Robot Emoji

Smileys

A silver or grey mechanical face with glowing circular eyes, a structured mouth, and a pair of antennas sticking out from the top of its head. It carries the classic look of a vintage sci-fi automaton.

Usage Context

Frequently used to signal that a person is feeling robotic or emotionless, to talk about artificial intelligence, or to label automated social media accounts. People often use it alongside 💻 when discussing coding, software development, or tech-related tasks.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0, this icon reflects the cultural shift toward the ubiquity of advanced robotics and AI in daily life, moving away from the old-school retro depictions found in 20th-century media.

Details

Glyph

🤖

Unicode

U+1F916

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f916:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD16;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-costume

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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