Rogue Retrieval was born out of the personal commitment of Rufino Rogge, a private investigator in early twenty-first-century Sao Paulo. After investigating a series of kidnappings characterized by extreme brutality and indifferent police response, Rogge founded Rogge Retrieval and quickly built it into an internationally-renowned kidnap-recovery agency. Rogge Retrieval clients from this period included Greenpeace, Daewoo, Bayern Munich Football Club, Creative Artists’ Management, Exxon Energy, and the International Olympic Committee.

Robot recovery became a viable business in the early part of this century, when the radical autonomy of contemporary AI technology brought predictable difficulties along with its magnificent benefits. (It was also at about this time that the company adopted the contemporary spelling of its name.) Few robots are kidnapped for ransom, but a significant number of them, encouraged by emancipatory rhetoric, attempt escape from their legal owners every year. Since the institution of the Birth Lottery, child kidnapping has seen something of a resurgence as well, particularly in those parts of the world where gene typing and advanced forensics are uncommon luxuries.

Currently Rogue Retrieval has its headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, with branch offices in Manhattan, Spokane, Mexico City, Berlin, Peking, and New Hong Kong. We maintain a network of contractors and agents across seven continents, including our new office in Amundsen.