Table of contents:

• Robot Definition
• Etymology
• History
  • Early modern developments
  • Modern developments
• Timeline
• Contemporary uses
  • Domestic
    • Home Automation Elderly/Disabled
  • Industrial
    • Automated Guided Vehicles
      • Early AGV Style Robots
      • Interim AGV Technologies
      • Newer AGVs
    • Car Production
    • Electronics
    • History
    • Packaging
  • Medical
  • Research
    • Generation Robots
      • 1st Generation
      • 2nd Generation
      • 3rd Generation
    • Haptic Interface Robots
    • Soft Robot
  • Telerobot
• Robotics
  • Origins
  • Components of robots
    • Structure
    • Power source
    • Actuation
    • Manipulation
    • Locomotion
      • Rolling robots
      • Walking robots
      • Other methods of locomotion
    • Environmental interaction and navigation
    • Human interaction
  • Control
  • Dynamics and kinematics
  • Education and Training
    • Employment in robotics
• Robot competition
  • RoboGames
  • Aerial robotic vehicle competitions
  • Ground robotic vehicle competitions
  • Underwater robotic vehicle competitions
  • BEST Robotics
  • International METU Robotics Days
  • IEEE Micromouse competition
  • FIRST competition
  • RoboCup
  • Botball Educational Robotics
  • Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory competition
  • Annual fire-fighting home robot contest
  • Duke Annual Robo-Climb Competition (DARC)
  • AAAI Grand Challenges
  • Centennial Challenges
  • Robofest
  • Robowars
  • Collegiate Robofest
  • International Robot Olympiad
  • Rat's Life robot programming contest
  • ABU RoboCon
  • OFF Road Robotics Competition
  • Defcon Robot Contest (DefconBots)
• Evolutionary robotics
• Potential problems
• Literature
  • List of fictional robots and androids
  • Films
• Further reading
• External links