Journal History
| 2012 | The inaugural issue was released. Robotics was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2013 | Robotics was indexed in DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (Universität Trier). Robotics was indexed in Inspec (IET). |
| 2016 | Robotics was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2017 | Robotics was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 3 (Issue 1). Robotics announced the first edition of the Travel Award. |
| 2019 | Robotics received its CiteScore (2018) of 1.53. |
| 2020 | Robotics received its CiteScore (2019) of 2.5. |
| 2021 | Robotics received its CiteScore (2020) of 3.5. |
| 2022 | Robotics received its CiteScore (2021) of 4.9. |
| 2023 | Robotics received its first Impact Factor (3.7). Robotics received its CiteScore (2022) of 5.9. |
| 2024 | Robotics adopted a monthly publication schedule. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2012–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Huosheng Hu |
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Marco Ceccarelli |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2020–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone for the Section on Intelligent Robots and Mechatronics |
| 2020–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gursel Alici for the Section on Soft Robotics Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Sabatini for the Section on Aerospace Robotics and Autonomous Systems |
| 2022–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Xinjun Liu for the Section on Industrial Robots & Automation |
| 2022–2024 |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Antonio Frisoli for the Section on Humanoid and Human Robotics |
| 2023–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Saïd Zeghloul for the Section on Medical Robotics and Service Robotics |
| 2024–present |
Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. David Portugal for the Section on Agricultural and Field Robotics |
