In this study, a PID-type controller incorporating an adaptive learning scheme for the mixed H 2 /H tracking performance is developed for constrained robots under unknown or uncertain plant parameters and external disturbances. The mixed H 2 /H control design has the advantage of both H 2 optimal control performance and H robust control performance and the adaptive control scheme is used to compensate the plant uncertainties. By virtue of the skew-symmetric property of the constrained robotic systems and an adequate choice of state variable transformation, sufficient conditions are developed for the adaptive mixed H 2 /H tracking control problems in terms of a pair of coupled algebraic equations instead of a pair of coupled nonlinear differential equations. The proposed methods are simple and the coupled algebraic equations can be solved analytically. Simulation results indicate that the desired performance of the proposed adaptive mixed H 2 /H tracking control schemes for the uncertain constrained robotic systems can be achieved.