Mechanoid (disambiguation)

Not to be confused with Mechonoid, a race of fictional robots from the television series Doctor Who

Mechanoid may refer to:

• Android (robot), a robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human
• an alternate name for the Mechonoids, used in the credits of the 1965 Doctor Who episode "The Planet of Decision" (the final episode of the Season 2 serial The Chase)
• the villainous namesakes of the 1981 RPG The Mechanoid Invasion.
  • and also the 1990-1991 comics "The Mechanoids" related to it
• one of two factions on planet Targ in the 1985 video game Mercenary
• a monster of the week from 1995 episode "The Old Switcheroo" of VR Troopers
• the Mechanoid Army was a line of action figures released by Todd McFarlane for Spawn (series 35: Robot Wars) in 2008
• autonomous, metallic, hostile, complex AI-driven creatures that appear frequently in the 2018 video game RimWorld.