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🎓AcademyStructured tracks

⚡Spark · Beginner 🔌Wire · Intermediate 🔥Forge · Advanced ⚡️Edge · Research

📚Atlas400+ concepts explained⚡Daily ChallengeQuick puzzle · streak🎯Find My LevelQuick placement test🤖R2 Co-pilotAI mentor · ask anything

🤖Robot Projects10 guided builds · learn by doing🔬Simulators9 interactive tools💻Workspace IDECode & simulate🤖3D SimulationWebots robots🌐ROS2 PlaygroundLive shell

📚AtlasFull knowledge universe🔭LensBest robotics videos, decoded📰NewsDaily robotics updates🌍Robotics in Daily LifeRobotics in everyday life📝BlogLong-form editorial

💬LabAsk & discuss🏆Project ShowcaseBuilt by the community🛣️Career PathsRoadmaps to robotics jobs📢About R2BOTOur mission

🏆 #1 Most Famous: Boston Dynamics Spot🇮🇳 Indian Robot Spotlight: Vyommitra🚀 Furthest Robot: Perseverance — 300M km away on Mars📦 Largest Fleet: Amazon Robotics — 750,000+ Kiva units🦾 KUKA: the orange arm in every car factory🐕 Spot has been deployed in 64 countries🏆 #1 Most Famous: Boston Dynamics Spot🇮🇳 Indian Robot Spotlight: Vyommitra🚀 Furthest Robot: Perseverance — 300M km away on Mars📦 Largest Fleet: Amazon Robotics — 750,000+ Kiva units🦾 KUKA: the orange arm in every car factory🐕 Spot has been deployed in 64 countries

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The Robots Everyone Should Know

22 robots that shaped our world — ranked by how famous they are right now. Tap any card, or compare two side-by-side.

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PARO

AIST · 2001 · 🇯🇵

A robot seal that calms dementia patients more reliably than psychotropic drugs.

Roomba

iRobot · 2002 · 🇺🇸

It has vacuumed more floor than any human in history — 40 million homes.

Insight: PARO targets medical use, while Roomba targets consumer. PARO is 1 years older than Roomba.

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🐕Quadruped#1

Spot🇺🇸

This dog-robot inspects nuclear power plants that would kill a human.

📅Born 2019🌍64 countries⚡90 min battery

#quadruped#inspection#usa#commercial

Atlas🇺🇸

It learned to do a backflip. Now it works in a BMW car factory.

📅Born 2013🦾28 actuators⚡2.5 m/s sprint

#humanoid#bipedal#research#usa

Curiosity🇺🇸

It's been driving on Mars, alone, for 13 years — and it's not done.

🪐Driving on Mars📅13+ years⚛️Nuclear powered

#space#mars-rover#usa#nasa

Roomba🇺🇸

It has vacuumed more floor than any human in history — 40 million homes.

🏠40M+ homes📅Born 2002🌍~$199 starting

#consumer#home#usa#vacuum

da Vinci Surgical System🇺🇸

It has performed 14 million surgeries. Its hands don't shake.

🏥14M+ surgeries🌍9,000+ systems💰$2M each

#medical#surgical#usa#teleoperation

ASIMO🇯🇵

It took Honda 15 years of secret research before they showed the world.

📅2000–2018🤫14 years secret R&D🚶9 km/h running

#humanoid#bipedal#japan#retired

📦Warehouse#6

Amazon Kiva🇺🇸

If you have an Amazon Prime account, your packages have been moved by Kiva.

🤖750K+ fleet📦1,360 kg lift⚡5+ km/h drive

Optimus🇺🇸

It works 22 hours a day in a Tesla factory. No salary. No complaints.

🎯Target: <$20K🦾28 actuators🤖Tesla FSD brain

#humanoid#bipedal#usa#commercial

Sophia🇭🇰

The first robot in history to become a citizen — of Saudi Arabia, in 2017.

🛂Saudi citizen 2017📺UN speaker🎬50+ TV shows

#humanoid#social#hong-kong#media

Perseverance🇺🇸

It carried the first helicopter ever to fly on another planet.

🪐Mars since 2021🚁Ingenuity helicopter💨Made oxygen from CO2

#space#mars-rover#usa#nasa

🤖Humanoid#10

Figure 02🇺🇸

It works on the BMW assembly line. The factory pays Figure by the part.

🏭BMW factory💰$2.6B valuation🧠OpenAI brain

#humanoid#bipedal#usa#factory

🐕‍🦺Companion#11

AIBO🇯🇵

When AIBO units broke and Sony stopped support, Japanese owners held funerals for them.

📅Born 1999🐶22 axes (ERS-1000)🌍150K+ sold

#companion#consumer#japan#pet

Pepper🇫🇷

It reads your face. If you look sad, it changes how it talks to you.

🌍2,000+ sites🗣️15+ languages👁️3D vision

#humanoid#service#japan#social

🤖Educational#13

NAO🇫🇷

It taught more kids to code robotics than any other robot — in 70+ countries.

🏫13,000+ schools🌍70 countries🗣️20 languages

#humanoid#educational#france#research

PARO🇯🇵

A robot seal that calms dementia patients more reliably than psychotropic drugs.

🏥FDA medical device🌍30+ countries🦭2.7 kg fluff

#medical#companion#japan#therapy

🚀Humanoid#15

Vyommitra🇮🇳

India's first space astronaut robot — she speaks six languages and is about to fly to space.

🇮🇳ISRO-built🚀Gaganyaan mission🗣️6 languages

#humanoid#space#india#isro

📦Warehouse#16

GreyOrange Butler🇮🇳

An Indian robot that lifts a 1,000-kg shelf and brings it to a human picker.

🇮🇳Made in India📦600+ at Flipkart🦄$1B+ valuation

#warehouse#amr#india#commercial

🛡️Military#17

DRDO Daksh🇮🇳

India's robot that walks up to a bomb so a soldier doesn't have to.

🇮🇳DRDO-built🛡️Army-inducted⚛️X-ray vision

#military#eod#india#tracked

🐩Quadruped#18

SpotMini🇺🇸

The viral 2018 video of two SpotMinis cooperating to open a door has 60M+ views.

📅2016 prototype🔋All-electric🏠Indoor-friendly

#quadruped#usa#retired#precursor

🇮🇳Service#18

Mitra🇮🇳

The robot that welcomed Ivanka Trump to India.

📅Born 2017🗣️5 Indian languages🏥In Apollo & Manipal

Universal Robots UR5🇩🇰

It works beside humans without a safety cage — and started the cobot revolution.

🤝No cage needed🌍75,000+ deployed⚖️5 kg payload

#cobot#industrial#denmark#commercial

🦾Industrial#20

KUKA KR AGILUS🇩🇪

The orange arm that built your car — KUKA invented the 6-axis robot template.

🇩🇪Born 1973🚗Builds your car🛠️6 axes

#industrial#germany#arm#iconic