RobCo Industries was one of the largest and most influential computer and robotics corporations in the pre-War world. Several RobCo products were the defacto choice for many consumers, such as the Unified Operating System used by nearly all terminals. The company's key products were robots, selling them to both the average citizen and producing them for military use through defence contracts. The production of robots would accelerate into the Automation riots, with RobCo's robots facilitating the massive loss of jobs to automation and further displacing working-class citizens before the Great War.

 

The company was founded in 2042 by Robert House after he was cheated out of his inheritance by his brother. By 2047, the now 27-year-old Commonwealth Institute of Technology graduate managed to make it one of the most profitable corporations on Earth, thanks to his business acumen and technical genius. Robert deliberately structured the company like a maze, to obfuscate his role and allow RobCo to effectively hide their practices.

 

The company's aggressive expansion policies coupled with the high quality of their products have given it a practical monopoly in crucial segments of the software market. By 2075, their Unified Operating System, was industry standard for terminals and mainframes. Within a year, their RobcOS became the standard for military-grade security systems as well. Their broad range of robots, including the eyebot, protectron, and sentry bot lines were one of the most common types of robotics before the War, rivaled only by General Atomics International's own product lines. In certain fields, however, RobCo was unmatched. One of those was Robert Mayflower's Stealth Boy, reverse engineered sometime between 2066 and 2077 from captured Chinese technology.

Of course, the company was concerned about its public image, A sinister megacorporation doesn't inspire confidence or loyalty. To educate the public and make it friendlier to the consumer, RobCo invested in exhibits and intense public relations campaigns, like the joint RobCo General Atomics exposition at the Museum of Technology.

 

The company was also 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, Of course, some companies weren't taken over. Some were destroyed: H&H Tools Factory, the inheritance Anthony House stole from Robert, was destroyed on the stock market by aggressive trading practices, as an act of vengeance.

 

RobCo also had the good fortune of forming lasting partnerships with other corporations. In fact, the joint venture with Vault-Tec Industries, in which RobCo's Pip-Boy 2000 and Pip-Boy 3000 were selected as the personal information processors for Vault dwellers, this was widely considered one of the most successful joint ventures in the history of American commerce and industry.

 

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.

 

One of their largest ventures was with that of the Hornwright Industrial, Big mountain and Dunwich Borers LLC in order to bulldoze and take land from many residents in the area around one of Dunwich’s smaller pits and replace it with a fully automated city of the future, construction began in may 2055 and was due to be completed october 2077.