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Robot Framework

Robot Framework is an open-source, keyword-driven automation framework with a readable plain-text syntax, used for acceptance testing and robotic process automation and implemented in Python and supported by the Robot Framework Foundation.

Oct 3, 2026

Robot Jox

Robot Jox is a 1990 American science fiction film directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Joe Haldeman and starring Gary Graham, about nations settling disputes through giant-robot duels.

Robot locomotion

Robot locomotion is the study of how robots move through an environment on wheels, tracks, or legs, and of the trade-off between speed, energy efficiency, and mobility on unstructured terrain.

Robot Operating System

Robot Operating System (ROS), or Robot OS, is an open-source framework for robot software built at Willow Garage and Stanford, now spanning research and industry in two generations.

Robot series

The Robot series, also called Isaac Asimov's Robot series, is a science fiction sequence of short stories and novels built around the Three Laws of Robotics.

Robot Wars (TV series)

Robot Wars is a British television game show in which remote-controlled combat robots fight in an armored arena, broadcast from 1998 to 2004 and revived in 2016.

Robot World Cup soccer simulation league

The Robot World Cup soccer simulation league, also known as the RoboCup Soccer Simulation League, has teams of software agents play simulated soccer matches, advancing research in AI and multi-agent team strategy.

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) is a minimally invasive operation in which a robotic surgical system implants a donor kidney through small ports, first performed in France in 2001.

Robot-assisted surgery

Robot-assisted surgery (RAS, robotic surgery): surgeon-controlled computer systems moving instruments through small incisions, from PUMA 560 (1985) and da Vinci (FDA 2000); not autonomous, costly, no FDA cancer indication.

Robot-assisted thoracic surgery

Robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is a minimally invasive technique in which a surgeon at a console operates on chest organs with wristed robotic instruments, mainly for lung resections.

Robot-assisted valve surgery

Robot-assisted valve surgery is heart-valve repair or replacement done through small chest incisions with a surgical robot, pioneered by Alain Carpentier in the first robotic heart operation in 1998.

Robot-to-human handover

A robot-to-human handover is a collaborative action in which a robot transfers an object to a human receiver, running from the receiver's first contact to the robot's full release.

Robotarium

The Robotarium is a remotely accessible swarm robotics facility at Georgia Tech, opened in 2017, where anyone can run code on real robots free of charge.

Robotech

Robotech: 1985 American animated space-opera serial by Harmony Gold, Carl Macek's 85-episode adaptation splicing Macross, Southern Cross, and Mospeada via Robotechnology and protoculture.

RobotEra (北京星动纪元科技股份有限公司) (星动纪元)

RobotEra (星动纪元) is a Beijing humanoid-robot startup founded in August 2023 by Chen Jianyu under Tsinghua University's technology-transfer policy, the only embodied-intelligence company Tsinghua directly holds equity in.

Robotic arm

A robotic arm is a programmable mechanical manipulator, usually mounted on a fixed base, whose joints position and orient a tool, used widely in industrial automation.

Robotic cholecystectomy

Robotic cholecystectomy is the removal of the gallbladder using a robotic-assisted laparoscopic system, in which the surgeon operates from a console; it now accounts for about one-quarter of US cholecystectomies.

Robotic Combat Vehicle program

The Robotic Combat Vehicle program was a United States Army effort to develop armed, remotely controlled or semi-autonomous ground vehicles to accompany tanks and infantry, canceled in May 2025.

Robotic cystectomy

Robotic cystectomy, formally robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC), is a minimally invasive operation that removes the urinary bladder, typically for muscle-invasive bladder cancer, using a robotic system.

Robotic inguinal hernia repair

Robotic inguinal hernia repair is a minimally invasive operation in which a surgeon uses a robotic platform to place mesh in the groin's preperitoneal space.

Robotic layout

Robotic layout is the automated printing of a building's BIM design onto a concrete slab by an autonomous robot, replacing manual measuring and chalk-line marking.

Robotic liver resection

Robotic liver resection is a minimally invasive operation in which a surgeon removes part of the liver while controlling instruments from a robotic console, such as the da Vinci.

Oct 22, 2026

Robotic metamaterial

A robotic metamaterial is an architected mechanical material whose unit cells are each minimal robots, first demonstrated in 2019 by researchers at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Robotic mobile fulfillment system

A robotic mobile fulfillment system is a warehouse automation architecture in which robots lift movable shelves, called pods, to human-operated pick stations, pioneered by Kiva Systems.

Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy

Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy is a minimally invasive operation in which a surgeon uses a robotic platform to remove the pancreatic head and duodenum, first performed by P. C. Giulianotti in 2001.

Robotic process automation

Robotic process automation, also known as robotic automation, is a software technology in which programmable bots emulate human actions like clicks and data entry to automate repetitive, rules-based tasks across business applications.

Robotic pyeloplasty

Robotic pyeloplasty is a robot-assisted laparoscopic operation that reconstructs the ureteropelvic junction to relieve urine outflow obstruction from the kidney, first reported in 2002 and standard of care by 2020.

Robotic Research OpCo, LLC

Robotic Research OpCo, LLC, doing business as Forterra, is a Clarksburg, Maryland autonomous-vehicle company founded in 2002 that makes the AutoDrive kit for trucks and buses and has raised about $460 million.

Robotic sacrocolpopexy

Robotic sacrocolpopexy is a minimally invasive operation that uses robot-assisted laparoscopy to suspend the vaginal apex to the sacrum with mesh, repairing apical pelvic organ prolapse.