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Robotics in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of robotics news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about robots or robotics, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index, robotics rose from 18.17 to 22.39 articles per 10,000 news articles between 2019 and 2025, a 23.2% increase in its share of coverage, after a low of 14.34 per 10,000 in 2020.
Basis: Annual robotics articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year; 285,504 matched articles from January 2019 to July 2026.
Between 2019 and 2025, January carried on average 10.23% of each year's robotics news, the largest share of any month and above the 8.33% expected from an even spread; January is the month of the annual Consumer Electronics Show.
Basis: Within-year month shares averaged over the complete years 2019–2025.
Of robotics news articles carrying a tone label between January 2023 and July 2026, 92.9% were positive in tone, 1.64 times the 56.8% positive share across all news, and only 6.2% were negative, against 33.6% for all news.
Basis: Top sentiment label of each article, grouped into negative, neutral and positive; 99.9% of sampled articles carry a label.
Household service robots were the most frequent theme in robotics news between January 2023 and July 2026, carried by 7.25% of themed articles (6,888 articles), ahead of entertainment and companion robots (6.62%).
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article in the January 2023 – July 2026 window.
Research papers with robot, robotic or robotics in the title rose from 21.61 to 46.99 per 10,000 published papers between 2015 and 2025, a 2.17-fold increase in the topic's share of the scientific literature.
Basis: 227,037 de-duplicated articles and reviews 2015–2025 with robotics terms in the title, repository deposits and other senses (office-software automation, aerosol monitoring networks) excluded.
Charts and maps
Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 32,442 | 47.75% | 0.99 |
| China | 6,155 | 9.06% | 3.44 |
| India | 4,419 | 6.5% | 0.49 |
| United Kingdom | 3,638 | 5.35% | 0.92 |
| Germany | 2,663 | 3.92% | 3.33 |
| Japan | 2,299 | 3.38% | 3.18 |
| Canada | 1,373 | 2.02% | 0.94 |
| Singapore | 1,340 | 1.97% | 2.21 |
| Australia | 1,173 | 1.73% | 0.81 |
| South Korea | 1,145 | 1.69% | 2.81 |
| France | 979 | 1.44% | 0.73 |
| Switzerland | 725 | 1.07% | 2.46 |
| United Arab Emirates | 699 | 1.03% | 1.58 |
| Spain | 594 | 0.87% | 0.89 |
| Italy | 584 | 0.86% | 0.89 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "robot" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Robotics in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/robotics/