I love that someone made this! It's not mobile-friendly but I was content to pan and zoom on my phone just to read about some robots. Fun to look at. I remember building a "robot" of the 3-wheeled kit variety at the Pacific Science Center in the 1990s. My kids just built some toothbrush robots at the local library. They certainly occupy a huge and yet curiously ignored part of human consciousness.

R.O.B. from Nintendo is missing.

no, it's there. Not so easy to find perhaps:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/Rob.html

“Compurobot”¹ and “George”² were both obviously based on the design of V.I.N.CENT³ from Disney’s 1979 (live action) science fiction movie The Black Hole.

1. http://www.theoldrobots.com/compurobot1.html

2. http://www.theoldrobots.com/compurobot3.html

3. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078869/mediaviewer/rm366124518...

I have a George sitting on a shelf. I feel like powering it up and watching the Black Hole now.

MST3K's Tom Servo bears a striking resemblance to the Quasar Klatu robot:

http://www.theoldrobots.com/QuasarKlatu.html

Big Trak is probably the first device I ever programmed. I've got a picture of me as a kid in a plaid shirt squatting on the floor programming my Big Trak. Not much has changed in 35 years.

It's really the most elegant way to transport 4 D batteries and a 9 volt across the living room floor.

For the people struggling to find it: (I did for a few minutes)

http://www.theoldrobots.com/smallbot6.html

I had an Omnibot 2000 as a kid, which you could program motions into and record them onto cassette tape for reply. This taught me a great deal about sensitive dependence on initial conditions!

Neat. I have an Armdroid 1000 (in blue) - http://www.theoldrobots.com/clone.html

My super armatron still works, and it was in a house fire at one stage covered in smoke residue.

Oh cool! I have a StarStrider that still works, and I love it. This is a terrific site.

Teddy Ruxpin holds an outsized place in my heart.

What an absolutely wonderful little website