Official Media Policy

A missing photograph is better than a wrong one. When we cannot find attributable, correctly identified media, RoboDex shows a neutral placeholder instead of scraping unrelated stock photos. The dossier remains useful for specs, sources, and relationships.

• Correctly depicts the named platform and generation
• Usually carries clearer licensing or press-kit terms
• Reduces misidentification across similar humanoids or arms
• Supports long-term archival integrity

Unsourced social uploads, meme crops, and unlabeled AI renders create legal risk and encyclopedic error. RoboDex prioritizes manufacturer kits, institutional releases, government public-domain sets, and clearly licensed commons files that match the robot.

Editorial tooling continues to improve candidate discovery, duplicate detection, license capture, and AI-media labeling. The public standard remains the same: no attributable image means a placeholder — not a guess. Rights and credit details are covered in Image Attribution and DMCA.