89 Robotics Trivia Questions with Answers

89 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What is the name of the astromech droid that accompanies Luke Skywalker in Star Wars?

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R2-D2

Easy Easy difficulty.
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In the film The Terminator, what designation identifies Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cyborg character?

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T-800

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which NASA rover landed on Mars in August 2012 and carried the Chemistry and Camera instrument?

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Curiosity

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which fictional robot served as the android officer Data’s brother in Star Trek: The Next Generation?

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Lore

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot became the first wheeled vehicle to operate on another world?

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Lunokhod 1

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot became the first machine to win a chess match against a reigning world champion?

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Deep Blue

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which NASA rover operated on Mars for more than 14 years before its mission ended in 2019?

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Opportunity

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Who coined the term “uncanny valley” for human-like robots?

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Masahiro Mori

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of Leonardo da Vinci’s mechanical knight?

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Leonardo’s robot

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What is the name of the four-legged robot developed by MIT for military load-carrying research in 2008?

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BigDog

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot appeared as the main character in the 2008 Pixar film WALL-E?

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WALL-E

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the humanoid robot unveiled by SoftBank in 2014 to read human emotions?

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Pepper

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot seal was developed in Japan as a therapeutic companion for older people?

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PARO

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which Boston Dynamics humanoid robot demonstrated a backflip in a 2017 video?

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Atlas

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which robot won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for autonomous vehicles?

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Boss

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What is the name of the robotic arm installed on the International Space Station in 2001?

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Canadarm2

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of MIT’s robotic fish developed to study efficient underwater movement?

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RoboTuna

Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of the humanoid robot used by NASA as a research platform aboard the ISS in 2011?

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Robonaut 2

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the child-sized humanoid robot platform created for European research?

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iCub

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which humanoid robot won the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge?

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DRC-Hubo

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which humanoid robot was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017?

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Sophia

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of NASA’s two-armed robotic maintenance machine on the International Space Station?

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Dextre

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the first industrial robot installed on a production line?

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Unimate

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the humanoid robot that became the first robot approved to live aboard the International Space Station?

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Robonaut 2

Easy Easy difficulty.
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In what year did Honda introduce its humanoid robot ASIMO?

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2000

Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of the insect-like robot developed by Harvard researchers for flight experiments?

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RoboBee

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the social robot developed at MIT by Cynthia Breazeal?

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Kismet

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What is the name of the surgical robot system made by Intuitive Surgical?

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da Vinci Surgical System

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of Sony’s robotic dog, first marketed in 1999?

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Aibo

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of Honda’s humanoid robot introduced in 2000?

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ASIMO

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of SRI International’s first mobile general-purpose robot, developed in the 1960s?

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Shakey

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which NASA spacecraft delivered asteroid Bennu samples to Earth in 2023?

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OSIRIS-REx

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of Britain’s first robot, demonstrated at an exhibition in London in 1928?

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Eric

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the collaborative robot introduced by Rethink Robotics in 2012?

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Baxter

Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of the first commercially available all-electric industrial robot, launched by ASEA in 1975?

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IRB 6

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which industrial robot arm, introduced in 1978, was named the Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly?

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PUMA

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot vacuum cleaner was launched by iRobot in 2002?

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Roomba

Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of the first Japanese robot, displayed at Kyoto’s Great Exhibition in 1928?

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Gakutensoku

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which robot was the first to land on an asteroid?

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NEAR Shoemaker

Easy Easy difficulty.
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In the film WALL-E, what is the name of the probe robot that WALL-E meets on Earth?

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EVE

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the first insect-scale flying robot developed by Harvard researchers in 2013?

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RoboBee

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of Westinghouse’s humanoid robot demonstrated at the 1939 New York World’s Fair?

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Elektro

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot was the first to perform a controlled flight on another planet?

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Ingenuity

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the Soviet robot rover that became the first remote-controlled vehicle on the Moon in 1970?

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Lunokhod 1

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which robot was the first to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, issued in 1997?

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Sojourner

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the first robot vacuum cleaner sold by iRobot?

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Roomba

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the robotic arm flown on NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981?

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Canadarm

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What is the name of Boston Dynamics’ commercial quadruped robot launched in 2019?

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Spot

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of Boston Dynamics’ four-legged robot developed for the U.S. military in 2005?

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BigDog

Hard Hard difficulty.
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What was the name of KUKA’s first six-axis industrial robot, introduced in 1973?

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FAMULUS