Recent advances in robotics pave new directions for our society and are destined to impact the entire breadth of the geoprofession (engineering and science), including the way we characterize, design, monitor and quantify risk of geo-systems. Robotic platforms provide an opportunity for spatially distributed, mobile, sensing that enable unprecedented data-driven characterization opportunities and optimized monitoring on the most critical areas and with the appropriate types of measurements. Robotic platforms not only have unprecedented sensing capabilities, but also outstanding, untapped, computational capabilities that can promote data fusion and lead to better characterization of the interaction of geosystems with the environment. Examples of ongoing research efforts related to post-earthquake reconnaissance and methane emissions from modern landfills using the capabilities of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Unmanned Land-based Vehicles to improve our understanding of geo-processes and promote resiliency and sustainability of geo-infrastructure systems will be presented.