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RoboCasa
RoboCasa is a large-scale simulation framework for training generalist robots on household tasks, released in 2024 by University of Texas at Austin researchers and built on the MuJoCo physics engine.
Robocasting
Robocasting, now known as direct ink writing, is an additive manufacturing process that extrudes ceramic paste layer by layer to build parts, developed at Sandia in the 1990s.
RoboClam
RoboClam is a burrowing robot developed at MIT, begun as Amos Winter's PhD research in 2006, that imitates the Atlantic razor clam by fluidizing soil to dig with little energy.
RoboClaw
RoboClaw is a family of intelligent motor controllers for brushed DC motors made by Basicmicro, in single- and dual-channel models with USB, serial, RC, and analog control.
RoboComp
RoboComp is an open-source, component-oriented robotics framework started in 2005 at RoboLab, University of Extremadura in Spain, whose components communicate through public interfaces defined in two domain-specific languages.
RoboCop
RoboCop (1987) is Paul Verhoeven's Orion Pictures sci-fi satire starring Peter Weller as cyborg police officer Alex Murphy in privatized, crime-ridden Detroit; it spawned sequels, a 2014 remake, TV series, games, and a Detroit statue.
RoboCop (2014 film)
RoboCop (2014) is José Padilha's remake of the 1987 sci-fi action film, starring Joel Kinnaman as cyborg Detroit cop Alex Murphy. Released February 12, 2014; $242,981,799 worldwide; 50% on Rotten Tomatoes.
RoboCop (character)
RoboCop (Alex J. Murphy), fictional cyborg Detroit police officer from Paul Verhoeven's 1987 film, played by Peter Weller, later Robert Burke, Joel Kinnaman, and a Prime Video series reboot in development.
RoboCop (franchise)
RoboCop is an American media franchise centered on a cyborg Detroit policeman, starting with Paul Verhoeven's 1987 R-rated film written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, continuing through RoboCop 2 (1990), RoboCop 3 (1993), and the 2014 José Padilha remake, plus TV series, comics, and games, now owned by Amazon MGM Studios.
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 2, also known as Robocop II, is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Irvin Kershner and the sequel to 1987's RoboCop.
RoboCop 3
RoboCop 3 (1993), third RoboCop film directed by Fred Dekker, written with Frank Miller, starring Robert John Burke. Orion shelved it during bankruptcy; released November 5, 1993, grossed $8.9 million, 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.
RoboCop statue
The Detroit RoboCop statue is a bronze sculpture of Peter Weller's 1987 cyborg character, crowdfunded via Kickstarter in 2011 ($67,436 from 2,718 backers), sculpted by Giorgio Gikas, and installed December 3, 2025 in Eastern Market after 15 years.
RoboCop: Rogue City
RoboCop: Rogue City is a 2023 first-person action game by Teyon and Nacon based on the 1987 film, released November 2, 2023 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with Peter Weller voicing RoboCop and the Unfinished Business expansion in 2025.
Robocopy
Robocopy (Robust File Copy) is a command-line utility included with Microsoft Windows that copies, moves, and mirrors files; first shipped in 1996, it became a standard Windows component with Vista.
RoboCup
RoboCup is an international robotics and AI competition, often called the World Cup of Robotics, founded in 1997 with the goal of robotic soccer champions by 2050.
RoboCup 2D Simulation League
The RoboCup 2D Simulation League is a RoboCup competition where teams of eleven autonomous software agents play simulated soccer, a research platform for AI since 1997.
RoboCup 3D Simulation League
The RoboCup 3D Simulation League (3DSSL) is a RoboCupSoccer competition in which teams of simulated humanoid robots play autonomous soccer in a physically simulated 3D environment, running since 2004.
RoboCup Asia-Pacific
RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) is a super-regional headquarter of the RoboCup Federation, based in Singapore and founded in 2017. It runs an annual regional robotics championship and educational programs across the Asia-Pacific region.
RoboCup Humanoid League
The RoboCup Humanoid League is a robot soccer competition in which fully autonomous humanoid robots play against each other, first held at RoboCup 2002 in Fukuoka, Japan.
RoboCup Middle Size League
The RoboCup Middle Size League (MSL) is a robot soccer competition in which two teams of five fully autonomous, waist-high robots play with a regular FIFA ball on an indoor field.
RoboCup Rescue
RoboCup Rescue is a pair of annual international robotics competitions, a robot league and a simulation league, for urban search and rescue tasks such as locating victims in collapsed structures.
RoboCup Small Size League
The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL), established in 1997, is a robot soccer competition with teams of small, fast wheeled robots playing with an orange golf ball.
RoboCup Soccer
RoboCup Soccer is the robot soccer competition of the RoboCup initiative, first held in 1997, with a long-term goal of beating the human World Cup champions by 2050.
RoboCup Standard Platform League
The RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL) is a robot soccer league in which all teams compete with identical NAO humanoid robots, so success depends entirely on autonomous software.
RoboCup@Home
RoboCup@Home is an annual international competition and benchmarking program for domestic service robots, founded in 2006 as part of the RoboCup initiative and described as the largest worldwide competition for domestic service robots.
RoboDK
RoboDK is commercial software for robot simulation and offline programming of industrial robot arms, founded in 2015 in Montreal and supporting more than 1,400 robots from over 50 manufacturers.
RoboEarth
RoboEarth was a four-year European research project, ending in 2013, that let robots share task knowledge, object models, and maps through a cloud database, described as a World Wide Web for robots.
Robofest
Robofest is an international autonomous robotics competition for students in grades 4 through 12, founded in 1999 by Professor CJ Chung at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan.
Roboflow
Roboflow is a Des Moines, Iowa-based computer vision company whose platform handles dataset annotation, model training, and deployment, launched by Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer in January 2020.
RoboGeisha (ロボゲイシャ)
RoboGeisha (ロボゲイシャ, Robo-geisha) is a 2009 Japanese action-comedy-sci-fi splatter film by Noboru Iguchi about sisters turned into cyborg geisha assassins fighting a castle robot.