Robot Coloring Pages

Robot coloring pages are full of bolts, dials, antennae and claws, and no two are alike. Print a boxy tin robot with a wind-up key, a round helper robot carrying a tray, a robot dog, a tall robot on wheels or a sheet of parts for building your own. Every robot here is an original design, waiting for a color scheme and a name.

Types of robot coloring pages

  • Retro tin robots: square heads, claw hands and a wind-up key, like toys from the 1950s.
  • Helper robots: rounded, friendly machines that carry trays and water the plants.
  • Robot animals: dogs and cats built from metal plates and springs.
  • Giant robots: as tall as buildings, striding past skyscrapers.
  • Space robots: six-wheeled rovers with a camera on a mast.
  • Factory robots: the real thing: a jointed arm bolted to the floor.
  • Build-your-own: a sheet of heads, bodies, arms and legs to cut out and combine.

Real robot facts, and how to color metal

The word robot is about a hundred years old. It comes from a Czech play written in 1920, and it grew out of a Czech word for forced labor.

Most real robots look nothing like people. The most common kind is a single jointed arm in a factory, which welds, paints and lifts the same way thousands of times a day. Other robots vacuum floors, explore the deep sea, help surgeons and drive across Mars taking photos and testing rocks. A robot needs three things: sensors to notice the world, a computer to decide what to do and motors to move.

To color metal:

  1. Pick a base: gray for steel, yellow-brown for brass, orange-brown for copper, or any bright color for painted metal.
  2. Shade one side of every shape darker. Boxes get one light face, one medium and one dark.
  3. Leave a white stripe on tubes and round parts, running along their length.
  4. Add small details last: red and green lights, black rubber joints, yellow-and-black warning stripes.

Rust is fun to add to an old robot. Dab orange and brown around the bolts and along the bottom edges.

Frequently asked questions

Are these robot coloring pages free?

Yes. All robot coloring pages are free to download and print for personal and classroom use.

Do you have easy robot coloring pages for preschoolers?

Yes. The Easy robots are built from squares, circles and rectangles with thick outlines. They double as a shapes lesson: count the circles, then color all the squares one color.

Can I build my own robot?

Yes. Print the parts sheet, color the heads, bodies, arms and legs, then cut them out and glue them together in any combination. Add paper fasteners at the joints and the arms will move.

Are these robots from movies or TV shows?

No. They're all original designs, so there are no famous robots here. That leaves the fun part to you: name your robot, decide what it's built to do and write it on the page.