Free robot SVG files

Robots built from simple shapes

These robots are made the way a child draws one: boxes for the head and body, rods for the arms, circles for the joints and eyes. That makes them easy to cut. The eyes of the toy robot are about 9 mm across when the robot is 100 mm tall and the smallest holes, the slots of its mouth, are about 4 mm wide, so it weeds cleanly from about 70 mm tall. The simple robot icon and the robot face have much bigger features and can go down to 30 mm.

Because the eyes, screen and buttons are cut-outs, they show in whatever is behind the robot. Back it with a bright card, glitter or glow-in-the-dark vinyl and the robot looks switched on.

For clubs, parties and bedrooms

The robotics badge and the robot arm are for teams and classrooms: the badge has a head inside a ring of sixteen gear teeth, and the arm is a factory arm with a gripper. The robot holding a blank sign takes a name or an age on its board for a birthday. The cartoon robot, the robot dog and the three robots in a row suit a bedroom wall, a toy box or party bags.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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