# The most famous real robots in history

Not movie robots but real machines: from the first industrial robot, Unimate, through ASIMO and AIBO to Spot, Atlas and the rovers on Mars. Which one impressed you most?

- 3 votes · 15 items
- Jan 12, 2023 · Adrian Baumann
- https://even.best/en/l/2403/the-most-famous-real-robots-in-history

## Top 15

1. **WABOT-1** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The first full-scale humanoid robot, from Japan, 1973.
2. **AIBO** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sony's 1999 robot dog.
3. **Elektro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Westinghouse's smoking robot at the 1939 World's Fair.
4. **Unimate** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The first industrial robot, at General Motors from 1961.
5. **Shakey** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The first mobile robot to "reason" about its own actions.
6. **Genghis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A six-legged walking robot from MIT.
7. **Sojourner** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The first rover on Mars, 1997.
8. **Kismet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The MIT head that could show emotions.
9. **ASIMO** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Honda's humanoid that climbed stairs and ran from 2000.
10. **da Vinci Surgical System** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The surgical robot used by surgeons all over the world.
11. **Roomba** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — iRobot's robot vacuum, in millions of homes from 2002.
12. **Curiosity** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — NASA's Mars rover, in Gale Crater since 2012.
13. **Atlas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Boston Dynamics' humanoid that does backflips.
14. **Sophia** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Hanson Robotics robot that was granted Saudi citizenship in 2017.
15. **Spot** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Boston Dynamics' yellow robot dog.

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.