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The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile benefits from shocks and gets better.

This is quite thoroughly explained in the book, the anti-fragile benefits from adversity, the resilient does not.

Nothing new under the sun, kids. Hormesis. Look it up.

http://gettingstronger.org/stoicism/

The whole point of the word is that "resilience" has different associations. Resilience is typically associated with the ability to withstand damage, whereas antifragility is the ability to recover from damage.

In general I agree with you. But in this case the point of the term is to highlight the contrast against the "fragile".