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Robotnik can refer to:
- a newspaper of the Polish Socialist Party, published in various places and times, with breaks, from 1894 to 2003. Most known versions include:
- Robotnik (1894–1939), a newspaper of Piłsudski's Polish Socialist Party
- Robotnik (1896-1917), a newspaper published in New York by Polish-American adherents of the Polish Socialist Party
- Robotnik (1983–1990), an underground newspaper published by the left wing of the Solidarity movement and later by the reborn Polish Socialist Party
- The Robotnik Family from Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
- Doctor Ivo Robotnik, also known by the alias Eggman, the main antagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog
- Professor Gerald Robotnik, the grandfather of Dr. Robotnik
- Maria Robotnik, the granddaughter of Gerald Robotnik, and the cousin of Doctor Eggman
- Peasants in the Czech lands (at the time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire) who revolted against rich landowners in the late 19th century were called "robotniks," derived from the Czech words for "work" and "forced labor" and an older Slavic term for " slave."
- The word for "worker" in Czech, Polish, and Slovak languages.
- The company Robotnik Automation, specialized in Robotics.
Robotnik (; The Worker) was the bibuła (underground) newspaper published by the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), and distributed in most major cities and towns in Poland under Partitions.
Robotnik was first published on 12 July 1894 in Lipniszki near Wilno in the amount of 1,200 copies, by the local branch of the then-illegal PPS, led by the future Chief of State of the Second Polish Republic, Józef Piłsudski. Among its other editors was Stanisław Wojciechowski, future president of Poland. In order to throw the ochrana secret police and regular Russian police off track, the newspaper was first distributed in Warsaw. Piłdsudski would become one of the chief editors and writers for the newspaper, and he often spent most of the day at the printing press. In 1900 the police managed to find the printing press, leading to the arrest, sentencing, and imprisonment of Józef Piłsudski and several other members of PPS (including his wife, Maria Piłsudska), although Piłsudski would soon escape by feigning mental illness.
In the following years Robotnik would be printed in various places by several groups of PPS, or related to it. From 1915 Robotnik was legalized; the first legal issue was printed in Dąbrowa Górnicza. From 1919 to 1939 it became a normal, legal newspaper in the Second Polish Republic. Among its editors were Feliks Perl (died 1927) and Mieczysław Niedziałkowski (1927–1939). Its notable contributors included Zygmunt Zaremba, Stanisław Posner, Karol Irzykowski, Cezary Jellenta and Jan Nepomucen Miller, and its circulation reached 10–20,000 issues. The last issue was released on 23 September 1939, in the fourth week of the Polish September Campaign.
After the May Coup (in 1926) of Piłsudski, who after the First World War distanced himself from PPS, Robotnik took an opposition stance towards his government; in return, some of its editions were subject to confiscations (only from 1926 to 1935 about 500 issues were confiscated).The journal was a strong supporter of PPS and socialism in general; among the notable policies opposed by the journal was that of anti-semitism.
After the war several newspapers of that name were printed in Poland and abroad; among the most notable was another underground paper published by the Solidarity movement from 1983–1990.
Robotnik (The Worker) was the name of an underground newspaper ( bibuła) published by the democratic socialist wing of the Solidarity resistance movement in the People's Republic of Poland during the period of martial law in Poland, between the years 1983 and 1990. It was named after the Polish Socialist Party pre-war periodical of the same name.