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RoboGobo

RoboGobo (レスキューペット ロボゴボ) is a 2025 Disney Junior animated preschool superhero series from Brown Bag Films: Dax and five robo-suited adopted pets rescue pets on MetroPet Island.

ROBOGUIDE

ROBOGUIDE is FANUC PC software that simulates and programs industrial robot systems offline, using a virtual controller to validate programs before transferring them to real robots.

Robohnya Surau Kami

Robohnya Surau Kami ("The Collapse of Our Surau") is a 1955 short story by the Indonesian writer A.A. Navis, satirizing ritual piety that neglects family, work, and social welfare.

RoBoHoN

RoBoHoN (ロボホン) is a walking, talking humanoid robot-shaped mobile phone released by Sharp in Japan on May 26, 2016, and described as the world's first robotic phone.

Robolohikum

Robolohikum (Робологікум), Academy of Knowledge and Development, is an interactive children's science and robotics center at Adrenalin City in Lutsk, Ukraine, with ten themed departments, weekend workshops, and links to the Museum of Technical Progress.

RoboMaster

RoboMaster (机甲大师) is an annual collegiate robotics competition founded by the Chinese drone maker DJI, in which university teams battle armed, wheeled robots judged by an electronic referee system.

Robomimic

Robomimic is an open-source framework and benchmark for robot learning from demonstration, developed at Stanford and UT Austin, providing human demonstration datasets and offline learning algorithms for robot manipulation tasks.

Robomow

Robomow is a brand of robotic lawn mowers developed since 1995 in Pardesiya, Israel, originally as Friendly Machines and owned since 2021 by Stanley Black & Decker through MTD Products.

Robonaut 2

Robonaut 2 is a humanoid robot developed by NASA and General Motors, launched to the International Space Station in 2011 as the first humanoid robot in space.

RoboParty (萝博派对)

RoboParty (萝博派对), formally Shanghai RoboParty Technology Co., Ltd., is a Shanghai startup founded by Huang Yi in 2025 that develops fully open-source bipedal humanoid robots, raising nearly RMB 500 million.

Robopocalypse

Robopocalypse is a 2011 science fiction novel by Daniel H. Wilson, his debut, in which a sentient AI called Archos turns the world's machines against humanity.

Roborace

Roborace was a racing competition for driverless electric cars, founded in 2015 by Denis Sverdlov as a support series to Formula E, where teams competed on software in identical cars.

Roborock (Beijing Roborock Technology Co., Ltd.)

Roborock, also known as Beijing Roborock Technology, is a Chinese company founded in Beijing in 2014 that makes robot vacuums, floor scrubbers, and robotic mowers, and led the global cleaning-robot market in 2025.

Robosen

Robosen, also known as Robosen Robotics (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd, is a Chinese consumer robotics company in Shenzhen that makes app- and voice-programmable transforming entertainment robots, including Hasbro-licensed Optimus Prime.

RoboSense

RoboSense (速腾聚创) is a Chinese LiDAR sensor manufacturer founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shenzhen, making laser ranging sensors for automotive ADAS and robotics applications.

RoboSimian

RoboSimian, also known as Clyde, is a simian-inspired, four-limbed disaster-response robot built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as its entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

Robosoft Technologies

Robosoft Technologies is an Indian digital-solutions and app-development company founded by Rohith Bhat in Udupi, Karnataka, in 1996, serving clients like McDonald's and HSBC and acquired by Japan's TechnoPro Holdings in 2021.

RoboSuite

RoboSuite is an open-source simulation framework for robot learning built on the MuJoCo physics engine, providing modular robotic tasks and standardized benchmarks for reproducible manipulation research.

Robot

A robot is a machine that physically interacts with its environment; industrial standards define robots as automatically controlled, reprogrammable manipulators programmable in three or more axes, fixed or mobile.

Robot (Lost in Space)

The Robot, also known as Robot B-9, is the robot character of Irwin Allen's television series Lost in Space, which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968.

Robot (word)

Robot is an English word for a machine that carries out actions automatically, coined by Josef Čapek for his brother Karel's 1920 play R.U.R., from the Czech robota, meaning forced serf labor.

Robot calibration

Robot calibration is an engineering procedure that identifies and corrects errors in a robot's kinematic and compliance parameters, so the end-effector reaches commanded poses more accurately.

Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル)

Robot Carnival (ロボットカーニバル, Robotto Kānibaru) is a 1987 A.P.P.P. anime anthology film of nine robot-themed shorts, bookended by Katsuhiro Ōtomo and Atsuko Fukushima, released on VHS 21 July 1987 and first shown in the West in 1991.

Robot cell layout design

Robot cell layout design is the engineering task of arranging robots, workstations, feed and output devices, tooling, and safety equipment in a robotic work cell for maximum throughput.

Robot Chicken

Robot Chicken is an Adult Swim stop-motion sketch comedy created by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich, premiering February 20, 2005. It ran 218 episodes over 11 seasons to 2022, then quarterly specials, using toys to parody pop culture and winning six Emmys from 23 nominations.

Robot density

Robot density is the number of operational industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, the standard measure of automation used by the International Federation of Robotics.

Robot Dreams (film)

Robot Dreams is a 2023 Spanish-French wordless animated film by Pablo Berger, adapted from Sara Varon's 2007 graphic novel, about Dog and Robot in 1980s New York; Cannes premiere, Oscar-nominated, Annie and Goya winner.

Robot Era

Robot Era (星动纪元) is a Beijing humanoid robotics startup founded in 2023 by Tsinghua professor Chen Jianyu, maker of the ERA L7 humanoid and the ERA-42 AI model.

Robot ethics of deceptive appearance

Robot ethics of deceptive appearance is the branch of robot ethics asking when it is wrong to design robots that seem to have emotions or capacities they lack.

Robot fleet management software

Robot fleet management software coordinates, monitors, and dispatches fleets of mobile robots, such as AGVs and AMRs, in factories and warehouses, assigning tasks and managing traffic and charging.