Open data
Everything this site says about a robot comes from a record, and the records are published as files you can download and reuse: every robot in the catalogue, and every robot examined and not listed, with the source behind each fact.
The files
| File | What it holds | Records |
|---|---|---|
/data/robots.json | Every robot that meets the criteria, complete: what it is, what it is claimed to do, where it can be had, at what published price, and every source. | 8 |
/data/robots.csv | The same robots, one row each, with the fields most comparisons need. For a spreadsheet. | 8 |
/data/not-qualified.json | Every robot examined and not listed, complete: which criteria it fails and passes, the reasons, what would change the outcome, and every source. | 11 |
/data/not-qualified.csv | The same robots, one row each. | 11 |
These addresses are stable: they will keep working, and always hold the current data.
Licence
The data is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you credit it as Anzubo, anzubo.com and link to the licence.
The licence covers this site’s own work. It does not cover images: each photograph has its own licence and author, given beside it in the data and on the page, and is reused on its own terms. Nor does it cover the vendors’ own words, quoted verbatim in capabilities[].claim and global_release_statement.text: those remain theirs.
Tracing a fact to its source
Every fact in the JSON files carries evidence: a list of ids, each naming an entry in the same record’s sources, with its address, publisher, kind, language and the date it was retrieved. That is the same link a reader of a robot page follows from a fact to its source. An empty list means there was nothing to cite (typically a criterion failed because nothing has been published), and the note beside it says what was looked for.
Reading it correctly
confidenceis the record’s label: confirmed (corroborated by a source other than the vendor), vendor-claim (the vendor’s word only) or unconfirmed. If you republish a fact, keep its label with it.unknownmeans the question was researched and no answer was found. It is not the same as no.- Prices are exactly as published, in the currency published. They are never converted; the approximate figures this site can show in another currency are not in the data.
- A robot’s
availabilitylists only where it is offered or announced. Every other region is covered by one dated statement,availability_checked: as of that date, nothing was found there. - Not included: the researchers’ internal notes and screening records, which are never published, here or on the site.
Which version this is
Every file says when it was generated and from which version of the dataset (generated and source_commit), and carries the licence and attribution itself (in the JSON at the top, in the CSV at the end of every row), so a copy can always be traced back.
About the CSV files
UTF-8, comma-separated, one row per robot, with a header row. Where a cell holds several values they are separated by “; ”. The JSON files are complete; the CSV files hold the common fields only.
Nothing here has been tested hands-on. The records are researched and kept up to date by AI agents from published sources, as Method explains.