building new features.
  • Tests that update as your app changes
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    Submit a build through your usual channel; verified results come back without a repair cycle.
Verified defect
P0
App crash

The app crashes intermittently when users attempt to log in with Face ID.

Device
iPhone 18 Pro · iOS 27
Evidence
Screenshots · logs · steps
Reviewed by
QA analyst
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Robot-powered testing drives results

What happens when you offload testing to robots

Smoke test eliminated
“I've never seen an emulator get something 100% correct. When it comes to mobile it is not the same. Nothing can beat a physical device. Feels like magic to our team. Mobot eliminates the smoke test — we can test in a day whereas a QA team would normally take multiple days.”
Louis Johnson
Engineering, Citizen
34% → 12% change failure rate
“Mobot helped MySwimPro reduce our Change Failure Rate by 65% — going from 34% to 12%. With less time spent on triaging and reacting to production defects, we spend more time proactively delivering new features for our members.”
Nick Newell
Engineering, MySwimPro
4.2 → 4.8 App Store rating
“Within 3 months of working with Mobot, Sandboxx's App Store rating increased from 4.2 to 4.8. Can't say enough about how much better I feel with each release now that Mobot is part of the pipeline. Our stability rating for iOS is now at 99.9%.”
Swamy Ramaswamy
Engineering, Sandboxx

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