20 Robotics Trivia Questions with Answers

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

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of NASA’s robotic helicopter that made the first powered flight on another planet in 2021?

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Ingenuity

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which 1997 competition uses soccer-playing robots to advance research in artificial intelligence and robotics?

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RoboCup

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the first robot astronaut sent to the International Space Station as a conversational companion?

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Kirobo

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of Honda’s humanoid robot prototype unveiled in 1996 that could walk on two legs?

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P2

Easy Easy difficulty.
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In what year did Sony release the robotic dog AIBO for consumers?

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1999

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of NASA’s humanoid robot that became the first humanoid robot in space in 2011?

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Robonaut 2

Hard Hard difficulty.
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Which word did Isaac Asimov first use in his 1941 short story “Liar!” for the science of robots?

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Robotics

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What is the name of Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot introduced in 2013?

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Atlas

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which MIT robot was designed to recognize and respond to human emotions in the late 1990s?

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Kismet

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which NASA rover became the first wheeled vehicle to operate on Mars in 1997?

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Sojourner

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the first successful robotic rover to operate on another world?

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Lunokhod 1

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What was the name of the first mobile robot able to reason about its actions in its environment?

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Shakey

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which company developed the humanoid robot ASIMO, first unveiled in 2000?

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Honda

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of the first industrial robot, installed at a General Motors factory in 1961?

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Unimate

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which company created the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, first released in 2002?

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iRobot

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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Which robotic system performed the first fully autonomous docking of two spacecraft in orbit in 1967?

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Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188

Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
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What is the name of the robot arm used on the International Space Station for external maintenance?

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Canadarm2

Easy Easy difficulty.
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What was the name of NASA’s robotic rover that landed on Mars in February 2021?

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Perseverance

Easy Easy difficulty.
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Which robot became the first to receive citizenship from a country in 2017?

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Sophia

Easy Easy difficulty.
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In robotics, what does the acronym SLAM stand for?

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Simultaneous localization and mapping