RobCo Industries



RobCo Industries was a multi-billion-dollar robotics and software corporation founded by industrialist and technologist Robert House.

Background
Founded on June 25, 2042, House's company developed a wide range of robotic products including the eyebot, protectron, and sentry bot as well as the Stealth Boy Model 3001 Personal Stealth Device. RobCo invested in exhibits for the public, such as the joint RobCo/General Atomics exposition at the Museum of Technology in Washington, D.C. 

Acquisitions
The company was known to acquire valuable assets through any means necessary. One such asset was REPCONN Aerospace. RobCo acquired the company after a year of buying shares from 2075 to 2076, when Steeple's allies turned against him. The Vice President tried to rally the board again and sought help from Masters, but while the CFO officially agreed to support him, she was actually working with General Manager Piers Isley to sell the company. Citing the profit of a merger with RobCo (not to mention avoiding a hostile takeover and a much less amicable transition), Isley and Masters managed to undermine Steeple's position in the company and get the board of directors to pass a vote of no confidence against Steeple, after he refused to even consider selling his part of the company, in order to maintain their independence and integrity. Failing the vote, Steeple stepped down from his position as Vice President.

Carl Rook, transferred from RobCo's security division, became the next Vice President, focusing on improving the security within the company. Robert House, CEO of RobCo, used the newly acquired company for a weapons research program for Colonel Moretti of the US military, repurposing REPCONN's proprietary plasma rocket propulsion system.

H&H Tools factory, the inheritance Anthony House stole from Robert, saw aggressive trading practices at the hands of RobCo, in attempt to obtain their market share.

Joint ventures
RobCo also had the good fortune of forming lasting partnerships with other corporations. In fact, the joint venture with Vault-Tec, in which RobCo's Pip-Boy 2000 and Pip-Boy 3000 were selected as the personal information processors for Vault dwellers, was widely considered one of the most successful joint ventures in the history of American commerce and industry. A number of vaults were built throughout the Mojave Desert, though only one is known of. In addition, RobCo also assisted in Vault 79's construction, adding military-grade defensive turret systems to the Vault. The turret system was developed at the RobCo Research Center, known as the Semi-Autonomous Immobile Weapon Platform, to be used only for special government procurement.

Another venture made was with that of the Nuka-Cola Corporation and their Nuka-World amusement park, opening the RobCo Battlezone as part of the grand opening of the Galactic Zone.

Yet another venture was made with the company Arktos Pharma and three other unknown corporations to secure a contract with the United States Space Administration for the Deep Sleep project, which was an attempt to record biological sensory data from subjects in hibernation pods in zero-gravity conditions.

One of their largest ventures was with that of the Hornwright Industrial and Atomic Mining Services in order to bulldoze and take land from many residents of the Cranberry Bog, specifically Watoga National Park, and replace it with a fully automated city of the future, with the RobCo facility nearby providing them with jobs and advanced technologies.

Perhaps their most prestigious joint venture was military contract 38917. In cooperation with General Atomics International, Robco was contracted to collaborate on an unprecedented joint project: The creation of the most powerful combat robot in the history of warfare, to liberate Anchorage, Alaska from Chinese occupation in a display of power meant to demoralize the enemy and force them into submission. The project was meant to serve both military and propaganda needs. The former dictated the capacity, the latter the design: In the words of General Constantine Chase, initiator of the project, Liberty Prime was to embody the American military: A walking, talking, nuke-tossing hero reminding enemies of the U.S. that they picked a fight with a global superpower. Confident that the project would soon yield result, General Chase publicly confirmed in June 2072 that the U.S. Army was working with General Atomics and RobCo to create a superweapon meant to establish dominance of the United States on the Alaskan front.

Facilities

 * RobCo Auto-Cache #001 in Gauley Mine, West Virginia (Appalachia, partial ownership for the Auto-Cache project)
 * H&H Tools factory (Mojave Wasteland)
 * REPCONN headquarters (Mojave Wasteland)
 * REPCONN test site (Mojave Wasteland)
 * RobCo facility, Washington, D.C. (Capital Wasteland)
 * RobCo Research Center, West Virginia (Appalachia)
 * RobCo Sales & Service Center, Boston (The Commonwealth)

Other

 * RobCo Battlezone in Nuka-World, Massachusetts