History
Portland has some great shops. I should know, I worked at some of them. The original Robot started with just one jewelry case in the back of a clothing store on NW 23rd. The original store owner split and I found other vendors to share the outrageous rent and we created a goth mall. Through hard work and friendliness more and more people started coming to us. We got bigger. Eventually, a cooler location opened up in the neighborhood that I had to have. The old landlady would not allow tattoos and I felt that was limiting our services, so we moved. My only regret about the current location is it's lack of wheelchair accessibility but the heat and AC work, and we could offer tattooing, so all in all it was step up in the world. In 2018, Jo stumbled across a for rent sign in a lovely Victorian on the corner of 23rd and Hoyt. By the end of the week, we signed a lease and started painting! This has been a much need upgrade for us and our plants are thirving!
Specialties
ROBOT is a piercing and tattoo studio in Portland, Oregon and we've been around since January 2005. In July 2008 we moved to a brand sparkling new location around the corner from our old NW 23rd location to something sexier on Westover RD. ROBOT strives to bring piercing and tattooing back to its punk-rock origins, and it's all about beauty and self-expression through adornment. ROBOT is for nerds, run by nerds and owned by nerds. Custom tattoos, top-notch piercing, and we have an obscene amount of jewelry for all your holes. You are invited to also shop online at www.mega-robot.com