Abstract Laboratory experimentation using robotics plays an essential role in nursing education. This research to answer the question, How do the use of robots by the nursing students influence the effectiveness, the usefulness, and user friendliness of, their satisfaction with, this kind of education technology for a clinical experience. Furthermore, this technology provide additional benefits such as supporting distance learning, improving lab accessibility to handicapped people, and increasing safety for dangerous experimentation. This paper analyzes the literature on robotics labs in nursing education from its beginnings to 2019, identifying the most influential publications, the most researched topics, and how the interest in those topics has evolved along the way. To do so, bibliographical data gathered from ISI Web of Science, Scopus and MedLine have been examined using two prominent bibliometric approaches: science mapping and performance analysis prominent bibliometric approaches: science mapping and performance analysis.