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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.