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List of fictional robots and androids

Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.

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This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media. This list is intended for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a humanlike or mobile form. It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history.

Static computers depicted in fiction are discussed in the separate list of fictional computers.

Theatre

  • Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870)
  • The word "robot" comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written in 1920 in the Czech language and first performed 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. Named robots in the play are Marius, Sulla, Radius, Primus, Helena, and Damon. The play introduced and popularized the term "robot". Čapek's robots are biological machines that are assembled, as opposed to grown or born.

    • 19th century and earlier

  • The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
  • From 600 BC onward, legends of talking bronze and clay statues coming to life have been a regular occurrence in the works of classical authors such as Homer, Plato, Pindar, Tacitus, and Pliny. In Book 18 of the Iliad, Hephaestus the god of all mechanical arts, was assisted by two moving female statues made from gold – "living young damsels, filled with minds and wisdoms". Another legend has Hephaestus being commanded by Zeus to create the first woman, Pandora, out of clay. The myth of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, tells of a lonely man who sculpted his ideal woman from ivory, Galatea, and promptly fell in love with her after the goddess Aphrodite brought her to life.
  • Talos, bronze giant Talos in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, 3rd century BCE
  • Brazen heads, attributed to numerous scholars involved in the introduction of Arabian science to medieval Europe, particularly Roger Bacon (13th century)
  • Golem – The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, is mentioned in the Talmud. (16th century)
  • Talus, "iron man" who mechanically helps Arthegall dispense justice in The Faerie Queene, the epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590
  • Olimpia, automaton who captivates the hero Nathanael so much he wishes to marry her in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
  • Artificial human-like being created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)
  • A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' The Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
  • Olympia in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, based on the Hoffmann story (1881)
  • A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
  • Hadaly, a mechanical woman run by electricity, in Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's The Future Eve (1886) – the novel credited with popularizing the word "android"
  • "The Brazen Android" by William Douglas O'Connor. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1891
  • The Dancing Partner by Jerome K.Jerome of Three Men in a Boat fame (1893)
  • "The New Frankenstein" by Ernest Edward Kellett (1899), in which an inventor creates an "anti-phonograph" that according to the narrator "can give the appropriate answer to every question I put", and installs in it a robotic female body that "will guide herself, answer questions, talk and eat like a rational being, in fact, perform the part of a society lady." The android proves convincing enough to fool two suitors who wish to marry her.

    • Early 1900s

  • The "Metal Men" automata designed by a Thomas Edison-like scientist in Gustave Le Rouge's La Conspiration des Milliardaires (1899–1900)
  • Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, premiering in Ozma of Oz (1907), and in the movie Return to Oz, largely based on Ozma of Oz
  • A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce (first published in the San Francisco Examiner on Aug. 16, 1899)
  • In Gaston Leroux's La Poupée Sanglante (The Bloody Doll) and La Machine à Assassiner (The Murdering Machine), the lead character, Bénédict Masson, is wrongly accused of murder and guillotined. His brain is later attached to an automaton created by scientist Jacques Cotentin, and Masson goes on to track and punish those who caused his death.

    • 1920s

  • R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921), by Karel Čapek – credited with coining the term "robot". In its original Czech, "robota" means forced labour, and is derived from "rab", meaning "slave." R.U.R. depicts the first elaborate depiction of a machine take-over. Čapek's robots can also be seen as the first androids: they are in fact organic.
  • Le Singe (The Monkey) (1925), by Maurice Renard and Albert Jean, imagined the creation of artificial lifeforms through the process of "radiogenesis", a sort of human electrocopying or cloning process.
  • The Metal Giants (1926), by Edmond Hamilton, in which a computer brain who runs on atomic power creates an army of 300-foot-tall robots
  • Automata (1929), by S. Fowler Wright, about machines doing the humans' jobs before wiping them out

    • 1930s

  • The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. It was reprinted in five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: The Planet of the Double Sun, The Sunless World, Space War, Twin Worlds and Doomsday on Ajiat.
  • Zat the Martian robot, protagonist of John Wyndham's short story "The Lost Machine" (1932)
  • Human cyborgs in Revolt of the Pedestrians by David H. Keller (1932)
  • Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent (1934)
  • "Helen O'Loy" from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
  • Adam Link of I, Robot by Eando Binder (1938)
  • Robots discover their "roots" in Robots Return by Robert Moore Williams (1938).
  • Robot as murder witness in True Confession by F. Orlin Tremaine (1939)

    • 1940s

  • Gnut in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940), later made into the classic 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Unnamed "living plastic" robot in "Vault of the Beast" (1940), short story by A. E. van Vogt
  • Jay Score ("J20"), emergency pilot of the Earth-to-Venus freighter Upskadaska City (colloquially called "Upsydaisy") in "Jay Score", a short story by Eric Frank Russell in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (1941)
  • Jenkins in City by Clifford D. Simak (1944)
  • Robots by Isaac Asimov:
  • Robbie, Speedy, Cutie, and others, from the stories in I, Robot (1940–1950) (not to be confused with the Binder short story of the same title)
  • L-76, Z-1, Z-2, Z-3, Emma-2, Brackenridge, Tony, Lenny, Ez-27 and others, from the stories in The Rest of the Robots (1964)
  • R. Daneel Olivaw from The Caves of Steel (1954) and subsequent novels
  • R. Giskard Reventlov from The Robots of Dawn (1983) and subsequent novels
  • Andrew Martin from The Bicentennial Man (1976) (later made into a film) and The Positronic Man (a novel), co-written by Asimov and Robert Silverberg
  • Norby in a series of books for children and adolescents, co-written with Janet Asimov
  • The Humanoids from two novels by Jack Williamson (1949 and 1980)

    • 1950s and 1960s

  • Astro Boy, series by Osamu Tezuka ( pub. in Japan but available in English), an atomic-powered robot of 100,000 horsepower built to resemble a little boy, most specifically Tobio, the deceased son of Dr. Tenma. When not in school, Astro Boy spent his time dealing with robots & aliens. (1952)
  • The Gallegher series of stories by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore) collected in Robots Have No Tails (1952)
  • The Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)
  • Bors, an old government integration robot pivotal to Philip K. Dick's novelette The Last of the Masters (1954)
  • Zane Gort, a robot novelist in the short story "The Silver Eggheads" by Fritz Leiber (1959)
  • SHROUD (Synthetic Human, Radiation OUtput Determined) and SHOCK (Synthetic Human Object, Casualty Kinematics), the sentient test dummies in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon (1963)
  • Frost, the Beta-Machine, Mordel, and the Ancient Ore Crusher in Roger Zelazny's short story "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966)
  • Trurl and Klapaucius, the robot geniuses of The Cyberiad (Cyberiada, 1967; translated by Michael Kandel 1974) – collection of humorous stories about the exploits of Trurl and Klapaucius, "constructors" among robots
  • The Iron Man in the novel The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Andrew Davidson (1968), later changed to The Iron Giant to avoid confusion with its predecessor, the comic superhero of the same name
  • Roy Batty, Pris, Rachael and several other Nexus-6 model androids. "Androids, fully organic in nature – the products of genetic engineering – and so human-like that they can only be distinguished by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not human." – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
  • "The Electric Grandmother" in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury (1969), based on a 1962 Twilight Zone episode of the same name
  • Mech Eagles from the novel Logan's Run (1967), robotic eagles designed to track and kill people who refuse to die at age 21

    • 1970s

  • Personoids, in Stanisław Lem's book Próżnia Doskonała (1971). This is a collection of book reviews of nonexistent books, and was translated into English by Michael Kandel as A Perfect Vacuum (1983). "Personoids do not need any human-like physical body; they are rather an abstraction of functions of human mind, they live in computers."
  • The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin – "The masculine plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas"
  • Setaur, Aniel and Terminus in Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanisław Lem (1973)
  • The Hangman in Home Is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny (1975), winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novella
  • Andrew Martin from The Bicentennial Man (1976) by Isaac Asimov and The Positronic Man (1993) by Asimov and Robert Silverberg
  • Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) by Douglas Adams and subsequent novels based on the original radio series

    • 1980s

  • Chip, the robot teenager in the Not Quite Human series (1985–1986) by Seth McEvoy. Disney later made the book into three movies.
  • Roderick (1980) and Tik-Tok (1983) by John Sladek, two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent and one perfectly criminal
  • The Boppers, a race of moon-based robots that achieve independence from humanity, in the series of books The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker
  • R. Giskard Reventlov from The Robots of Dawn (1983) and subsequent novels by Isacc Asimov
  • All Autobots and Decepticons from the Transformers franchise (since 1984)
  • Elio, a character from A Tale of Time City (1987) by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Manders in The Type One Super Robot (1987), a children's book by Alison Prince
  • Solo from Robert Mason's novels Weapon (1989) and Solo (1993) – Note, the 1996 film titled Solo is based solely on the first novel, Weapon.
  • Conal Cochran's androids who serve central antagonists/villains in Halloween III: Season of the Witch, a non-Halloween consecutive film

    • 1990s

  • Yod in Marge Piercy's He, She and It (1991)
  • The One Who Waits in Charles Sheffield's Divergence (1991)
  • Caliban in a trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen, set in the robots universe of Isaac Asimov (1993)
  • Solo and Nimrod in Robert Mason's novel Solo (1993)
  • Jay-Dub and Dee Model in Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal (1996)
  • Dorfl, and other Discworld golems deliberately described in terms reminiscent of an Asimovian robot, in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay (1996) and subsequent Discworld novels

    • 2000s

  • Cassandra Kresnov, in a series by Joel Shepherd (2001)
  • Moravecs, sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium (2003)
  • Nimue Alban/Merlin Athrawes, in the Safehold series by David Weber (2007)
  • Otis, the robot dog from Tanith Lee's Indigara (2007)
  • Freya, in Charles Stross' Saturn's Children (2008)
  • HCR-328 and Tom in Automatic Lover and Automatic Lover – Ten Years On by Ariadne Tampion (2008)
  • Boilerplate, a Victorian-era robot in the illustrated coffee-table book Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, published by Abrams (2009)

    • Radio

  • Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio series (1978–1980)
  • Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch BBC radio series (1980–1981)
  • Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the BBC radio series Nineteen Ninety-Four (1985)

    • Music

  • Mr. Roboto, the prison robot in the eponymous song from the rock opera Kilroy Was Here by Styx (1983)
  • Rapbot, a robot built for rapping, but with various other functions, including a toaster, from Fake Songs by Liam Lynch (2003)
  • Cindi Mayweather, the protagonist from the "Metropolis" concept series by Janelle Monáe (2007)
  • Cyborg Noodle, the cyborg clone of Noodle from the virtual band Gorillaz who was created for the storyline of their album Plastic Beach (2010)

    • 1940s and earlier

  • The Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in A Clever Dummy, a Sennett silent short dating from 1917 when the term "robot" did not yet exist
  • The Mechanical Man from the Italian silent film of the same name, directed by André Deed (1921)
  • Maria/Futura, the Maschinenmensch, a robotic gynoid, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic-appearing and human-appearing forms in Metropolis, the silent science fiction film by famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang (1927)
  • Arbeitsmaschine and Kampfmaschine, working robots and fighting robots in the German movie Der Herr der Welt (1934) by Harry Piel; the mad scientist Professor Wolf (Walter Franck) is eventually killed by his fighting robot
  • The Tin Man, voiced by Billy Bletcher ("My name is robot!") from the Roach comedy short of the same name featuring Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly (1935)
  • Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film series (1936)
  • Steel "Killer" Robot in director William Witney's early 1940s film serial of 15 episodes Mysterious Doctor Satan (a.k.a. Doctor Satan's Robot) (1940, re-released in full-length 1966)
  • The Mechanical Monsters in the Superman short of the same name (1941)

    • 1950s

  • Gort, the robot in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (loosely based on Gnut, the robot protagonist of "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, the original short story upon which the movie is based)
  • Mark 1 in Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
  • Ro-Man, a robot bent on destroying earth, in the movie Robot Monster (1952)
  • Nyah's robot, Chani, in the British film Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
  • Tobor, a robot created to replace astronauts in space in the film Tobor the Great (1954)
  • Venusian robots invading Earth in Target Earth (1954)
  • Robby (Robby the Robot) in Forbidden Planet (1956) and The Invisible Boy (1957) (the character is intended to be the same in both films)
  • Kronos (1957)
  • Moguera, a large, mole-like robot in The Mysterians (1957) and several subsequent Japanese films
  • Colossus in The Colossus of New York (1958)
  • The Human Robot in The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy (1958)

    • 1960s

  • Omega in First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
  • Neptune Men, robotic aliens in Invasion of the Neptune Men, starring a young Sonny Chiba (1961)
  • The Humanoids (or "Clickers") in The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
  • Robot John in Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968), both re-edited versions of the Russian film Planeta Bur (1962)
  • Talos in Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
  • Alien robots invade Earth in The Earth Dies Screaming. (1964)
  • Torg in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
  • Frank Saunders (a.k.a. "Frankenstein"), an android version of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
  • Sexbots or Fembots, including Robot # 11 (Diane) in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966), both starring Vincent Price
  • Cyborg Garth A7 in Cyborg 2087 (1966)
  • Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967)
  • Robot Operator in The Terrornauts (1967)
  • Robot army in Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968)

    • 1970s

  • The American defense computer Colossus that takes over the world in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
  • The all-robot police force in THX 1138 (1971)
  • Huey, Dewey, and Louie, drones in Silent Running (1972) – notable as the first movie in which non-humanoid robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees
  • The robots in Sleeper (1973)
  • Jet Jaguar in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
  • The Gunslinger (played by Yul Brynner) and other androids in Westworld (1973) and Futureworld (1976)
  • Mechagodzilla in various Godzilla films (1974)
  • The Stepford Wives (1975) – Joanna Eberhart and other women are being replaced with identical robots.
  • Box in Logan's Run (1976)
  • Necron-99, later called "Peace" from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977)
  • C-3PO, R2-D2 IG-88, 4LOM and others in Star Wars (1977) and subsequent films
  • Proteus IV from Demon Seed (1977), an AI computer developed by Alex Harris, that eventually rapes the scientist's wife to be immortal
  • Robot Overlord from the 1977 Italian film Cosmos: War of the Planets
  • Alien robot army threatens Earth in Starship Invasions. (1977)
  • Beba-2 in Message from Space (1978)
  • Aliens' robot army invades Earth in the Italian film War of the Robots. (1978)
  • Tilk, Tilly and others in the 1978 Italian film Star Odyssey
  • Elle and the Giant Robot in Starcrash (1979)
  • Sparks, Lomax and others from the 1979 Canadian film H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come
  • V.I.N.CENT (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), Maximillian and the androids made out of humans in The Black Hole (1979)
  • Ash in Alien (1979)
  • Ilia probe, a gynoid double of the original Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
  • Hermes, an android double of his creator, in Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
  • C.H.O.M.P.S. (Canine HOMe Protection System), a robotic dog invented by his young owner (1979)

    • 1980s

  • Galaxina (1980), with Dorothy Stratten in the title role
  • Hector in Saturn 3 (1980)
  • The robot who had sex with a secretary in Heavy Metal (1981)
  • Val, Aqua, Phil and others from Heartbeeps (1981)
  • Bubo, a mechanical owl in Clash of the Titans (1981)
  • The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael, and possibly Rick Deckard in Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
  • Max 404 and Cassandra One in Android (1982)
  • The Recognizers, police robots in Tron (1982)
  • Robot Spiders and various other robots, maliciously reprogrammed to kill in Runaway (1984)
  • T-800, the robot assassin in The Terminator (1984)
  • Beta, an android left on Earth impersonating Alex Rogan while he is in space in The Last Starfighter (1984)
  • D.A.R.Y.L. (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform) (1985)
  • Tik-Tok in Return to Oz (1985)
  • Sico, Paulie's robot in Rocky IV (1985)
  • Killbots in Chopping Mall (1986)
  • BB and Samantha in Deadly Friend (1986)
  • Bishop in Aliens (1986)
  • Jinx from the film SpaceCamp (1986)
  • Spot in Eliminators (1986)
  • R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator) and MAX (TriMAXion Drone Ship) in Flight of the Navigator (1986)
  • Johnny 5 and the other S-A-I-N-T (Strategic-Artificially-Intelligent-Nuclear-Transport) military robots in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988) and later Hot Cars, Cold Facts (1990)
  • Optimus Prime and many others in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
  • ED-209 in RoboCop (1987)
  • Cherry 2000 (1987)
  • The "fix-its" in *batteries not included (1987)
  • Ulysses, an android in the film Making Mr. Right (1987)
  • Dot Matrix in Spaceballs (1987)
  • Chip in the Not Quite Human movie adaptions based on the books by Seth McEvoy (1987)
  • Astor, an android played by Stacey Williams in Gangster World (1988)

    • 1990s

  • MARK13 in Hardware (1990)
  • The Enforcer Drone from the 1990 film Spaced Invaders
  • Johnny Cab from Total Recall (1990)
  • T-800 and T-1000, model Terminators played respectively by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  • The good and evil robotic doubles of Bill and Ted in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
  • Newman in And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991)
  • Eve from Eve of Destruction (1991)
  • Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cyborg from Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
  • Alsatia Zevo, the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and dollmaker in Toys (1992)
  • Bishop in Alien 3 (1992)
  • Otomo, android ninjas from RoboCop 3 (1993)
  • The Sterilisation Units in A.P.E.X. (1994)
  • J5 in Blankman (1994)
  • Wallace's Techno Trousers in Nick Park's animated short Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1994)
  • "SID 6.7", the villain in the film Virtuosity (1995) as a nanotech synthetic android, played by Russell Crowe
  • David, Becker and Jessica from Screamers (1995) based on the short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick
  • Project 2501 in the movie adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell – Japanese manga anime describes AI surveillance of the population (1995)
  • Evolver, villain from the 1995 film
  • Solo (1996), based on Robert Mason's 1989 novel Weapon
  • Call in Alien Resurrection (1997)
  • The seductive Fembot assassins in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and in the rest of the Austin Powers series – In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), it's revealed that the character Vanessa Kensington was a fembot, and in Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), Britney Spears plays herself as one.
  • Weebo in Flubber (1997)
  • "Robot" in Lost in Space (1998), a movie based on the TV series
  • R.O.T.O.R. (1987)
  • The Iron Giant (1999), a film version of the Ted Hughes children's novel The Iron Man
  • Andrew, played by Robin Williams and others, the robot servant in The Bicentennial Man (1999), based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
  • The Sentinels from The Matrix (1999)
  • Battle Droids from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace to Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
  • RoboGadget in Inspector Gadget (1999)
  • Bender Bending Rodríguez (Bending Unit 22) a.k.a. Bender from the Futurama TV series and direct to DVD movies

    • 2000s

  • AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion), the robot scout in the film Red Planet (2000) who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship
  • Tima, a female android robot in the anime film Metropolis (2001)
  • SIMON, from Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
  • Many robots, including David, the lead character, in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (ISBN 0-312-28061-0)
  • Kay-Em 14, female android in the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason X (2001)
  • Spyder robots, used by the PreCrime police force to locate and identify "perpetrators" in Minority Report (2002)
  • Bruno from The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
  • S1M0NE (derived from SIMulation ONE), title character played by Rachel Roberts and starring Al Pacino (2002)
  • Toy Santa from The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
  • Bio-Electronic Navigator a.k.a. B.E.N., an absent-minded robot from Disney's 2002 film Treasure Planet
  • B-4, Data's brother in Star Trek Nemesis (2002)
  • US 47 in the 2002 Kannada language film Hollywood
  • R4-P17 and the Droid Army in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-850 Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminatrix in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
  • G2 from Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)
  • The robot butler B166ER and the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One in the film shorts "The Second Renaissance Part I" and "The Second Renaissance Part II" from The Animatrix (2003)
  • The Sentinels from the Matrix series (1999–2003)
  • The "dolls", including Ria, in Natural City (2003)
  • R.A.L.P.H. in Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
  • Sonny (Type NS-5) and many others in I, Robot (2004)
  • Omnidroid, a series of intelligent and destructive robots developed by Syndrome to fight and kill "Supers" in The Incredibles (2004)
  • The monstrous robot dog in Rottweiler (2004)
  • The great spirit Mata Nui, god robot from the Bionicle franchise; and the Vahki, the robot police enforcers in Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui (2004)
  • The entire cast of Robots (2005)
  • Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
  • "EDI" (Extreme Deep Invader") from Stealth (2005)
  • Autobots and Decepticons in the 2007 film Transformers and its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
  • Transmorphers, title characters from the 2007 direct-to-DVD movie
  • Dor-15 and Carl in Meet the Robinsons (2007)
  • Iron Avengers from Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2007)
  • Giddy from Battle for Terra (2007)
  • RoboDoc (MD 63) from the 2008 National Lampoon film of the same name
  • WALL-E, EVE, M-O, AUTO, GO-4, SECUR-T, PR-T, BURN-E and SUPPLY-R from the 2008 film WALL-E and the 2008 short BURN-E
  • Gort, the robot in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  • "The Golden Army", robot horde from Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
  • The robot ninjas from Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2008)
  • Astro Boy and other robot characters from the 2009 film of the same name
  • Several characters in Terminator Salvation (2009) including Marcus Wright, the T-800, several T-600's, The Motor-Terminators and The Harvester
  • GERTY 3000 from the 2009 film Moon
  • B.R.A.I.N. (Binary Reactive Artificially Intelligent Neurocircuit) the malevolent fabricating robot and others from the animated film 9 (2009)
  • Robo from Super Capers (2009)

    • 2010s

  • Brainbots, Megamind's robotic jellyfish assistants in Megamind (2010)
  • Chitti, a humanoid robot played by Rajinikanth, built to obey the three laws of Asimov, turns evil in Enthiran (2010).
  • Candy Droober, Franklin Droober, Maureen Droober and Trace Mayter from the 2011 feature Android Re-Enactment
  • Atom , and Many characters from the movie Real Steel (2011)
  • Max, a robotic butler played by Lluís Homar, Gris, a free-thinking robotic cat, tiny robot horses and SI-9 in Eva (2011)
  • '80s Robot in The Muppets (2011)
  • David, the android played by Michael Fassbender in Prometheus (2012)
  • Tet, a tetrahedron in Earth's orbit that enslaved the human population, and cloned workers to maintain drones that keep humans from using the generators in Oblivion (2013)
  • MecWilly, in the pub scene in the Italian film Regalo a sorpresa (2013)
  • Micro Managers, Lord Business' henchmen in The Lego Movie (2014)
  • Sheriff Not-a-Robot, a robotic sheriff from the Old West who is one of Lord Business' henchmen in The Lego Movie (2014)
  • Baymax, an inflatable healthcare companion robot in Big Hero 6 (2014)
  • TARS and CASE, adaptable rectangle robots in Interstellar (2014)
  • Ultron, a robotic supervillain played by James Spader and Vision, an android superhero played by Paul Bettany in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
  • Ava, the android in Ex Machina (2015)
  • T-800, the robot protector in Terminator Genisys (2015)
  • CHAPPiE, the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself, from the movie of the same name (2015)
  • Rob-Monkey, Gorilla Grodd's minions from Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom (2015)
  • BB-8, an astromech droid in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
  • K-2SO, a Rebel-owned Imperial enforcer droid in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

    • 1960s and earlier

  • In The Thin Man (1957–1959):
  • Robby (Robby the Robot), a robot accused of murder in the episode "Robot Client" (1958)
  • In The Twilight Zone (1961–1962):
  • Alicia, a gynoid in the episode "The Lonely" (1959)
  • Jana, an android, played by Inger Stevens, who is unaware that she is a robot, in "The Lateness of the Hour" (1960)
  • The electrical grandmother in the episode "I Sing the Body Electric" (1962)
  • Allen, a robot who falls in love with a human girl in the episode "In His Image" (1962)
  • The Robot Simon (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Uncle Simon" (1963)
  • Mr Whipple's robot replacement (Robby the Robot) in the episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (1963)
  • Andromeda in A for Andromeda (1961)
  • In Supercar (1961–1962):
  • The Robot Servants of Professor Watkins in the episode "The Lost City" (1961)
  • Rosie the Maid, Max and UniBlab in The Jetsons (1962)
  • In Hazel (1961–1966):
  • A robot maid (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Rosie's Contract" (1962)
  • In Fireball XL5 (1962–1963):
  • Robert, the transparent auto-pilot robot invented by Professor Matic
  • The Granatoid Robots in the episode "The Granatoid Tanks" (1963)
  • The Robots of Robotvia in the episode "Trial By Robot" (1963)
  • Various unnamed robots in Space Patrol (1963–1964) (US title: Planet Patrol)
  • In The Outer Limits (1963–64):
  • Trent, an android from the far future in the episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964)
  • Adam Link, a robot accused of the murder of his creator in the episode "I, Robot" (1964)
  • In Doctor Who (Seasons One to Six) (1963–1969) (see also List of Doctor Who robots):
  • The Ice Soldiers in the serial The Keys of Marinus (1964)
  • The Mechonoids, robot enemies of the Daleks in the serial The Chase (1965)
  • A robot double of the Doctor created by the Daleks in the serial The Chase (1965)
  • The Chumblies in the serial Galaxy 4 (1965)
  • The War Machines in the serial The War Machines (1966)
  • The Yeti in the serials The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968)
  • The Servo Robot in the serial The Wheel in Space (1968)
  • The Quarks in the serial The Dominators (1968)
  • The White Robots and the Clockwork Soldiers in the serial The Mind Robber (1968)
  • In Thunderbirds (1965–1966):
  • Braman, a robot invented by Brains seen in the episodes "Sun Probe" (1965), "Edge of Impact" (1965) and "The Cham-Cham" (1966)
  • The plutonium store Security Robots in the episode "30 Minutes After Noon" (1965)
  • Astro Boy in the Japanese animated series (1963–1966)
  • Rhoda Miller (a.k.a. AF709) in My Living Doll (1964), a fembot played by Julie Newmar
  • In The Avengers (1965–1969):
  • The Cybernauts in the episodes "The Cybernauts" (1965) and "Return of the Cybernauts" (1967)
  • Tobor, the android in the Japanese anime series 8 Man (1965) and his older, stronger but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7
  • In Lost in Space (1965–1968):
  • Robot B-9 (a.k.a. The Robot)
  • The Robotoid (Robby the Robot) in the episode "War of the Robots" (1966)
  • Verda, a gynoid in the episodes "The Android Machine" (1966) and "Revolt of the Androids" (1967)
  • Raddion, a male android in the episode "The Dream Monster" (1966)
  • The IDAK Super Androids in the episode "Revolt of the Androids" (1967)
  • The Industro Mini Robots in the episode "The Mechanical Men" (1967)
  • The robot prison guard (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Condemned of Space" (1967)
  • The Xenian Androids in the episode "Kidnapped in Space" (1967)
  • The Female Robot and Mechanical Men in the episode "Deadliest of the Species" (1967)
  • The Junkman in the episode "Junkyard in Space" (1968)
  • In Ultra Seven (1967–68):
  • Windam, one of the three capsule monsters used by Ultraseven
  • King Joe in the episode "Ultra Garrison Goes West, Part 1"
  • Zero one, a human female looking android in the episode "Android Zero Directive"
  • In Get Smart (1965–1970):
  • Hymie the Robot, a robot originally created by KAOS an organization of evil, but turned to the side of good and niceness by CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart; first appeared in episode 19, "Back to the Old Drawing Board"
  • In Gilligan's Island:
  • The Government test robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Gilligan's Living Doll" (1966)
  • In The Addams Family (1964–1966):
  • Smiley the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Lurch's Little Helper" (1966)
  • In Star Trek (1966–1969):
  • Dr Roger Korby, Andrea, Dr Brown, Ruk and the Kirk android in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (1966)
  • Nomad, a sentient robot probe in the episode "The Changeling" (1967)
  • The Norman, Alice, Herman, Barbara, Maizie, Annabelle and Trudy series androids and the Stella Mudd androids in the episode "I, Mudd" (1967)
  • Rayna Kapec in the episode "Requiem for Methuselah" (1969)
  • The android replicas of Mr Atoz in the episode "All Our Yesterdays" (1969)
  • Serendipity Dog, a robot dog who asks questions on the BBC children's science series Tom Tom (1966–1969)
  • Robot "driver" of the race car Melange / X3 in the Speed Racer episodes "Revenge of Marengo (Part one)" and "(Part two)" / "Race for Revenge: Part 1" and "Part 2" (1967)
  • Giant Robo/Flying Robot and others in the series Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (1967–1968)
  • In Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967–1968):
  • The Mysteron construction robots in the episode "Crater 101" (1968)
  • Mildred the Maid (Robby the Robot) in The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968–1970)
  • In Joe 90 (1968–1969):
  • The Spider riot control robots in the episode "The Professional" (1969)
  • In Land of the Giants (1968–1970):
  • Professor Gorn's Super Giant Robot, a giant android, in the episode "The Mechanical Man" (1969)
  • Slim John, rebel robot in the BBC series (1969)

    • 1970s

  • Zed, the rebel robot in The Ed and Zed Show (c. 1970)
  • In Doctor Who (Seasons 7 to 17) (1970–1980):
  • The IMC Mining Robot in the serial Colony in Space (1971)
  • The Sontaran Knight Robot in the serial The Time Warrior (1973–1974)
  • The K1 Robot invented by Professor Kettlewell in the serial Robot (1974–1975)
  • The Sontaran Surveillance Robot in the serial The Sontaran Experiment (1975)
  • The Osirian Service Robots, mummy-like robot servants of Sutekh in the serial Pyramids of Mars (1975)
  • The Kraal Androids, including android duplicates of the Doctor, Harry Sullivan and RSM Benton, in the serial The Android Invasion (1975)
  • Dum, Voc and Supervoc robots in the serial The Robots of Death (1977)
  • K9, the Doctor's robot dog companion, created by Professor Marius and introduced in the serial The Invisible Enemy (1977)
  • The Seers of the Oracle in the serial Underworld (1978)
  • K9 MkII, the second version of the Doctor's robot dog companion, introduced in the serial The Ribos Operation (1978)
  • The Polyphase Avatron, the Captain's robot parrot in the serial The Pirate Planet (1978)
  • The Taran Androids, including an android duplicate of Romana, in the serial The Androids of Tara (1978)
  • The Movellans, android enemies of the Daleks, in the serial Destiny of the Daleks (1979)
  • Numerous android characters in the Japanese superhero series Kikaider (1972), including the title character
  • S.A.M. (Super Automated Machine) the "perfect machine" robot in Sesame Street (1969–present), introduced in episode 0406 (1972)
  • In Here Come the Double Deckers! (1971):
  • Robbie, a dancing robot invented by Brains in the episode "Robbie the Robot" (1971)
  • In Columbo (1971–1993):
  • MM7 (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Mind Over Mayhem" (1974)
  • In Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt, a German television series for children (1972):
  • Robbi a.k.a. ROB 344–66/IIIa, Co-Pilot of the Fliewatüüt and student of a third class at robot school (1972)
  • In Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972–1975):
  • "Mr. R.I.N.G." (Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia), a top secret military robot in the episode of the same name (1975)
  • In The Six Million Dollar Man (1973–1978):
  • A robot double of Major Fred Sloane in the episode "Day of the Robot" (1974)
  • A robot double of Oscar Goldman in the episode "Return of the Robot Maker" (1975)
  • Sasquatch, the robot watchdog of marooned aliens in the episodes "The Secret of Bigfoot – Part 1" (1976), "The Secret of Bigfoot – Part 2" (1976), "The Return of Bigfoot – Part 1" (1976) and "Bigfoot V" (1977)
  • The Fembots and a robot double of Oscar Goldman in the episode "Kill Oscar – Part II" (1976)
  • Death Probe, a Soviet Venusian robot probe in the episodes "Death Probe – Part 1" (1977), "Death Probe – Part 2" (1977), "Return of the Death Probe – Part 1" (1978) and "Return of the Death Probe – Part 2" (1978)
  • Questor in The Questor Tapes (1974)
  • In Space: 1999 (1975–1977):
  • The Servant of the Guardian in the episode "Guardian of Piri" (1975)
  • Gwent, a sentient spaceship in the episode "The Infernal Machine" (1976)
  • Zarl, Zamara and the other Vegan androids in the episode "One Moment of Humanity" (1976)
  • Brian the Brain in the episode "Brian the Brain" (1976)
  • A robot double of Maya in the episode "The Taybor" (1976)
  • The Cloud Creature in the episode "The Beta Cloud" (1976)
  • Fi and Fum, the time-travelling androids from the children's series The Lost Saucer (1975–1976)
  • In The New Avengers (1976–1977):
  • A Cybernaut in the episode "The Last of the Cybernauts...??" (1976)
  • In Ark II (1976):
  • Alfie the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "The Robot" (1976)
  • In The Bionic Woman (1976–1978):
  • Sasquatch, the robot watchdog of marooned aliens in the episode "The Return of Bigfoot – Part 2" (1976)
  • The Fembots in the episodes "Kill Oscar" (1976), "Kill Oscar – Part III" (1976), "Fembots in Las Vegas – Part 1" (1977) and "Fembots in Las Vegas – Part 2" (1977)
  • Yo-Yo, a.k.a. Geogory Yoyonovitch in Holmes & Yo-Yo (1976)
  • Officer Haven in Future Cop (1976–77)
  • In The Fantastic Journey (1977):
  • Cyrus, Rachel, Daniel, Michael and the other android members of Jonathan Willoway's community in the episode "Beyond the Mountain" (1977)
  • In Logan's Run (1977–78):
  • REM, a male android who joins Logan and Jessica in their search for Sanctuary
  • Draco, a male android, and Siri, a gynoid, in the pilot TV movie (1977)
  • Friend and Nanny, Lisa's robot companions in the episode "The Innocent" (1977)
  • Ariana, a gynoid, in the episode "Futurepast" (1978)
  • The Clinkers in Shields and Yarnell (1977–78)
  • Peepo, the robot in the children's series Space Academy (1977–1979)
  • In Space Sentinels (1977):
  • MO (Maintenance Operator), Sentinel One's maintenance robot
  • Haro in Mobile Suit Gundam (1977)
  • Voltes V of the Japanese animated series Chōdenji Machine Voltes V (1977)
  • P.O.P.S. (Robot B-9 modified) in Mystery Island (1977–78)
  • 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 in the animated series Battle of the Planets (1978)
  • In Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979):
  • The Cylons, mechanical men created by a race of reptile-like creatures
  • Muffit Two, a robot daggit who becomes Boxey's pet
  • Lucifer, an IL series Cylon, the robot assistant to Count Baltar introduced in "Saga of a Star World – Part III" (1978)
  • Specter, an I-L series Cylon, the garrison commander on Antilla in the episode "The Young Lords" (1978)
  • Hector and Vector in the episode "Greetings from Earth" (1979)
  • IQ-9 in Star Blazers (1978–1984), originally called "Analyzer" in Space Battleship Yamato (1974–1980)
  • H.E.R.B.I.E. (Humanoid Experimental Robot, B-type, Integrated Electronics) in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series
  • Blake's 7 (1978–81) featured several robots and androids.
  • In The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–1979):
  • Dr Solano's swordmaster robot in the pilot movie "The Return of Wonder Woman" (1977)
  • Orlick Hoffman's android duplicates of Dr Tobias, Dr Prescott, Dr Lazaar and Wonder Woman in the episode "The Deadly Toys" (1977)
  • Rover, the IADC's robot dog, Cori, William Havitol's robot secretary, and Havitol's evil duplicate of Rover in the episode "IRAC is Missing" (1978)
  • In Quark (1977–1978):
  • Andy the Robot, a cowardly robot built by Adam Quark from spare parts
  • In Mork & Mindy (1978–1982):
  • Chuck the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Dr Morkenstein" (1979)
  • In Salvage 1 (1979):
  • Mermadon, a junked government-constructed android in the episode "Mermadon" (1979)
  • In Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (First Season) (1979–1980):
  • Twiki, Buck's ambuquad robot who wears Dr. Theopolis, a brilliant talking computer, around his neck
  • Tina, a golden ambuquad that Twiki falls in love with in the episode "Cruise Ship to the Stars"
  • Humanoid robot security guards in the episode "Unchained Woman"
  • W1k1 (or Wiki), the pocket-sized robot in the children's series Jason of Star Command (1979–1981)
  • The TV movie Romie-0 and Julie-8 (1979) features two androids who fall in love.

    • 1980s

  • Robot 67 Bright 2, a robot who appears in two episodes of a week in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1983
  • Metal Mickey, the Wilberforces' household robot in Metal Mickey (1980–1983)
  • In Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (Second Season) (1981):
  • Twiki, Buck's ambuquad robot, and Crichton, a robot created by Dr Goodfellow
  • In Doctor Who (Seasons Eighteen to Twenty-Six) (1980–1989):
  • The Gundan War Robots in the serial Warriors' Gate (1981)
  • The Urbankan Androids in the serial Four to Doomsday (1982)
  • The Terileptil Android in the serial The Visitation (1982)
  • The Cybermen's Androids in the serial Earthshock (1982)
  • Kamelion, a shape-changing android introduced in the serial The King's Demons (1983)
  • K9 MkIII, Sarah Jane Smith's robot dog companion, in the episode The Five Doctors (1983)
  • The Raston Warrior Robot in the episode The Five Doctors (1983)
  • The Daleks' Androids, including android duplicates of the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough, in the serial Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
  • The Androzani Androids created by Sharaz Jek, including android duplicates of the Doctor and Peri in the serial The Caves of Androzani (1984)
  • The Karfelan Android in the serial Timelash (1985)
  • Drathro and the L1 robot in the serial The Trial of a Time Lord (1986)
  • Sillycone, the butler of the animated kids TV show The Bluffers (1986)
  • The Robotic Cleaners in the serial Paradise Towers (1987)
  • The Kandy Man, a robot made from sweets (candy) in the serial The Happiness Patrol (1988)
  • The Bus Conductor and the Robot Clowns in the serial The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988–1989)
  • In Knight Rider (1982–1985):
  • KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a talking Trans Am car
  • KARR ('Knight Automated Roving Robot), an early prototype of KITT in the episodes "Trust Doesn't Rust" (1982) and "K.I.T.T. vs K.A.R.R." (1984)
  • In Terrahawks (1983–1986):
  • Zelda, Yung-Star, Cy-Star and It-Star, evil androids from the planet Guk
  • Sergeant Major Zero, Space Sergeant 101, Dix-Huit and many other Zeroids, spherical battle robots
  • Dr Kiljoy, Zeroid robot doctor in the episodes "The Ugliest Monster of All" (1983), "Zero's Finest Hour" (1984) and "Operation Zero" (1986)
  • Roboz, the orange robot invented by Murray 'Boz' Bozinsky in Riptide (1984–1986)
  • The B.A.T.s (Battle Android Trooper) of the evil Cobra Organization in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series, first appeared in 1986
  • The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984–present)
  • Go-bots were featured in a cartoon series of the same name, around the same time as the Transformers series.
  • Voltron of Voltron: Defender of the Universe (1984–1986)
  • Roboto from Masters of the Universe (1984)
  • An enemy Bioroid pilot was described by a scientist in the Masters story (1985) of the Robotech science fiction series as a very advanced android with some sort of bio-electric device "as an artificial soul." Robotech adapted this story from Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Japanese animated series (1984), in which these pilots are humans with mechanical implants instead of androids with artificial souls.
  • The synthoids from several episodes of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series (1985)
  • V.I.C.I. (Voice Input Child Indenticant), the little girl robot in Small Wonder (1985)
  • Vanessa from Small Wonder
  • The Orbots—Tor, Bort, Bo, Boo, Crunch, & Oh-No from Mighty Orbots (1986)
  • Tobor, the Shadow-double of Mighty Orbots from the episode "Devil's Asteroid" (1986)
  • Robo Story, French cartoon with various robots in its main cast
  • Conky 2000, robot who gives out the secret word in Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986–1991)
  • T-Bob, a droid developed and owned by Scott Trakker, from the animated television series M.A.S.K., closely resembling R2-D2, and perhaps even a direct successor as an adapted Tx-series Industrial Automaton astromech droid, as implied by the show's storyline.
  • In Bionic Six (1987–1989)
  • F.L.U.F.F.I., the Bionic Six's pet/family-member gorilla-bot and Dr. Scarab's Cyphrons
  • Material for the Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987) and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2007) sequels described a character named Janice Em as a "sexy robot" with an "android body." JANICE is an acronym (according to the voice actress Chase Masterson in the video: The Face behind the Voice mini-documentary) which means: Junctioned Artificial Neuro-Integrated Cybernetic Entity.
  • There were many robots featured in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including the Foot Soldier ninjas, Metalhead the robotic turtle, MACC the cowboy robot from the future, the Turtle Terminator, REX-1 the robot cop, Chrome Dome, the Pretendicon, and more.
  • Data, Lore, Lal (Data's daughter) and Juliana Tainer in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994, plus four movies)
  • Steed, a robotic horse ridden by Saber Rider in the animated series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs (1987–1988)
  • Chip Carson from the Not Quite Human series (1987, 1989, 1992)
  • Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy and Cambot, created by and friends to Joel Hodgson and later Mike Nelson from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
  • Kryten, The Skutters, the Simulants and many others from the series Red Dwarf (1988)
  • Blitz, a robotic dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S. (1988–1989)
  • Roberta from Not Quite Human II (1989)
  • No-No from the animated children's series Ulysses 31
  • Blinky from the animated children's series Bucky O'Hare
  • ASTAR, a golden robot promoting safe play to children
  • Robin, a small robot made by the clown Bassie in the children's series Bassie en Adriaan
  • Yulgis from Dirty Pair: Affair on Nolandia
  • Kevin, a robot created by Screech Powers on Saved by the Bell (1989–1993)

    • 1990s

  • Autonomous telepathic tentacles, Dr. Octopus' robot from Spider-Man: The Animated Series
  • D.E.C.K.S., a talking robot with a VHS tape for a head, from the 1991 Disney Channel series Jump, Rattle, and Roll, formerly Wake, Rattle, and Roll (1990)
  • Sgt. Eve Edison, robot police officer in Mann & Machine (1992)
  • The Exocomps, small sentient artificial lifeforms that can perform a variety of tasks from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Quality of Life"
  • Alpha and Omega from the TV series The Flash (1990–1991) – Alpha is a government constructed female android (gynoid) assassin that develops a conscience, determines that killing is wrong, and wishes to be free from government control. Omega is a government-built android assassin reprogrammed to find Alpha.
  • Fire bots from Mega Man
  • Giant Robo and others from Giant Robo: The Animation (1992–1998)
  • The Bots Master, a syndicated animated series about a young inventor named Ziv "ZZ" Zulander with robot friends and inventions, such as the B.O.Y.Z.Z. (Brain Operated Young Zygoetopic Zoids). Along with his younger sister, they fight the Robotic Megafact Corporation and its line of 3A robots. (1993)
  • Ringer from the episode "The Replacements" of the Space Rangers TV series, a prototype android being tested as a Ranger replacement (1993)
  • Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1996) to Power Rangers Turbo
  • Handi-Driod from In Living Color
  • Megazord, a giant robot from Power Rangers franchise (1993–present)
  • Machine Empire from Power Rangers Zeo to Power Rangers in Space
  • Battle Borgs from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1995)
  • Alpha 6 from Power Rangers Turbo to Power Rangers Lost Galaxy and Power Rangers Operation Overdrive
  • The many Evangelions, or EVAs, from the Neon Genesis Evangelion series
  • THELMA (Techno Human EmuLating MAchine) from Space Cases (1996)
  • 790, the sarcastic and perverse bodyless robot head of Lexx
  • Blue Senturion, robotic Intergalactic Police Officer from Power Rangers Turbo to Power Rangers in Space
  • A number of robots appear in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, including:
  • Moloch, a dæmon trapped in a robotic body, from "I, Robot... You, Jane" (S1E8, 28 April 1997)
  • Ted Buchanon, a robot, made in the 1950s by a sickly inventor also named Ted Buchanan, who marries women resembling the wife of his maker, from "Ted" (S2E11, 8 December 1997)
  • April, a sexbot made by and for Warren Mears in "I Was Made to Love You" (S5E15, 20 February 2001)
  • Buffybot, a sexbot made by Warren Mears for Spike, appears in various episodes, including
  • "Intervention" (S5E18, 24 April 2001)
  • "The Gift" (S5E22, 22 May 2001)
  • "Bargaining" parts one and two (S6E1&2, 2 October 2001)
  • Warrenbot, a robotic duplicate that Warren Mears made of himself, from "Villains" (S6E22, 14 May 2002)
  • Bender the robot, as well as Flexo, Robot Santa, Kwanzaa-Bot, Calculon, Robot Devil, Clamps and other assorted robots including the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity robots in the animated series Futurama (1999)
  • Melfina from Outlaw Star
  • Noo-Noo from Teletubbies
  • Psycho Rangers from Power Rangers
  • Quantrons from Power Rangers in Space
  • The marionettes from the anime series Saber Marionette R (1995), Saber Marionette J (1997), Saber Marionette J Again (1998), and Saber Marionette J to X (1999)
  • Robotic Richard Simmons from The Simpsons
  • Rusty, the boy robot of the animated series The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot
  • Andromon and Guardromon in the Digimon anime series
  • Satan's Robot, a meta-fictional robot in The Adventures of Captain Proton, a holodeck program from Star Trek: Voyager
  • Coconuts and Scratch and Grounder from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Slo-Mo from Space Precinct
  • Steel/Iron Clan, Coyote, Coldfire/Coldstone from Gargoyles
  • SWATbots from Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Underground
  • Zords, giant fighting machines from all seasons of Power Rangers series
  • Ian Favre, CPB officer in Total Recall 2070
  • Multi (HMX-12), and Serio (HMX-13) are experimental humanoid maid robots from the anime To Heart.
  • Zero, the service robot in Earth 2
  • Beetleborg AVs (Attack Vehicles) and Gargantis the Attack Mobile Carrier in Big Bad Beetleborgs
  • Beetleborg BVs (Battle Vehicles), Roboborg and Boron in Beetleborgs Metallix
  • VR Troopertron in the second season of VR Troopers
  • Ken in The Tomorrow Man (1996), sent into the past to save its Inventor and prevent a missile disaster
  • Robocrook in the PBS game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
  • Paperboy 2000, the paper delivering robot vehicle from the sitcom series Get a Life
  • Azaka and Kamidake, robot Jurai Guardians who serve and protect Jurai Princess Ayeka, Yukinojo, the robot pilot for Mihoshi's space shuttle, and Zero, an android replicant of the space pirate Ryoko, are the most notable robots in the Tenchi Muyo! TV series.
  • Mac and Molly Mange, two criminals turned robot by Professor Hackle in the animated series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
  • Valerie 23 and Mary 25 from The Outer Limits
  • Spongetron, a robot double of SpongeBob SquarePants in the future

    • 2000s

  • C.H.E.E.S.E., a backronym for Computerized Humanoid Electronically Enhanced Secret Enforcer, is the main character of a fictional crime/adventure science-fiction television show which aired from Season 6 to Season 7 of Friends.
  • Destructo Bots from Legion of Super Heroes
  • Satan's Robot, usually in service for Dr. Chaotica but impressionable enough to sometimes work for good, in episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001) when the holodeck program "Captain Proton" is run
  • From South Park (1997–present):
  • Funnybot
  • Robot Bill Cosby
  • Mecha-Streisand
  • Kurumi and the rest of the steel angels from Steel Angel Kurumi (1999–2001)
  • From Family Guy (1999–present):
  • Daggermouth, a sophisticated talking fish robot designed and built by an old seaman with no engineering background
  • Robot Miley Cyrus
  • The Machine from Celebrity Deathmatch
  • Linguo from The Simpsons
  • Simon, a humanoid robot with the mind scanned from a dead little boy with AI technology, from the The Outer Limits episode "Simon Says" (2000)
  • Mr Dent, nanotech enforcer from Code Name: Eternity (2000)
  • SARA SARA from Toonami (2000–)
  • XR (eXperimental Ranger); XL, the proto-version of XR; NOS-4-A2; and Zurg's robots from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (2000–2001)
  • Back-Pack, Gears' main partner from the series Static Shock. It is a semi-independent, sophisticated AI robot that acts as a scouting robot, a computer, machine hacker, code breaker, alarm system, police scanner, tracer, weapons unit and restraining device. Back-Pack gets its name from what it resembles when it "heels", with the body being the bag and its legs the backpack straps. Back-Pack is rather significant because he can link up to Gear's thoughts, giving Gear technopathy. (2000–2004)
  • Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, Rabbot, Robositter and Sheila from Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000–2015)
  • Rommie, Gabriel/Balance of Judgement, Pax Magelanic, Doyle and various other warship AIs/avatars from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (2001–2005)
  • Frax and the Cyclobots from Power Rangers Time Force (2001)
  • GIR and the Robo-Parents from Invader Zim (2001)
  • Zeta from the TV show The Zeta Project (2001–2002)
  • Lawrence "Larry" 3000 from Time Squad (2001–2003)
  • Mahoro, the protagonist of Mahoromatic (2001–2003)
  • Ant Drones, Flying Termites, Beetle Drones and various other robots from the Samurai Jack series (2001–2004)
  • Alpha 7 from Power Rangers Wild Force (2002)
  • Chii, the Persocom in the Japanese anime series Chobits (2002)
  • Daigunder in the Japanese anime series (2002)
  • Robot Jones, Mom Unit and Dad Unit from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? (2002)
  • Thundercleese from The Brak Show (2001–2003)
  • J from the Japanese anime series Heat Guy J (2002–2003)
  • Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot pet dog in The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2002–2006)
  • From Kim Possible (2002–2007):
  • Oliver
  • Flamingo of Doom
  • Wadebot
  • Tornado, a robot horse
  • Destructo-Bots
  • Stockbots
  • "Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman and her sisters, also Melody, Kenny, Vega and various robotic villains from My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
  • R. Dorothy Wayneright in The Big O (2003)
  • Zeo Zagart from Beyblade (2003)
  • Jack Spicer's army of Jack-bots, including robots of himself and other people in Xiaolin Showdown (2003–2006)
  • From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003–2009):
  • Karaibots
  • TurtleBot
  • Nano
  • H.E.L.P.eR. (Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Rboot), G.U.A.R.D.O. and Huggy in The Venture Bros. (2003–present)
  • The Tachikoma spider tanks from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2004–2005)
  • C.A.R.R from Stroker and Hoop (2004–2005)
  • D.A.V.E. (Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator) from The Batman (2004–2008)
  • Cylons from Battlestar Galactica (2004)
  • Cylon Centurions (Model 0005)
  • Cylon Centurions
  • The Hybrids
  • The First Hybrid
  • Number One (John Cavil)
  • Number Two (Leoben Conoy)
  • Number Three (D'anna Biers)
  • Number Four (Simon)
  • Number Five (Aaron Doral)
  • Number Six
  • Number Seven (Daniel)
  • Number Eight (Sharon Valerii)
  • The Final Five:
  • Galen Tyrol
  • Tory Foster
  • Samuel T. Anders
  • Saul Tigh
  • Ellen Tigh
  • Rachael from Viewtiful Joe (2004–2005)
  • Megas and T-Bot from Megas XLR (2004–2005)
  • Jinmay from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (2004–2006)
  • Miyu Greer from the anime series My-HiME (2004–2005) and My-Otome (2005–2006)
  • X-5, B-1, & Robo-Betty from Atomic Betty (2004–2008)
  • The Replicators, seen in multiple seasons of Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007) and Stargate Atlantis (2004–2009)
  • Gunslinger from Trinity Blood (2005)
  • Krybots, R.I.C. 2.0 (Robotic Interactive Canine) and S.O.P.H.I.E. (Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encriptor) from Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005)
  • Anne Droid, Trin-E, Zu-Zana and Davinadroid from the Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf" (2005)
  • HMX-17a Ilfa, HMX-17b Milfa, and HMX-17c Shilfa are experimental maid robots from To Heart 2 (2005–2006).
  • Robotboy (2005–2008)
  • From Ben 10 (2005–2008):
  • The Mechadrones and Galvanic Mechomorphs
  • Slix Vigma
  • S.A.M, weather-controlling robot
  • From American Dad! (2005–present):
  • Robot Matthew McConaughey
  • Robot Johnny Depp
  • The construction drones and destruction drones, in Johnny Test (2005–2014)
  • Fallbot from Danger Rangers (2006)
  • The Loganator from Zoey 101 (2006)
  • Lucia von Bardas from Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes (2006–2007)
  • Constable Biggles from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward (2006–2007)
  • Brainiac 5 in Legion of Super Heroes (2006–2008)
  • Woodbot and Rockbot from The Emperor's New School (2006–2008)
  • Tama, Ms. Otose's android maid from the anime Gin Tama (2006–2010)
  • GR: Giant Robo (2007)
  • Mackenzie Hartford from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive (2007)
  • Serling and Viral from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward (2007)
  • From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (2007)
  • Gurren Lagann
  • Arc Gurren Lagann
  • Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
  • Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the largest mecha in anime measuring 52.8 billion light years tall according to the official guide book from GAINAX (仕事魂); after transforming into a drill its length is multiplied 10 times
  • Yui, Takaya's android maid from Koharu Biyori (2007–2008)
  • Tieria Erde, Ribbons Almark, Regene Regetta and the other Innovators from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007–2009)
  • Jailbot from Superjail! (2007–2014)
  • Norm, a squirrel-powered robot owned by Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb (2007–2015)
  • Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba! (2007–present)
  • The Interrodroids from The Middleman (2008)
  • Cameron from Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009)
  • Cyber Shredder from TMNT: Back to the Sewer (2008–2010)
  • Ship from Ben 10: Alien Force (2008–2010)
  • S.T.A.N in Aaron Stone (2009)
  • General Crunch, General Shifter, Tenaya 7 and Grinders from Power Rangers RPM (2009)
  • Stan from Aaron Stone (2009–2010)
  • Octus from Sym-Bionic Titan (2010–2011)
  • Robot Race Bannon from Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (2010)

    • 2010s

  • AIDA from Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Alpha-Red from Batman: the Brave and the Bold
  • Anti-fire Bot from Sonic Boom
  • April O'Neil Sex Bot 3000 from Robot Chicken
  • Argus from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
  • Ash from the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" (11 February 2013)
  • Assisdroid from Moonbeam City
  • Berserkers from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Black Lion from Voltron Force
  • Blip from Bolts and Blip
  • Blitz Botz from NFL Rush Zone: Season of the Guardians
  • Blue Lion from Voltron Force
  • BMO from Adventure Time (2010)
  • Bobert from The Amazing World of Gumball
  • Bolts from Bolts and Blip
  • Burn Bot from Sonic Boom
  • Buster from Sonic Boom
  • Buzzcams from Power Rangers Ninja Steel
  • Camera Bots from Iron Man: Armored Adventures
  • Chip from Man Seeking Woman
  • Clevetron from The Cleveland Show
  • CMO' from Adventure Time (2010)
  • Cosbytron 5000 from Saturday Night Live
  • Cybot from Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom
  • Decimator from Sonic Boom
  • Destructo-Bot from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Diamond Dogs from The Venture Bros.
  • The Disciplinarian from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Dorian, the MX-43s, and others in Almost Human (2013)
  • Doris from Aqua TV Show Show
  • Dropkick from NFL Rush Zone
  • Dudy from K.C. Undercover
  • Ethan Woods from Extant
  • Evil Lazer from Major Lazer
  • Evil Robot Axe Cop from Axe Cop
  • Fister Roboto from Archer
  • Footbot from Gravity Falls
  • Footbots from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Franz Nukid from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Freda from Aqua TV Show Show
  • Future Frond from Bob's Burgers
  • Gay Robot from Nick Swardson's Pretend Time
  • Green Lion from Voltron Force
  • Gregory from Kirby Buckets
  • Grinder from Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
  • Grindertron from Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
  • Guardians of the Status Quo from Teen Titans Go!
  • Hot Robor from Saturday Night Live
  • Hurt Bot from Teen Titans Go!
  • IDBot from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Interrobot from Moonbeam City
  • Irmabots from 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Isaacs from Black Dynamite
  • Isla and other Giftias from Plastic Memories. Giftias are androids that appear and behave nearly identical to humans, even with convincing emotions; however, they have a definite and short lifespan (less than ten years), causing problems for the humans who have established emotional entanglements with them.
  • Jack Hammer from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Jimmy the Robot of The Aquabats from The Aquabats! Super Show!
  • Judy from K.C. Undercover
  • K-Pop from Major Lazer
  • Kitty Ko of Sidekick
  • Kraken from Ultimate Spider-Man
  • Krieger Bots from Archer
  • Krackenstein from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Kudobots from Power Rangers Ninja Steel
  • Lance from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Laserbots from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Leaderbots from Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.
  • Lucas from Extant
  • Lucy from Extant
  • The Law from Major Lazer
  • Lyle from Family Guy
  • Mandroids from Iron Man: Armored Adventures
  • Marauder Bots from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Marcus Davenport from Lab Rats
  • Maxum Brain of Sidekick
  • Medbot from The Simpsons
  • Mega from Sonic Boom
  • Meka-Zorn from Son of Zorn
  • The Messenger from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Metal Alice from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Milton from Archer
  • Mindroid from Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
  • Molly X from Extant
  • NEPTR from Adventure Time
  • Nindroids from Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
  • Nod-Bot from The Simpsons
  • Otto from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Pain Bot from Teen Titans Go!
  • Party-bot from Golan the Insatiable
  • Perrybot from Lab Rats
  • Principal Howard from Mighty Med
  • Private Beats from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Psycho-Bot from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Radbot from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Redbot from Power Rangers Ninja Steel
  • Red Lion from Voltron Force
  • Richard from Extant
  • Rico from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Robbie from American Dad!
  • Roba from The Problem Solverz
  • Robeasts from Voltron Force
  • Robo-Apes from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Robo-Baby from Transformers: Rescue Bots
  • Robo-Frog from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Robo Hooligans from Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
  • Robo Knight from Power Rangers Megaforce (2013)
  • Robo-Lawyer from Jimmy Kimmel Live!
  • Robo-Penguins from Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered
  • Robo-Raptors from Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past
  • Robo-Sharks from Lego DC Comics: Batman Be-Leaguered
  • Robo-Spinosaurus from Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past
  • Robo-Usher 3000 from Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
  • Robot from the R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series episode "My Robot" (S3E23, 30 November 2013).
  • Robot Shooty Thing from Steven Universe
  • Rotox from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Rotox DX from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • Sadie from Bolts and Blip
  • Sasha from Jeff & Some Aliens
  • Scrapmaster from Transformers: Rescue Bots
  • Secretarabot 2500 from TripTank
  • Sex Robot from The Whitest Kids U' Know
  • Space Mice from Voltron Force
  • Stufferbot from Sonic Boom
  • TAALR from Extant
  • T-1, T-2, and T-3 from Lucas Bros. Moving Co.
  • Team Barefoot – the GGO footballers from the Chinese animation AI Football GGO (2010)
  • Ted-A from Family Guy
  • Ted-R from Family Guy
  • Thorax the Thunder Wasp from TripTank
  • Tigrr Jaxxon from Bolts and Blip
  • Totbot 3000 from Legends of Chamberlain Heights
  • Trex from Transformers: Rescue Bots
  • Troy West from Lab Rats: Bionic Island
  • Validate from Moonbeam City
  • VX3 Warbots from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Wafflebot from A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
  • Water Rotox from Power Rangers Megaforce
  • XBorgs from Power Rangers Super Megaforce
  • Yellow Lion from Voltron Force
  • Zane and P.I.X.A.L from Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
  • Various androids called "hosts" in the HBO series Westworld (2016–), based on the 1973 film of the same name

    • American

  • The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android in Fantastic Four and various other Marvel Comics; later featured in the She Hulk 2004 series under the name "Awesome Andy"
  • Biotron from Micronauts
  • Clickers from Top 10
  • Coheed (the Beast), Cambria (The Knowledge), Jesse (The Inferno), Mayo Deftinwolf, and a number of other IRO-Bot "children", who are genetically altered humans with superhuman powers and robotic qualities (i.e., can be taken apart and terminated), from the graphic novel series The Amory Wars written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. The characters and plotlines are also incorporated into the band's music.
  • Computo, created by Brainiac 5
  • Doctor Doom's Doombots in Fantastic Four (1961)
  • Dreadnoughts in Marvel Comics
  • Fugitoid in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • G.I. Robot, a construct used by the U.S. Marines in World War II, which appeared in Weird War Tales
  • Grag and Otho from the pulp magazines Captain Future and Startling Stories
  • The Human Torch in Marvel Comics (1939)
  • Jeremy Feeple and Professor Steamhead were replaced with badly constructed, unconvincing robot doubles (which eventually exploded) in an early issue of Ninja High School.
  • Lady Ada in Ghost Rider 2099
  • The Little Helper by Carl Barks, Gyro Gearloose's small robot assistant in Disney comics (1956)
  • The Living Brain from Spider-Man comics
  • Manmachine, from the Manmachine epic
  • Machine Man a.k.a. Aaron Stack from Marvel Comics
  • Machine Teen from Marvel Comics
  • The Manhunters in Green Lantern
  • Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a comic book and cartoon series (1961)
  • The Mek-ka Men, the female android Mimi and an android Mickey Mouse lookalike, all created by Pegleg Pete in the Disney comic strip "Mickey Mouse and the World of Tomorrow" by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh (1944)
  • The Metal Men (1962)
  • Microtron from Micronauts
  • Mousers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Nanotron from Micronauts
  • Octobots from The Amazing Spider-Man
  • The Red Tornado, Amazo, Tomorrow Woman and Hourman III in JLA (1968)
  • Robotman, Golden Age DC Comics superhero, the original "Robotman" in the DC universe (1942)
  • Robotman in DC Comics' Doom Patrol (1963)
  • Robotman from the series that would evolve and be renamed Monty by Jim Meddick (1985) – Robotman was eventually written out of the story entirely.
  • Doctor Ivo Robotnik from the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comic book
  • The robots in the comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter, including:
  • 1A, the oldest sentient robot, protector of mankind, who raised Magnus
  • H8, the robot police chief, who plots against mankind
  • Roboduck from the NEW-GEN comic book series
  • Scud: The Disposable Assassin from the comic series and accompanying games
  • The Sentinels in X-Men (1963)
  • Skeets, Booster Golds robot companion from Booster Gold
  • The Spider-Slayers from the Spider-Man comics
  • The Superman duplicates, Brainiac (pre-Crisis) and Kelex in Superman (1958)
  • Ultron, the Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema in The Avengers (1963)
  • Young Vision, a member of the Young Avengers, a rebooted new version of the Vision
  • Victor Mancha, an android created by Ultron in Marvel Comics
  • Transmetropolitan features AIs who abuse virtual hallucinogens
  • Android from Frank Miller's Hard Boiled
  • Ida from The Middle Man
  • C-Gram the android bartender from Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider 2099 series
  • L-Ron, from the DC Comics series Justice League International
  • Atomic Robo Tesla, eponymous hero of Atomic Robo published by Red 5 Comics

    • Australian

  • Mr. Pendulum from Ben Templesmith's Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse

    • British

  • The ABC Warriors from the comic 2000 AD, includes Hammerstein
  • Android Andy, a parody of Robot Archie in Captain Britain
  • Armoured Gideon from 2000 AD
  • Brassneck in The Dandy
  • Elektrobots in Reign of the Robots, a Dan Dare story from the Eagle comic (1957)
  • Mechanismo, a range of robo-Judges from Judge Dredd
  • Robo Machines
  • Robot Archie in the UK comic Valiant who has appeared in Zenith and Albion
  • Ro-Busters, a 2000 AD series
  • Walter the Wobot robotic servant to Judge Dredd also from 2000 AD

    • Franco-Belgian

  • Unnamed robot by Hergé from first adventure of Belgian series Jo, Zette et Jocko (1936)
  • Otomox, the self-proclaimed "Robot Master" by André Mavimus (writer) and Roger Roux (artist) (1943)
  • Radar le robot by André Franquin from Belgian series Spirou et Fantasio (1947)
  • Madame Adolphine by Peyo, an evil android in the guise of a harmless grandma, from the Belgian series Benoît Brisefer (1963)
  • La Schtroumpfette (Smurfette) by Peyo, a golem in the guise of a female smurf, from Belgian series Les Schtroumpfs (1966)
  • Exploding robots in the shape of guard dogs, in the episode "Pâtée explosive" from Belgian series Gil Jourdan by Maurice Tillieux (1969)
  • Cyanure by Tome and Janry, an evil sexy female android from Spirou et Fantasio (1983)
  • Robo-cops from Incal (by Moebius and Jodorowsky)

    • Other European

  • The domestico elettrodomestico, one of the more striking robots in Disney comics, looking like a clown, from the comic "Zio Paperone e il domestico elettrodomestico" by Guido Martina and Giuseppe Perego (1967)
  • Robbie, a recurring robot constructed by inventor Knox in German series Fix und Foxi, first drawn by Massimo Fecchi (1976)
  • Robots from the planet Des from the Polish series Bogowie z kosmosu (Gods from the Space), written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and illustrated by Bogusław Polch (1978)
  • RanXerox, a mechanical creature made from Xerox photocopier parts, by Italian artists Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore; first appeared in 1978, in Italian, in the magazine Cannibale
  • Uèr, an "electro-chemical" android capable of human feelings, in the Italian comic book Milady 3000 by Magnus (1980)
  • Link is an android in a team of human agents in the Italian comics series Agenzia Alfa, published by Sergio Bonelli (1997–present; Nathan Never and Legs Weaver are on the same team, although having series of their own). Link's name could be a tribute to Adam Link. His look has some similarity to Star Trek's Data in an alternate timeline, except for a silver strip of hair on top of his head.

    • South American

  • The Stellar Warriors from Karmatron by Oscar González Loyo (1986)
  • Tonto and Lothar from The Metabarons (1992–2003)

    • Manga (Japanese comics)

  • Giant Robo in the manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1967–1968)
  • Doraemon in the manga of the same name by Fujiko Fujio (1969)
  • Chihiro and Robita plus various other robots from Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix (1971)
  • Arale Norimaki, the main character of Dr. Slump; also Obotchaman (1980-1984)
  • Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe, in Kazuo Umezu's 1982 manga My Name is Shingo
  • Sergeant Metallic, Android 8, Android 16, Android 17, Android 18, and Android 19, all created by Dr. Gero (Android 20) from Dragon Ball (1984–1995)
  • Banpei and Sigel in Oh My Goddess! by Kōsuke Fujishima (1988–present)
  • Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell, a Japanese manga that describes an espionage AI that achieves sentience (1991)
  • Hotaru Tomoe / Sailor Saturn from Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi (1991-1997)
  • Alpha Hatsuseno, Kokone Takatsu, Maruko Maruko, Director Alpha Koumiishi (female robots) and Nai (a male robot) in the manga series Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano in Kodansha's monthly seinen magazine Afternoon (1994–2006)
  • Rin Asakura, Bathyscaphe and other robots, cyborgs and space vessels that look like humans in The World of Narue by Tomohiro Marukawa (1999–2012)
  • Chi and other Persocoms from the manga Chobits (2001–2002)
  • Chachamaru Karakuri, plus other robots in the manga Negima by Ken Akamatsu (2003–2012)
  • Tres Iques from Trinity Blood by Sunao Yoshida (2004–present)
  • Flandre, Flanders and Francesca from the anime Princess Resurrection (2005–2013)
  • Nano Shinonome and Biscuit #1 and #2 from Nichijou by Keiichi Arawi (2006–present)
  • Mira Yurizaki from Dimension W by Yūji Iwahara (2011–present)

    • Comic strips

  • Beetle Bot from the comic strip Beetle Bailey
  • Bossbot, a robot created by Dilbert
  • Kollege Blech from the comic strips of East German caricaturist Erich Schmitt (1965)
  • Robotman (1985) in the comic strip of the same name, which eventually became "Monty". Robotman left the strip and found happiness with his girlfriend Robota on another planet.
  • A heroic female robot called Mimi, an evil robot doppelganger of Mickey Mouse, and a robot army led by Peg-Leg Pete in the newspaper strip The World of Tomorrow (1944) by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh
  • Rubert, a robot created by Dilbert
  • The Vacunator from the comic strip Pooch Cafe

    • Web comics

  • Aradia-bot, Jade-bot, "Lil' Hal (AR)" and Bro-bot from Homestuck by Andrew Hussie
  • Anima: Age of the Robots (Anima) is an 18-chapter webcomic series depicting robots taking over the fictional planet of Anima, homeworld of talking animals.
  • "Clanks", various (steam powered?) robots in Phil Foglio's steampunk fantasy Girl Genius
  • Eve, a female android from Applegeeks, built using Apple Macintosh parts
  • Emotibot, a robot programmed to feel emotions, from Beaver and Steve
  • Evil Killer Death Spybot 5000 from Mark Shallow's Adventurers!, a robot originally designed to spy on the party, who eventually becomes a playable character
  • Ezekiel a.k.a. "Zeke", formerly known as the "X-bot", the anthropomorphised Xbox console from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del
  • Fruit Fucker, a semi-sentient kitchen appliance in the webcomic Penny Arcade that has sex with fruit and ejaculates the juice
  • Carl Swangee, a sentient android from the Penny Arcade 'Automata' storyline
  • J-LB8/Jalea Bates in Melonpool, started as a robot, later became a human
  • Kleptobot, a supposedly Soviet-made robot programmed to steal anything and everything, from Joe and Monkey
  • Medivac 911 ("Doc"), a steam-powered medical/janitorial droid from Polymer City Chronicles
  • The Ottobot, a robot duplicate of the character Francis Ray Ottoman featured in PvP
  • PC, ASCII and O in Funny Farm
  • Ping, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo
  • Pintsize, an AnthroPC from Questionable Content; also other AnthroPCs
  • Various characters from Diesel Sweeties, including Clango Cyclotron
  • Various characters from Saturnalia

    • Web-based media

  • Stella 4D, a.k.a. Manager 45, on GO Moonbase; first appears in episode 26

    • Animated shorts/series

  • Jewbot from SuperMansion

    • Flash

  • Rya Botkins and June Crane of Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage (though Crane's status is disputed, as she has claimed to be human)
  • The Robot, a contestant in the Strongest Man in the World Contest, from Homestar Runner.
  • The Visor Robot, a futuristic robot with a visor, from Homestar Runner
  • The Grape-Nuts Robot, created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner
  • Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's My God, Robots!

    • Web series

  • Penny Polendina, a sentient android from the Rooster Teeth web series RWBY

    • Machinima

  • Lopez, Church and Tex, characters from the Rooster Teeth machinima Red vs. Blue. Only Lopez is a true artificial life-form, as both Church and Tex exist only as ghosts ( later in the series though solid proof showed that they both are AI programs like O'Malley the whole time ). Both characters where blown up during the course of the series, existing from that point onward in robot bodies other than their originals. They possess mechanical bodies similar to Lopez in design.

    • Podcasts

  • Little Button Puss, character from Episode #310 of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast, played by John Gemberling. Little Button Puss, a.k.a. HPDP69-B, is a promotional robot built by Hewlett-Packard and is the first ever robot created with a fully sentient artificial intelligence, personality, and speaking function. It was designed by HP engineers for the express purpose of sexually pleasing humans. Comedy Bang! Bang! host Scott Aukerman was sent Little Button Puss as part of a promotional advertising campaign for the line of sex-robots. Little Button Puss looks like a metal dog, and has small flesh patches where its genitals are. Elsewhere, it's described as having the appearance of "nickel blue, gun metal". It is verified in the episode that Scott Aukerman lustily removed Little Button Puss's retractable genitals, threw them in a trash can, and then proceeded to use the HPDP69-B for its intended purpose. Afterwards, according to Comedy Bang! Bang! official canon, Aukerman looked back on the incident with shame. A complaint about the HPDP69-B is that, for a sex-robot, "it looks too much like a metal dog". In a brief look into its past, Little Button Puss recounts an old romantic relationship with its long lost love, United Flight 93, who "died in the September 11th attacks".

    • Computer and video games

  • Various robot from Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
  • Various robot fighter from Rise of the Robots and Rise 2: Resurrection
  • BT-7274 from Titanfall 2
  • CHEFBOT-9000 from Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
  • Omnics and omniums from Overwatch
  • DG a.k.a. Cash Cube a.k.a. ABak from PT Trading
  • Cubot from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Dallas 13, the cyborg from Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense
  • White Bomber of the Bomberman race from the Bomberman series
  • Cowboy Robot monster from 100 Rogues
  • Ashlotte, a clockwork girl brought to life and powered by magic in Soulcalibur IV
  • Eve, a playable character in Elsword. She is part of a lost robot race called Nasod, accompanied by Moby and Remy to assist her in fighting she is searching for an El Crystal to help her rebuild her race . She is known as the "Queen of the Nasods" and in one of her class changes she creates other robots named Oberon, Ophelia, and Ferdinand.
  • King Nasod, code name Adam one of the first Nasod built, a boss in Elsword
  • Various Nasod models - there are multiple types of Nasod, each specific to the job it was created for each given names ranging from Leviathan and Ignis to Nasod TYPE-N and Nasod TYPE-F; they act as basic mobs or bosses in game.
  • Zero, the robotic guide to Rose in Elsword in one of Rose's classes; helps Rose create more robots such as G-0 Battleroid , Mecha Volt MX , Sparrow units , Ex-C Viper , Gale Force , and The G-Core
  • Arthur from The Journeyman Project video game series
  • LUX TIZER, a Tetujin from The 7th Saga
  • B.O.B.
  • Many mining and defense robots in the Descent series of games
  • Mining robots and combots from Red Faction
  • Floyd, the lovable sidekick robot from the Infocom text adventure Planetfall
  • Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Foxy and Chica from the Five Nights at Freddy's series; also other animatronics
  • The distinct robots in the original Mega Man series, including the main character Mega Man and the Robot Masters
  • The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series
  • Mettaton from Undertale; actually a ghost residing inside a robotic body created by the royal scientist Alphys. He is a celebrity in the underground.
  • Kiibo from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
  • Snatchers from the cyberpunk visual novel adventure game Snatcher
  • Custom Robo
  • Evil robots from Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
  • Robot bosses from Contra III: The Alien Wars
  • Diana and Al King from Doraemon 4: In the Moon Kingdom (ドラえもん4 のび太と月の王国)
  • Assorted monsters from the Final Fantasy series, including the superboss Omega Weapon
  • The Badniks, the E-Series robots and Metallix; all developed by Dr. Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Captain Whisker from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Dr Ion and various other robots from God Hand
  • Emerl and Gemerl from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Metal Sonic from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Mecha Sonic from Sonic & Knuckles (1994)
  • Miss Bloody Rachel from Viewtiful Joe 2 and Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble
  • Orbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Silver Sonic from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)
  • EggRobo from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • The Reploids of the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series, and Mega Man ZX, robots with the ability to think, feel, and make their own decisions
  • Enemy robots from Robotron: 2084
  • Various robot enemies from Fantastic Four
  • Shamus
  • Cyber Sub-Zero, Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat series
  • The Drones and Mainframe from Gunman Chronicles
  • Robo from Chrono Trigger
  • The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in X-COM: UFO Defense
  • Alisa Bosconovitch, Combot, Jacks and NANCY-MI847J from the Tekken series
  • Gadget and Gadget Z from Suikoden II and Suikoden III respectively
  • Cait Sith, a fortune-telling robotic cat controlled via remote by a man named Reeve Teusti, from Final Fantasy VII. By extension, Cait Sith rides atop a giant, robotic moogle to which Cait Sith relays commands through a megaphone.
  • ROB 64 from the Star Fox series, starting with Star Fox 64
  • Emeralda, a colony of nanomachines from Xenogears
  • The Servbots from Mega Man Legends
  • Hengar from Monster Rancher
  • Terror Drone from Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
  • HMX-12 Multi and HMX-13 Serio, the popular robot maids from To Heart, as well as their successor, HMX-17a Ilfa from To Heart 2
  • The Robo-Kys from the Guilty Gear series
  • Ershin from Breath of Fire IV
  • The "Machina" from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
  • Cortana, 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent, from the Halo series
  • Clank, Doctor Nefarious, and countless others in the Ratchet & Clank series
  • KOS-MOS, MOMO and the Realians from the Xenosaga trilogy
  • The Ninja Warriors, a SNES game starring robot ninjas
  • Robocalypse, Nintendo DS game
  • Robots from System Shock
  • Robot enemies from Viewtiful Joe
  • Monita from Nintendo Land
  • Thursday, sidekick of Captain Gordon the 37th Defender of Earth (and later itself the 38th Defender of Earth) from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
  • Turtlebot from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • HK-47 from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, part of the Star Wars expanded universe
  • Kurt Zisa, a secret Heartless boss in the American and Final Mix versions of Kingdom Hearts
  • The entire Core army in Total Annihilation and its remakes
  • The robots in Zero-K
  • Numerous robot enemies from SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
  • Geary, a cleanliness-obsessed and evil robot from Crash Nitro Kart
  • The Ridepod, a customizable industrial revolution-style robot that Max can ride in the dungeons in the RPG Dark Cloud 2
  • Dog from Half-Life 2
  • Robot enemies from Journey to Silius (Raf World)
  • Chibi-Robo, a tiny robot housekeeper that is the main playable character in the game of same name
  • Mike, a "karaoke robot" from WarioWare: Touched!; its creator, Dr. Crygor used him as a janitor
  • Rocket in Rocket: Robot on Wheels
  • Browny from Contra: Hard Corps
  • The Robot boss from Contra: Hard Corps
  • Robot enemies from The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction
  • Various robot enemies from Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
  • The Copyroid, a robot that allows a Net-Navi to be projected into the real world and interact with it in Mega Man Battle Network 6
  • Yumemi Hoshino, a main character in the visual novel Planetarian: The Reverie of a Little Planet
  • Medabots
  • Many enemies and bosses from Smash TV
  • CD-288 from Contra: Legacy of War
  • Oscar, an automaton railwayman from Syberia and Syberia II
  • Probotector, PAL version of Contra with the human characters replaced with robots
  • Quote and Curly Brace, the "soldiers from the surface" in Doukutsu Monogatari
  • Several Protoss units from StarCraft are robotic.
  • Most GUN units from Sonic the Hedgehog are robots.
  • LapTrap from The Learning Company's The ClueFinders series
  • R-110 from TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
  • Robot Ninja Haggle Man from Retro Game Challenge
  • Virtual Woman, who can be programmed with a new personality, appearance, and history
  • Sasuke, a clockwork robot ninja in the Ganbare Goemon series
  • Goemon Impact, a very big clockwork robot in Ganbare Goemon, modelled after Goemon himself
  • Miss Impact, a female counterpart to Goemon Impact that is modelled after Omitsu
  • T-elos(Telos), Ziggy, the E.S. units and the Zarathustra system in Xenosaga
  • The various classes of Forerunner Sentinels from Halo
  • The Jack of All Trades (or Jack) robot from Gears of War
  • Big Robot Bill of the computer game The Neverhood
  • The W-Numbers of Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2
  • T.O.B.O.R. and Makoto/Proto-Makoto, robots created by Dr. F. on MySims and MySims Kingdom
  • The Fillibots from Rhythm Heaven
  • GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System), the humorously psychotic scientific computer in the Valve game Portal
  • Wheatley from Portal 2
  • Frobot from the eponymous Wii game
  • Josef from the Machinarium computer game
  • DeskBot, BellBot, DoorBot, LiftBot, BarBot and the Maître d' are crucial characters in Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic
  • RFS-81, a Savant fighter droid that will join the player after being repaired in Wizardry 8
  • Aigis and Metis from Persona 3; also Labrys from Persona 4 Arena
  • In Star Ocean: The Second Story, the main antagonists, who call themselves the Ten Wise Men, were androids made more than 4 billion years ago to suppress rebel forces opposing an ancient empire. They were then reprogrammed to destroy the universe after the death of their creator's daughter.
  • Harkness or A3-21, an android designed to hunt down other rogue androids, before finally going rogue himself in the 2008 role-playing game Fallout 3. The character is a reference to the 1982 film Blade Runner.
  • Mr. Handy, utility robots from the Fallout series
  • Curie, a Miss Nanny robot from Fallout 4 modified to conduct scientific experiments in secret in Vault-tech's Vault 81
  • Atlas and P-Body, the android player-characters in the co-op mode in Portal 2
  • CL4P-TP also referred to as "ClapTrap from the Borderlands series
  • D-Tritus and various others from Scrapland
  • Various from Z
  • EDI (an artificial intelligence operating an android formerly named Dr. Eva), Harbinger, Sovereign, the Reapers, and the Geth, including Legion, from the Mass Effect series
  • Clanker in The Learning Company's Star Flyer series
  • The robotic CAST race from the Phantasy Star series
  • The Simbot from The Sims 3: Ambitions
  • The Sackbots from LittleBigPlanet 2 and LittleBigPlanet Karting
  • Working Joes and Industrial Joes from Alien Isolation
  • Ghost, artificially intelligent companion of guardians in the video game Destiny
  • Skell, the giant robot mechs from the video game Xenoblade Chronicles X used as tools and weapons
  • Mimeozone, human-like robots from Xenoblade Chronicles X; simulate humans while all the humans are in stasis

    • References

    List of fictional robots and androids Wikipedia
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