Collaborative robots (COBOTs) are robots designed to safely work with people and have made significant strides in next generation applications, making them metrology ready. The ability to record and repeat movements, integrate sensors, reduce cost, improve quality, provide process sustainment, decrease attrition, improve throughput, and not require benefits packages, all in one system, can seem like a dream. COBOTs have developed to a level where they have become a viable solution with ROIs within months. The need for elaborate robot programming knowledge and specialized machining has been replaced with commercial off the shelf (COTS) resources that quickly provide solutions. How to manage a COBOT metrology laboratory, address personnel concerns, cost benefit analysis, and accreditation concerns, along with how to integrate COBOT capabilities are the basis of discussion for this paper.