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Please excuse our mess! The robomenu is in the process of being moved to its new home here at robots.net and we are also migrating all the entries to a new database. A few of the features such as adding and editing entries are not yet online and not all the original robots are in the new database yet. Don't worry, we're working on it and should have things in good shape shortly!

Welcome!

Welcome to the robots.net Robomenu, a place where robot builders show off their latest creations. For over five years the robomenu has been the definitive online showcase for robots. Feel free to browse through this gallery of robots. If you have a robot of your own you'd like to add, you're welcome to do so. Users of robots.net can create or edit their own entries in the database anytime. If you're not interested in becoming a member of robots.net but would still like to have your robot displayed here, we'd be happy to add it - just let us know!

Statistics

Everyone likes a few good statistics, so here are the robomenu stats:

Total Number of Robots	434
Means of locomotion
3 Wheels	95
2 Wheels	89
4 Wheels	67
Treads	45
6 Legs	34
4 Legs	24
2 Legs	22
Static	22
6 Wheels	8
Propeller	3
Fin movement	2
8 Legs	2
3 Legs	2
24 legs	1
2 wheels, 1 spindledrive	1
4 ILON/MECANUM Omni-directional wheels	1
Stationary	1
12 powered whegs	1
wobbles	1
1 Leg	1
16 Wheels	1
680mm rotor blades	1
13 wheels!	1
Crawls on single leg	1

History

The Robomenu was originally created by Roger Arrick around 1995 to provide a place on the web for robot builders to display their creations. The name was derived from the implementation which was a simple web page in which each menu item was a link to a different robot. The robomenu started out on the Arrick Robotics web server.

In 2001, when we launched the robots.net site, we decided to move the robomenu here from Arrick Robotics. A mirror of the site is still available at the old location along with quite a few other goodies like Trilobots and the ARobot.

These days the robomenu is a PostgreSQL database rather than a simple menu but we decided to stick with the original name since that's what everyone knows it by already. And, besides, there are a half dozen "robot galleries" on the web already - we didn't want to add to the confusion!

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