what is assisted autonomy?

It is where most honest commercial robots of 2026 work: picking fleets like the Locus Origin’s navigate alone and consult a person on the rare cases. The opposite, one full-time operator per robot, is teleoperation by another name.

Why that operator-to-robot ratio is the number no demo shows, and how to use it to read any robotics announcement, is in teleoperated vs. autonomous.