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.

"Maria" from the 1927 movie Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany.

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
For robots produced for entertainment in the eighteenth century, see Automaton § Modern automata.
  • 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.[1] 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.

Literature
See also: Robots in literature

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 mecha-like tripods that the Martians use to conquer the Earth in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1897)
  • "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.[2]

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 16 Aug. 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.
  • Metropolis (1927), by Thea von Harbou as novel, by Fritz Lang as film, character Maria and her robot double.
  • 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

1950s and 1960s
  • Astro Boy, series by Osamu Tezuka (published 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)
  • Diktor, the robotic lover in the comics and film Barbarella (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
  • Richard Daniel, an intensely loyal old, unremodeled robot, belonging to one family for generations, in "All the Traps of Earth" by Clifford Simak. When the last of his entire long family of owners died, after 200 years, he is required by law to be disassembled; humans who made the law are still threatened by robots who are superior to them in functionality. He is sentient enough to take exception to that policy.
  • Jenkins, the robot who served generations of the Webster family for nearly a thousand years, then the dogs modified by one of the Websters, dogs capable of reading and speech, who inherited the earth when humans left it by various methods, through all of the stories contained in the collection "City" by Clifford Simak. Humans entered "the sleep", or had their bodies converted to Jovian lifeforms to live on Jupiter.

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s
  • Cassandra Kresnov, in a series by Joel Shepherd (2001)
  • Clunk, in a series by Simon Haynes (2004)
  • 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)
  • The Calculators, an ancient, ongoing family of androids in Paul Levinson's Robinson Calculator novelette (2019)

Radio

Music

Film

1940s and earlier
Italian film The Mechanical Man (1921), a movie which shows a battle between robots.

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

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
  • 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)
  • Bio-Electronic Navigator a.k.a. B.E.N., an absent-minded robot from Disney's 2002 film Treasure Planet
  • B-4, Data's and Lore's older 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 robot from Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
  • The "dolls", including Ria, in Natural City (2003)
  • R.A.L.P.H. in Spy Kids 2: The 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)
  • 'Billybot and Mandroid from the 2007 Cartoon Network original movie, Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure.
  • 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, SUPPLY-R, WALL-A and all other robot characters 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

Television films and series

1960s and earlier
  • Mechano, the robotic cat programmed to kill or banish mice from houses, from the 1952 episode, "Push-Button Kitty" of Tom and Jerry.
  • Adventures of Superman (1952–1958), "The Runaway Robot" episode (1953).
  • 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):
  • 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):
  • 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):
  • 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
  • Gigantor (1964), Japanese animated TV series about giant titular robot.
  • In The Avengers (1965–1969):
    • The Cybernauts in the episodes "The Cybernauts" (1965) and "Return of the Cybernauts" (1967)
    • Robot duplicates in the episode "Never, Never Say Die" (1967)
  • Tobor, the android in the Japanese anime series 8 Man (1965) and his older, stronger but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7
  • The Deep Space Probe in "The Indestructible Man" (1965) episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–1968)
  • Giant Toy Robot in "The Fun-Fun Killer" (1966) episode of Honey West (1965–1966)
  • In Lost in Space (1965–1968):
    • Robot B-9 (a.k.a. The Robot), Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot assigned to the space craft Jupiter 2
    • 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 in the episode "Gilligan's Living Doll" (1966)
  • In Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles
    • Frankenstein, Jr
  • 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
  • Robot dog Dynomutt in animated series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
  • 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 with encyclopaedic knowledge and vast computer intelligence, 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):
  • 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):
  • 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):
  • 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):
  • 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
  • Armstrong, a robot in DuckTales (1987)
  • 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)
  • Driller, in the series ThunderCats (1985)
  • Berbils, robot bears of the animated kids TV show ThunderCats (1985-1987)
  • Sillycone, the butler of the animated kids TV show The Bluffers (1986)
  • 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)
  • The Orbots—Tor, Bort, Bo, Boo, Crunch, & Oh-No from Mighty Orbots (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 10-year-old android built by Ted Lawson on Small Wonder (1985)
    • Vanessa from Small Wonder
  • Buzzwang, an android customised as a galaxy ranger on The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (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.
  • Lil Bulb, robot with a light bulb for head, created by Gyro Gearloose on DuckTales (1987-1989)
  • 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

2000s

Animal mechanicals(2007)

2010s

Comics

Comic books/graphic novels

American

Australian

British

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)[4]
  • 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

Manga (Japanese comics)

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
  • Tickle-Bot 3000 from the comic strip Thatababy
  • The Vacunator from the comic strip Pooch Cafe
  • Robot Cartoons Cartoon catalog featuring the work of Dan Rosandich

Web comics
  • 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,[5] 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 Homestuck by Andrew Hussie
  • Various characters from Diesel Sweeties, including Clango Cyclotron

Web-based media
  • Stella 4D, a.k.a. Manager 45, on GO Moonbase;[6] first appears in episode 26

Animated shorts/series
  • Jewbot/Robobot from SuperMansion
  • Deathbots 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.[7]
  • The Visor Robot, a futuristic robot with a visor, from Homestar Runner[8]
  • The Grape-Nuts Robot, created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner[9]
  • Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's[10] My God, Robots!

Web series
  • Penny Polendina, a sentient android from the Rooster Teeth web series RWBY
  • Bot Best Friend, a commercially sold robot with five different "friendship modes" from the Smosh video Awesome New Robot!
  • Tari, a gamer android who plays videogames and loves rubber ducks too, she is from Meta Runner

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".[11]
  • The Co-Host 3000 (later Sidekick 3000), character from the Spill and Double Toasted podcasts, voiced by Tony Guerrero.
  • NO-3113 (Pronounced "Noelle"), a "hug-sized" robot in the Dungeons & Dragons podcast The Adventure Zone, created by Clinton, Justin, Travis, and Griffin McElroy. She is a robot created by the scientist Lucas Miller. She is described as looking pieced together from assorted parts with the sequence "NO-3113" written on her side. She floats above the ground and is able to administer healing shots. Later, she upgrades her body into a gorilla-like robot with four arms. It is later revealed that she is a ghost inhabiting the body of robot and was Lucas' first trial in retrieving a human soul from the Astral Plane and putting it inside a fusebox. Her original identity was Noelle Redcheek - a red-haired halfling girl part of a cider-brewing family business.

Computer and video games

See also

Notes
  1. Long, Tony (25 January 2011). "Jan. 25, 1921: Robots First Czech In". Wired.com. Archived from the original on 18 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. Hitchcock, Susan Tyler (2007). Frankenstein: A Cultural History. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-393-06144-4.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 May 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Otomox Archived 14 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine at http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2005.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  6. GO Moonbase
  7. The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest! Archived 23 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine at http://www.homestarrunner.com Archived 26 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Homestarloween Party Archived 25 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine at http://www.homestarrunner.com Archived 26 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Compy 386! Archived 20 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine at http://www.homestarrunner.com Archived 26 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Andrew Kauervane". Archived from the original on 25 February 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  11. "Little Button Puss, episode #310 of Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast on Earwolf". Archived from the original on 16 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 April 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2017.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. "Virtual Woman by CyberPunk Software". virtualwoman.net. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
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