ASIMO
Honda·Japan·2000·Bipedal walking
Humanoids Collection
Robots That Changed The World
Eight machines that rewrote what robotics could mean.
8 robots·10 min read·Humanoids
Featured robots
Ranked entries in this collection.
ASIMO Roomba 
Roomba
88iRobot·USA·2002·Navigation
Spot 
Spot
Boston Dynamics·USA·2019·Quadrupedal locomotion
Atlas 
Atlas
Boston Dynamics·USA·2024·Bipedal locomotion
da Vinci Surgical System 
da Vinci Surgical System
95Intuitive Surgical·USA·2000·Teleoperation
Aibo 
Aibo
86Sony·Japan·1999·Vision
Optimus 
Optimus
Tesla·USA·2022·Bipedal locomotion
Shakey the Robot 
Shakey the Robot
90SRI International·USA·1966·Planning
Some robots matter because they shipped. Others matter because they proved an idea was possible. This collection holds both.
It is editorial museum content — the same eight platforms featured on the RoboDex homepage — maintained as a Studio collection for reuse across exhibits.
“A landmark robot is measured by the questions it makes inevitable.”
8Robots
5Companies
4Technologies
2Countries
Key insights
Museum exhibit
Manually curated — not an algorithmic “featured robots” rail.
Timeline
- 1966
Shakey
Reasoning + planning in a mobile robot.
- 1999
Aibo
Emotional consumer robotics enters homes.
- 2000
ASIMO & da Vinci
Public humanoids and clinical robotics scale.
- 2022
Optimus
Mass-market humanoid ambition goes mainstream.
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