• 26 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Robot Text Art

Tap a robot to copy every line of it; the first holds a sign you can type on.

Robot Text Art

o __|__ .------------. | o o | | YOUR WORDS | |_[=]_| '-----.------' .--| |--. | | === |==========o |_______| || || _||_||_Robot holding a sign9 lines, 27 wideReady to copy

26 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 2

One line 3

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 12

Large, 10 lines and up 2

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How it works

Robot text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 26 pieces, with a boxy robot in three sizes, three heads, faces that are on, broken and asleep, a wind-up toy, a factory arm and a robot on tracks.

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Built from boxes

A head is a frame of periods, hyphens and bars with two letters o for eyes, and a plus sign joins it to an antenna or a neck. Square brackets make switches and square eyes. Big boxy robot is the tallest, 17 lines by 21 columns.

Two that carry your words

Robot holding a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS. Robot with a speech bubble takes 10 in place of BEEP BOOP. Pad a shorter line with spaces so the frame stays closed.

  • Squash-proof has six pieces with no run of spaces: three one-liners, a whole robot, a head and an error face.
  • Sixteen of the 26 pieces have no backslash in them; ten do.
  • The robot emoji and one-line text robots are on robot emoji.

Questions and answers

How do I make a robot out of keyboard characters?

Type square brackets around two eyes and a mouth, [o=o], and under it a bar, three underscores and a bar. That is Squash-proof robot head, ten characters. Small boxy robot adds antennas, arms and feet in four lines.

What is the biggest robot here?

Big boxy robot: 17 lines by 21 columns, with a speaker grille, three chest lights, two switches and blocky feet. Robot dancing is next at 10 lines.

Which robot shows an error?

Robot face: error has crosses for eyes and the word ERROR for a mouth. Squash-proof robot error is the same face with periods in the gaps, and the last head in Robot row on one line is [x_x].

All 26 pieces

Your own words 2

  • Robot holding a sign A boxy robot holding a signboard up on a pole with one long arm. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, and pad a shorter word with spaces. 9 lines, 27 wide.
  • Robot with a speech bubble A robot head with a speech bubble. Type over BEEP BOOP., 10 characters, with your own line. 6 lines, 24 wide.

One line 3

  • Robot face on one line A square-bracket head with an equals sign for a mouth and a dash for each ear. 1 line, 7 wide.
  • Robot row on one line Four heads in a line: awake, pleased, asleep and broken. 1 line, 23 wide.
  • Robot says beep, one line A robot head, an angle bracket and what it says. 1 line, 16 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Floor-cleaning robot A low round robot seen from the side, one button on top, two small wheels, and a little dust behind it. 4 lines, 26 wide.
  • Four small robots in a row Four small robots side by side, each with a different face. 3 lines, 27 wide.
  • Robot face: error Crosses for eyes, the word ERROR where the mouth was, and a question mark above. 4 lines, 15 wide.
  • Robot face: switched on Square eyes with lights on and a smile. 4 lines, 13 wide.
  • Small boxy robot Four lines: two antennas, a head, a body with arms and two feet. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Squash-proof robot error The error face with its gaps filled by periods. 4 lines, 9 wide.
  • Squash-proof robot head Brackets around two eyes and a mouth, and a chin under them: ten characters in all. 2 lines, 5 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 12

  • Boxy robot, medium A robot from the front: an antenna, a square head, a body with one chest button, arms out and two legs. 9 lines, 9 wide.
  • Factory robot arm A jointed arm on a heavy base: a shoulder, an elbow, a wrist and a two-finger gripper. 8 lines, 19 wide.
  • Robot asleep on charge Eyes shut, two z's, and a cable running from under the chin to a plug. 6 lines, 15 wide.
  • Robot carrying a flower A robot holding a flower out at arm's length. 9 lines, 16 wide.
  • Robot head with an antenna A head alone: one antenna with a star on top, round eyes and a wide smile. 7 lines, 10 wide.
  • Robot head with dials A head with a dial for each eye, a slot for a mouth and a knob on each side. 5 lines, 16 wide.
  • Robot head, screen face A head that is a screen: the face is drawn inside a second frame, on a short neck. 7 lines, 16 wide.
  • Robot on tracks A head and a body on one long crawler track with five wheels inside it. 8 lines, 13 wide.
  • Robot on wheels A robot with no legs: the body sits straight on two wheels. 8 lines, 8 wide.
  • Robot waving The medium robot with its right arm raised and the other at its side. 9 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof robot A whole robot on six rows: antenna, head, body, arms and feet, with no blank in it. 6 lines, 5 wide.
  • Wind-up tin robot A toy robot with a grid of rivets on its chest and a winding key sticking out of its side. 8 lines, 15 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 2

  • Big boxy robot The tallest here: a head with a speaker grille, a chest panel of three lights, two switches, arms at its sides and blocky feet. 17 lines, 21 wide.
  • Robot dancing Both arms thrown up in a V and the legs stepping apart. 10 lines, 18 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and no robot from a named film, show, game or toy line and no maker's product is drawn. Most of them share one construction of this site's own: a head framed in periods, hyphens and bars with two letters o for eyes, a plus sign where an antenna or a neck joins, and square brackets for switches and square eyes. All 26 read as a robot at the first look and were kept. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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