List of fictional robots and androids
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This list of fictional robots and androids is a chronological list, categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema. It 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.
See also the List of fictional computers for all fictional computers depicted as static machines.
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[edit] Theatre
- See also mechanical automata produced for entertainment in the eighteenth century.
- 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 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New York 1922; English edition published 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms [1]. Named robots in the play are: Marius; Sulla; Radius; Primus and Helena.
[edit] Literature
- See also Robots in literature
[edit] 19th century and earlier
- Maidens made of gold, Bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer (circa 800 BC)
- The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
- The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, mentioned in the Talmud. (16th century)
- Olimpia in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
- A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
- A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
- The Brazen Android, by William Douglas O'Connor. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1891.
[edit] Early 1900s
- Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books (1900-)
- A robot chess-player in "Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce (1909)
[edit] 1930s
- The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. 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
- The Martian robot in The Lost Machine by John Wyndham (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)
[edit] 1940s (and Isaac Asimov specifically)
- Gnut, in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940) - (Later made into the classic 1954 SF film The Day the Earth Stood Still)
- 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 and subsequent novels
- Andrew Martin, from The Bicentennial Man (1976) (later made into a film) and The Positronic Man (a novel) with Robert Silverberg
- Norby, in a series of books for children co-written with Janet Asimov
- The Humanoids, from two novels by Jack Williamson,(1949 and 1980)
[edit] 1950s and 60s
- Zane Gort, a robot novelist, in the short story The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber, (1959)
- Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a comic book series. (1961)
- The Iron Man, in the book by Ted Hughes (1968)
- 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 (1968) by Philip K. Dick
- The Electric Grandmother in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury,(1969)
- Doraemon in a manga by Fujiko Fujio (1969)
[edit] 1970s
- Personoids - Personoids do not need any human-like physical body; they are rather an abstraction of functions of human mind, they live in computers - in Stanisław Lem's book " Próżnia Doskonała" (1971). It is a collection of book reviews of nonexistent books. Translated into English by Michael Kandel as A Perfect Vacuum (1983).
- The masculinist plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas -- The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin
- HARLIE in When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One by David Gerrold (1972)
- Setaur, Aniel, and Terminus in Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanisław Lem (1973)
- Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978–1981) (originally a radio series, then a book trilogy and a TV series, and later a motion picture)
[edit] 1980s and possibly 1990s
- Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch series (1980–1981) (originally a radio series, then a two book series).
- Chip, the robot teenager in the Not Quite Human series (1985-1986), by Seth McEvoy. Later, Disney made the book into two movies.
- Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe, in Kazuo Umezu's 1982 manga My name is Shingo
- Two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent and one perfectly criminal, in Roderick and Tik-Tok (1980, 1983) by John Sladek
- Frost, Beta, Mordel, and the Ore Crusher in Roger Zelazny's short story For a Breath I Tarry.
- The Boppers, a race of moon-based robots that achieve independence from humanity, in the series of books The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker.
- Solo, from Robert Mason's novel Weapon
[edit] 1990s
- 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 subsequentDiscworld novels
- Moravecs are sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium, (2003)
- Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese manga describes an espionage AI that achieves sentience. (1991)
- Thinkbot [2] - the robot who taught the world to be human.
[edit] 2000s
- Emily Dickinson in the Joyce Carol Oates story "EDickinsonRepliLuxe," (2006)
- Kim Fox is one of a number of sentient android characters in the Richard Evans stories Machine Nation (2002) and its sequel Robophobia (2004).
- Erasmus, an independent robot in the Legends of Dune series by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (2002-2004).
- R.O.V. (FirstEarth), a robot in the First Earth series.
[edit] Film
[edit] 1930s and earlier
- Futura in Metropolis (1927)
- Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film series (1936).
[edit] 1950s
- Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (film version of Farewell to the Master)
- Robbie, in Forbidden Planet (1956)
[edit] 1960s
- Patrik in Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
- B9 Robot in Lost In Space (1965-1968)
- Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967)
[edit] 1970s
- The all-robot police force in THX 1138 (1971)
- The drones Huey, Duey, and Louie, in Silent Running (1972). Notable as the first movie in which non-anthropomorphic robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees.
- The robots in Sleeper (1973)
- Jet Jaguar in Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- The robotic gunfighters in Westworld, one of which was played by Yul Brynner (1973)
- The bomb in Dark Star (1974, by John Carpenter)
- Mechagodzilla in various Godzilla films (1974).
- Box, in Logan's Run (1976)
- C-3PO, R2-D2 in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and subsequent films
- The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978)
- V.I.N.CENT., B.O.B, Maximillian and the androids made out of humans -- The Black Hole (1979)
- Ash in Alien (1979)
[edit] 1980s
- Hector, in Saturn 3 (1980)
- Uèr, an "electro-chemical" android capable of human feelings, in Milady 3000 comic book by Magnus (1980)
- The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael, and possibly Rick Deckard -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
- Max 404 and Cassandra One in Android (1982)
- T-800 as the robot assassin in The Terminator (1984)
- The young boy Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform in D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
- Bishop in Aliens (1986)
- Johnny 5 in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988), and later Hot Cars, Cold Facts (1990)
- Max, periscope-like robot aboard the Trimaxion Drone Ship in Flight of the Navigator (1986)
- Tik-Tok in Return to Oz (1985)
- ED-209 in RoboCop (1987)
- Cherry 2000 in Cherry 2000 (1987)
- The android Ulysses in the film Making Mr. Right (1987)
- Dot Matrix in Spaceballs (1987)
- The android Astor, played by Stacey Williams, in Gangster World (1988)
- Jinx from the 1986 film SpaceCamp.
[edit] 1990s
- The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 Model 101 and Robert Patrick as the T-1000 Model Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Alsatia Zevo, the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and dollmaker in Toys. (1992)
- Battle Droids in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
- Project 2501 in the Movie Adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese manga anime describes AI surveillance of population. (1995)
- Bishop (android) in Alien³ (1992)
- "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 (film) (1995) based on the short story Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
- Solo in Solo (1996), based on Robert Mason's novel (see above)
- Call in Alien: Resurrection (1997)
- "Robot" in Lost in Space, the movie of the TV series (1998)
- The Iron Giant (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
- Andrew, and others the robot servant in Bicentennial Man (1999) -- based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
- Vanessa the exploding fembot assassin in Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
[edit] 2000s
- AMEE the robot scout in the film Red Planet, who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship. (2000)
- Many robots, including David, the lead character, in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long (ISBN 0-312-28061-0).
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-850 Model 101 Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminator in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
- The robot butler B166ER, the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One, and the Sentinels from the Matrix series.(1999-2003)
- B-4, Data's brother in Star Trek: Nemesis (2003)
- Sonny (Type NS-5) and many other robots in I, Robot (2004)
- The monstrous robot dog in Rottweiler (2004)
- The entire cast of Robots (2005)
- The Vahki, the robot police enforcer in Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui and Bionicle storyline.
[edit] Television films and series
[edit] 1960s and earlier
- Rosie the Maid in The Jetsons (1962)
- Robert the Robot, the transparent mechanical spaceship co-pilot in the Fireball XL5 British puppet television series created by Gerry Anderson (1962)
- Various unnamed robots in the series Space Patrol (known as Planet Patrol in the US (1962)
- K-9, Kamelion, the Movellans, and many more, in the British Doctor Who series (1963–2005) (See also List of Doctor Who robots)
- Astro Boy from Astro Boy the Japanese animated series (1963–1966)
- "Rhoda Miller" in My Living Doll (1964)
- "The Cybernauts" in The Avengers (TV series) (1965)
- "Robot B-9" in Lost in Space TV series (1965–1968)
- Hymie the Robot in the comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970)
- Various minor characters and villains (Dr. Korby, Rayna, the Nomad probe, Mudd's androids) in Star Trek (1966–1969)
- Serendipity Dog - a robot character that asked questions on the BBC children's television science series Tom Tom (1960?-1969)
- Tobor The 8th Man in the Japanese Anime TV series. Also, his younger, stronger, but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7. See http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/tobor.htm
[edit] 1970s
- Voltes V, Japanese animated television series (1977)
- Zed, the rebel robot in The Ed and Zed Show (c1970)
- Questor, The Questor Tapes (1974)
- Mr. R.I.N.G. The Night Stalker (1975) Acronym stands for Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia
- Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)
- Officer Haven [Future Cop] (1976-77)
- The Clinkers, Shields and Yarnell (1977-78)
- K-9, the talking robotic dog (actually, dogs) from the British television series Doctor Who.
- Peepo, the robot from the children's series Space Academy (1977-1979)
- Haro, Mobile Suit Gundam (1977)
- 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1 in the animated series Battle of the Planets (1978)
- The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978–1980) (in the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor)
- "Hector" and "Vector" in Battlestar Galactica
- H.E.R.B.I.E. in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series
- Mermadon from the TV series Salvage 1, Government constructed android that was damaged and was suffering from a type of amnesia, when a firearm was shown to Mermadon, he reverted to battle mode, in which, a laser gun flipped out of his chest and mesh shield covered his eyes. When the government tracked him down to the Salvage 1 headquarters, Mermadon went into battle mode with full memory, when the Salvage 1 crew covered his eyes with a cloth, Mermadon's memory was returned, but his time with the Salvage 1 crew developed a conscience and did not want to go back with the government and he subsiquently pulled out vital circuits from his body and shut himself down permanently. (1979)
- Twiki and Dr. Theopolis in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
- W1k1 or Wiki, the pocket-sized robot from the children's series Jason of Star Command (1979-1981) (a seeming spinoff of Space Academy)
- Blake's Seven, science fiction series 1978-81, featured several robots and androids.
[edit] 1980s
- The BATs (Battle Android Trooper) of the evil Cobra Organization in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series, first appeared in 1986.
- Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV London Weekend Television children's magazine show The Saturday Banana in 1979 and then in his own show from 1980 to 1983
- KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a non-humanoid robot in the form of a car (and its prototype, KARR [Knight Automated Roving Robot]), from Knight Rider (1982–1986)
- The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984-present)
- Go-bots were featured in a Cartoon series also named Go-Bots around the same time as the Transformers series.
- Voltron Defender of the Universe (1984-1986)
- Vicki (Voice Input Child Indenticant) the little girl robot in Small Wonder (1985)
- Conky 2000, robot who gives out the secret word in Pee-wee's Playhouse , 1986 until 1991.
- Data, Lore, Lal (Data's daughter) and Juliana Tainer in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994, plus four movies)
- The synthoids from several episodes of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series (1985).
- Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy and Cambot from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
- The Skutters, Kryten, the Simulants and many others from Red Dwarf (1988)
- Blitz, a robotic dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S., 1988 and 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
- Jinx from the 1986 film SpaceCamp.
[edit] 1990s
- Androids 16-20 (Gero), Cell, and Super 17, Dragonball series.
- Sgt. Eve Edison, robot police officer in Mann & Machine (1992)
- Alpha from the TV series The Flash, a government constructed female android, gynoid, assasin, that develops a conscience and determines that killing is wrong and wishes to be free from government control. (1990 - 1991)
- Beta from the TV series The Flash, government built android assasin reprogrammed to find Alpha.
- Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993 - 1996) to Power Rangers: Turbo
- Battle Borgs from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1995)
- Alpha 6 from Power Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
- 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
- Buffybot, April and Ted in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
- Bender the robot, as well as Flexo, Santa-Bot and Kwanzaa-Bot, and other assorted robots including the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity robots, in the animated series Futurama (1999)
- Robot Devil, the demonic ruler of Robot Hell in the animated series Futurama (1999)
- The marionettes from the anime series Saber Marionette R (1995), Saber Marionette J (1997), Saber Marionette J Again OAV (1998), and Saber Marionette J to X (1999)
- The boy robot Rusty, of the animated series The Big Guy and Rusty
- Andromon and Guardromon, in the Digimon anime
- Satan's Robot, a meta-fictional robot in The Adventures of Captain Proton, a holodeck program from Star Trek: Voyager
- Zords, giant fighting machines from all seasons of Power Rangers
- Ian Favre, CPB officer in Total Recall 2070
[edit] 2000s
- Rommie Gabriel/Balance of Judgement, Pax Magelanic and various other warship AIs/Avatars from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (2001-2005)
- Frax from Power Rangers: Time Force
- Alpha 7 from Power Rangers: Wild Force
- XR, the indestrutible, self healing sidekick robot in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (also XL, the proto-version of XR)
- Chii, the Persocom in the Japanese anime series Chobits (2002)
- Robot Jones from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? (2002)
- The Tachikoma spider tanks from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Thundercleese from The Brak Show (2001–2003)
- GIR and the Robo-Parents from Invader Zim (2001)
- "Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman and her sisters from My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
- R. Dorothy Wayneright in The Big O (2003)
- The Mobile Doll systems onboard Virgos and other mobile suits in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
- B4 in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
- Cylons from Battlestar Galactica
- H.E.L.P.eR., a robot developed by Jonas Venture, Sr., in The Venture Bros.
- Jack Spicer's army of Jack-bots, including robots of himself and other people.
- Mahoro, the protagonist of Mahoromatic.
- Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot pet dog.
- Bill Cosby from South Park
- A.W.E.S.O.M.E.O. from South Park
- Mecha-Streisand from South Park
- R.I.C. 2.0, Robotic Interactive Canine who transforms itself into a Canine Cannon from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
- S.O.P.H.I.E., Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encriptor who is kidnapped and used for her programming from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
- The replicators, seen in multiple seasons of Stargate: SG-1.
- Toy Santa from The Santa Clause 2
- Mr Dent, nanotech enforcer from Codename Eternity
- MEGAS from Megas XLR
- Robert Torkelson, from Albert & Friends.
- X-5 from Atomic Betty
- Buffybot from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- April (Btvs) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Anne Droid, Trin-E, Zu-Zana and Davinadroid from the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf
- "Satan's Robot", usually in service for Dr. Chaotica but impressionable enough to sometimes work for good, in episodes of Star Trek: Voyager when the holodeck program Captain Proton is run
- Zeta from the tv show, The Zeta Project.
[edit] Comics/Graphic Novels
[edit] Comic Books
- The ABC Warriors from the comic 2000 AD, includes Hammerstein
- Android Andy, a parody of Robot Archie in Captain Britain
- The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android in Fantastic Four and various other Marvel Comics. Would later be featured in She Hulk's 2004 series under the name 'Awesome Andy'.
- Brassneck in The Dandy
- "Clickers" from Top 10
- Doctor Doom's Doombots in Fantastic Four (1961)
- Grag and Otho from the pulp magazines Captain Future & Startling Stories
- The Golden Age Human Torch in Marvel Comics, (1938)
- Jeremy Feeple and Professor Steamhead got replaced with badly constructed, unconvincing robot doubles (which eventually exploded) in an early issue of Ninja High School.
- The Manhunters in Green Lantern (1959)
- Mechanismo, a range of robo-Judges from Judge Dredd
- The Metal Men (1962)
- The Red Tornado, Amazo and Tomorrow Woman and Hourman III in JLA (1968)
- Robot Archie in the UK comic Valiant who has appeared in Zenith and Albion
- Ro-Busters, a 2000 AD series
- Robo-cops from Incal (by Moebius & Jodorowsky)
- Robotman in Doom Patrol (1963)
- The Sentinels in X-Men (1963)
- The Stellar Warriors from Karmatron (1986) by Oscar González Loyo.
- The Superman duplicates, Brainiac (pre-Crisis) and Kelex in Superman, (1958)
- Tonto and Lothar from The Metabarons.
- Robots from planet Des from polish serie "Gods from The Space", which was written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and ilustrated by Bogusław Polch.
- Ultron, the Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema in The Avengers (1963)
- Android from Frank Miller's "Hard Bolied".
[edit] Comic strips
- Robotman in the comic strip of the same name, which eventually became Monty.
[edit] Web based media
[edit] Animated Shorts/Series
[edit] Flash
- Rya Botkins of Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage
- June Crane of Bonus Stage (possibly not--see page for more details)
- The Grape Nuts Robot, Created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner Appears here [3]
- Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's My God, Robots!
[edit] Web Comics
- ARPA-01 (female type) and VIC-02 (male type) virtual intercourse companions in Sexy Losers' Scientific Erotican plot thread (2003)
- "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
- Ezekiel aka 'Zeke' - Formally known as the "X-bot", the anthropomorphised Xbox console from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
- J-LB8/Jalea Bates in Melonpool. Started as a robot, later to become 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 The Polymer City Chronicles.
- The Ottobot [4], 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. Other AnthroPCs have featured in Questionable Content.
- Robo-Britney B-1000, a T-1000 style robot from Justice Squad
- Robot Frank, an internet personality found at Robot Frank's website
- The giant talking dildo featured in Girly by Josh Lesnick.
- A sugar powered robot suit owned by Beefsteak from Filthy Lies!.
- The self-aware technology in Gene Catlow.
- Various characters in Freefall, including Helix.
- Various characters in 21st Century Fox.
- Various characters from Diesel Sweeties, including Clango Cyclotron.
[edit] Computer and video games
- Floyd, the lovable sidekick robot from the Infocom text adventure Planetfall.
- The distinct robots in the classic Mega Man series, including the main character Mega Man and the Robot Masters.
- The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series.
- Assorted monsters from the Final Fantasy series, including the superboss Omega Weapon.
- The Badniks, the E-Series robots and Metallix; all developed by Doctor Eggman in 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.
- Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat series.
- Robo from Chrono Trigger.
- The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in X-COM: UFO Defense.
- Jack and its variants from 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.
- 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.
- 343 Guilty Spark, from the Halo series of video games.
- Clank, Doctor Nefarious and countless others in the Ratchet & Clank series.
- KOS-MOS, MOMO, and the Realians from the Xenosaga trilogy.
- Thursday, sidekick of Captain Gordon the 37th Defender of Earth (and later itself the 38th Defender of Earth) from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
- 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.
- 2401 Penitent Tangent, from Halo 2.
- The entire Core army in Total Annihilation.
- 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.
- 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!. However, its creator, Dr. Crygor used him as a janitor.
- The Copyroid, a robot that allows a Net-Navi to be projected into the real world and interact with it in MegaMan Battle Network 6.
- Reverie (Hoshino Yumemi in the original Japanese version), a main character in the visual novel Planetarian.
- Quote and Curly Brace, the 'soldiers from the surface' in Doukutsu Monogatari.
[edit] Unsorted works
- Transmetropolitan features AIs who abuse virtual hallucinogens
- Various Star Trek "characters".
- Harry Harrison / Marvin Minsky: The Turing Option (novel)
- The Mind's I edited by Daniel C. Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter
- Arthur from The Journeyman Project video game series
- Solace in the Callahan's Place stories of Spider Robinson
- IQ-9 of Star Blazers, originally called Analyzer in Space Battleship Yamato.
- Haro, mascot character of U.C.Gundam.
- Sy Borg from Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage.
- Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the BBC radio series Nineteen Ninety-Four by William Osborne and Richard Turner.
- 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 Bag On Line Adventures written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. The characters and plotlines are also incorporated into the band's music.
- Robots from "System Shock" game.
- "Slo-Mo" from Space Precinct
- Shawabty The idea of something to do the work in the ancient Egypt
- Necron-99, later called "Peace" from the Ralph Bakshi film Wizards.
- Necrons from the WARHAMMER 40K table top game/hobby
[edit] See also
- Android
- Archive of fictional things
- Artificial intelligence
- Cyborgs in fiction
- Gynoid
- List of fictional computers
- Science fiction
[edit] External links
- Robot Hall of Fame at CMU – With fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2