diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index aeb7df2279..562f5a4b0e 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -214,7 +214,9 @@
 
 # html_extra_path used to define a path to robots.txt which is used by webcrawlers
 # to ignore or allow certain links.
-html_extra_path = [str(here / "robots.txt")]
+# We've decided to rely on RTD's default robots.txt, so we no longer need to specify a custom one,
+# see discussion at https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro/issues/3741
+# html_extra_path = [str(here / "robots.txt")]
 
 # Removes, from all docs, the copyright footer.
 html_show_copyright = False
diff --git a/docs/source/robots.txt b/docs/source/robots.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e8527497df..0000000000
--- a/docs/source/robots.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-User-agent: *
-Disallow: /
-Allow: /en/stable/
-Allow: /en/0.19.7*
-Allow: /en/0.19.6*
-Allow: /en/0.19.5*
-Allow: /en/0.19.4*
-Allow: /en/0.19.3*
-Allow: /en/0.19.2*
-Allow: /en/0.19.1*
-Allow: /en/0.19.0*
-Allow: /en/0.18.14*
-Allow: /en/0.17.7*
-Allow: /projects/kedro-viz/en/stable/
-Allow: /projects/kedro-datasets/en/kedro-datasets-3.0.0*
-Allow: */sitemap.xml
-
-Sitemap: https://docs.kedro.org/sitemap.xml