Robo
Encyclopedia
Robo may refer to someone with the second name Robinson.
- ROBOROBORobo is a Colombian-American drummer. He was the drummer for the Misfits, and first gained recognition as a drummer for Black Flag.-Life and career:...
(born 1955), Roberto Valverde, drummer in punk bands Black Flag and The Misfits - Robo (Chrono Trigger), a playable character in the 1995 video game Chrono Trigger
- Robotrippin, non-medical use of the pharmaceutical dextromethorphan (DXM or Robo)
- Robo, an aircraft design study undertaken in the late 1950s for a Rocket Bomber, absorbed into the abortive X-20 Dyna-SoarX-20 Dyna-SoarThe X-20 Dyna-Soar was a United States Air Force program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites...
project - robotRobotA robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
, an electro-mechanical device that can perform autonomous or preprogrammed tasks - Robomower, the robotic mulching lawnmower sold by Friendly Robotics
- Roborovski hamsterRoborovski hamsterRoborovskis or desert hamsters are the smallest of all hamsters, averaging under an inch at birth, and three inches during adulthood...
, the smallest and fastest breed of Hamster. Kept as a domestic pet. - Roundabout (gene)Roundabout (gene)Roundabout is the gene for the Roundabout receptor. There is a family of Robo transmembrane receptors and they are the canonical receptors for the signaling molecule Slit, although there may be more Slit receptors besides Robo...
, the DrosophilaDrosophilaDrosophila is a genus of small flies, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "fruit flies" or more appropriately pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit...
melanogaster gene involved in axon guidance in the CNS
Films
- RoboCopRoboCopRoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in the near future, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop"...
(1987) - Robo - The Telugu version of the 2010 Tamil film, Enthiran.