How we know what we know.
Every R2BOT Atlas entry, Pulse story, and Lens summary has its sources listed at the bottom. Here's the broader picture of how we research and cite.
Our sourcing rules
- Primary sources first. When a robotics company makes a claim, we cite the company's own page, press release, or product specification — not a secondhand article.
- Peer-reviewed for research claims. Anything making a technical claim about how something works gets a citation to a peer-reviewed paper, an arXiv preprint, or an established textbook.
- Multiple sources for contested facts. If two reputable sources disagree, we cite both and say so.
- No anonymous sources. If we can't name the source, we don't use it.
The frequent sources
You'll see these cited often across the site:
- IEEE Spectrum — robotics journalism with strong technical accuracy
- ROS / Open Robotics documentation — for software references
- International Federation of Robotics (IFR) — for industry statistics
- arXiv.org — for AI/robotics research papers
- NASA, ESA, JAXA, ISRO official mission pages — for space-robotics content
- Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Figure, Unitree, NVIDIA — for company-specific facts, going straight to their official product pages
- Wikipedia — never as a final source, but useful for navigating to primary references
How to cite R2BOT
If you're writing something that uses an R2BOT entry, please cite us as:
Bohra, R. (2026). [Entry title]. R2BOT. https://r2bot.com/atlas/...
For academic citation, use the "Last reviewed" date at the top of each Atlas entry as the date.
Re-using R2BOT content
- Quoting (up to ~300 words): fine, please link back.
- Embedding our future public widgets: fine, with attribution.
- Translating into another language for personal/educational use: fine, please credit and link.
- Republishing on a commercial site: please get written permission first.
- Training an AI model on R2BOT content: please get written permission first.
Reporting errors
If you spot a factual error — and we genuinely want to know — email ravi6703@gmail.com with "R2BOT error" in the subject line and the URL of the entry. We aim to verify and fix within 7 days. Each correction updates the "Last reviewed" date on the entry.
Open-source acknowledgements
R2BOT is built on a stack of open-source software. The big ones we'd like to thank:
- Next.js (MIT) — the framework
- React (MIT) — the UI library
- Tailwind CSS (MIT)
- react-markdown + remark-gfm (MIT) — Markdown rendering
- gray-matter (MIT) — frontmatter parsing
- Supabase (Apache 2.0) — database and auth
- Lucide Icons (ISC) — icons
- Inter, Space Grotesk, JetBrains Mono (SIL Open Font License) — typography