diff --git a/sklearn/preprocessing/_data.py b/sklearn/preprocessing/_data.py
index bbb6e6fa80a12..eb3d89b48dc5d 100644
--- a/sklearn/preprocessing/_data.py
+++ b/sklearn/preprocessing/_data.py
@@ -1651,6 +1651,9 @@ def _more_tags(self):
         return {"allow_nan": True}
 
 
+@validate_params(
+    {"X": ["array-like", "sparse matrix"], "axis": [Options(Integral, {0, 1})]}
+)
 def robust_scale(
     X,
     *,
diff --git a/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py b/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
index a6c829b23620f..c7f6c4c2dea53 100644
--- a/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
+++ b/sklearn/tests/test_public_functions.py
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ def test_function_param_validation(func_module):
     ("sklearn.decomposition.fastica", "sklearn.decomposition.FastICA"),
     ("sklearn.decomposition.non_negative_factorization", "sklearn.decomposition.NMF"),
     ("sklearn.preprocessing.minmax_scale", "sklearn.preprocessing.MinMaxScaler"),
+    ("sklearn.preprocessing.robust_scale", "sklearn.preprocessing.RobustScaler"),
 ]