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; 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.

See also the List of fictional computers for all fictional computers depicted as static machines.

Contents 1 Theatre 2 Literature 2.1 19th century and earlier 2.2 Early 1900s 2.3 1920s 2.4 1930s 2.5 1940s (and Isaac Asimov specifically) 2.6 1950s and 60s 2.7 1970s 2.8 1980s 2.9 1990s 3 Film 3.1 1930s and earlier 3.2 1950s 3.3 1960s 3.4 1970s 3.5 1980s 3.6 1990s 3.7 2000s 4 Television films and series 4.1 1960s and earlier 4.2 1970s 4.3 1980s 4.4 1990s 4.5 2000s 5 Comics 5.1 Comic Books/Graphic novels 5.1.1 American 5.1.2 British 5.1.3 European 5.1.4 South American 5.1.5 Manga (Japanese comics) 5.2 Comic strips 5.3 Web comics 6 Web based media 6.1 Animated shorts/series 6.1.1 Flash 6.2 Machinima 7 Computer and video games 8 Unsorted works 9 See also 10 External links

[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. It introduced and popularized the term robot. Čapek's Robots are biological machines that are assembled, as opposed to grown or born.

[edit] Literature

See also: Robots in literature

[edit] 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 then promptly fell in love with her after the goddess Aphrodite brings her to life.
• The bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer (circa 800 BC)
• 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)
• In Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia (1870) where it is the eponymous dancing doll
• A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' The Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
• 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 Tomorrow's 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.

[edit] Early 1900s

• Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum's children's fantasy novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
• Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books (1900-)and in the movie Return to Oz
• The "Metal Men" automata designed by a Thomas Edison-like scientist in Gustave Le Rouge's La Conspiration des Milliardaires (1899-1900).
• A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce (1909)
• 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 executed. 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.

[edit] 1920s

• Artificial people, in Karel Čapek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921) -- credited with coining the term "robot"
• Metropolis is a silent science fiction film created by the famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang which features a robotic gynoid ((gynoid -from Greek γυνη, gynē - woman) is a term used to describe a robot designed to look like a human female, as compared to an android modeled after a male) which is given the appearance of Maria, a character in the movie.

[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
• 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)

[edit] 1940s (and Isaac Asimov specifically)

• Gnut, in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940) - (Later made into the classic 1951 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

• Gort is a fictional robot in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still (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.)
• The Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953
• Robby the Robot, designed for the film Forbidden Planet and makes appearances on Lost in Space and elsewhere
• Zane Gort, a robot novelist, in the short story The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber, (1959)
• The November 13, 1959 episode of The Twilight Zone was titled The Lonely and deals with James Corry, a convicted murderer sentenced to 50 years solitary life on a barren desert planet. Allenby, the captain of the rocket which delivers supplies once each year, takes pity on Corry, and leaves him with a gynoid named Alicia who is indistinguishable from a live woman.
• Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a comic book and cartoon series. (1961)
• Rosie the Robot Maid is a robotic maid who worked for the fictional Jetson family on the animated series of the same name. She was an old obsolete model who was rescued from the scrap heap by Jane Jetson. (1962)
• Uniblab is a robot featured in an episode of the animated series The Jetsons, purchased by Mr. Spacely to manage his company, Spacely Sprockets. He resembles classic human managers by mistreating and informing on employees (specifically George Jetson) and playing up to the boss. (1962)
• 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)
• Model B-9 on the TV series Lost in Space (1965-1968) is an Environmental Control Robot, which had no given name and was known simply as "Robot".
• Trurl and Klapaucius, the robot geniuses of The Cyberiad (Cyberiada, 1967; transl. by Michael Kandel 1974) - collection of humorous stories about the exploits of Trurl and Klapaucius, "constructors" among robots.
• 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)

[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
• Silent Running is a 1972 science fiction film which features three drones that work on the space station. THe main character, Lowell, befriends the drones, renaming them Huey, Dewey and Louie (Drone 02, 01 and in absence 03 respectively), teaching them to plant trees and play poker (in a memorable scene).
• 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)
• In the 1973 movie Westworld, both male and female androids populate a resort where the guests' every dream and sexual fantasy can be made to come true. Yul Bryner famously portrays a western gunfighter android.
• R2-D2, C-3PO, and countless others in "Star Wars" (1977)
• In The Bionic Woman, the Fembots were a line of powerful life-like gynoids that Jaime Sommers fought in two multi-part episodes of the series: "Kill Oscar" (with help from Steve Austin) and "Fembots in Las Vegas". Despite the feminine prefix, there were also male versions, including some designed to impersonate particular individuals for the purpose of infiltration. While not truly artificially intelligent, the fembots still had extremely sophisticated programming that allowed them to pass for human in most situations.
• 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)
• The Cylons are a cybernetic civilization at war with the Twelve Colonies of humanity in the Battlestar Galactica science fiction franchise, in the original 1978; within the story the Cylons are also the race who created the robot Cylons.

[edit] 1980s

• 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 three movies.
• Two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent and one perfectly criminal, in Roderick and Tik-Tok (1980, 1983) by John Sladek
• The Boppers, a race of moon-based robots that achieve independence from humanity, in the series of books The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker.
• Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Solo, from Robert Mason's novel Weapon
• L-Ron, from the DC Comics series "Justice League International."

[edit] 1990s

• Yod in Marge Piercy's He, She and It (1991)
• 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
• Robot from the Lost in Space film (1998)
• Moravecs are sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium, (2003)

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[edit] Film

[edit] 1930s and earlier

• Maria/Futura, the Maschinenmensch from Metropolis (1927). A gynoid, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic-appearing and human-appearing forms,
• 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 adaptation of "Farewell to the Master" short story)
• Robby, in Forbidden Planet (1956)
• Ro-Man, a robot bent on destroying earth, in the movie Robot Monster (1952).
• Tobor, in "Tobor the Great" (1954)

[edit] 1960s

• John in Planeta Bur (aka Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet) (1962)
• Patrik in Ikarie XB-1 (1963)
• The Robot (B-9) in Lost in Space (1965)
• Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967)
• Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Robot 5 in Slim John (1969)

[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 and other androids 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)
• Necron-99, later called "Peace" from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards (1977).
• C-3PO, R2-D2 in Star Wars (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)
• Ilia probe in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (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, 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 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)
• 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.
• Val, Aqua, Phil and others from 1981's Heartbeeps
• Robotman in the animated series as created by Jim Meddick

[edit] 1990s

• MARK13 in Hardware
• The good and evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-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 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
• The seductive Fembot assassins of the Austin Powers series (in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, it's revealed that Vanessa Kensington - Elizabeth Hurley - was a fembot, and in Austin Powers in Goldmember, Britney Spears is one).
• The Sentinels from The Matrix.
• Bender Bending Rodríguez from Futurama.
• The Enforcer Drone from the 1990 film Spaced Invaders
• Eve from Eve of Destruction (1991)
• Evolver, villain from the movie Evolver (1995)

[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).
• R4-P17 and the Droid Army in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith (2002) (2005).
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-850 Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminator in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003).
• G2 from Inspector Gadget 2.
• The robot butler B166ER and the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One from The Animatrix.
• The Sentinels from the Matrix series (1999-2003).
• B-4, Data's brother in Star Trek Nemesis (2003).
• The "dolls", including Ria, in Natural City (2003).
• Sonny (Type NS-5), VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), 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 also Maxilos for 07 storyline.
• "EDI" ("Extreme Deep Invader") from Stealth (2005).
• Autobots and Decepticons in the 2007 film, Transformers
• Transmorphers
• Dor-15 and Carl in the 2007 film Meet the Robinsons

[edit] Television films and series

[edit] 1960s and earlier

• 'Andromeda'^{[disambiguation needed]} in A for Andromeda (1961)
• Rosie the Maid, Max and UniBlab 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 (1962) (known as Planet Patrol in the US)
• K-9, Kamelion, the Movellans, and many more, in the British Doctor Who series (1963–2005) (See also List of Doctor Who robots)
• Braman, built by Brains in the British marionnettes series Thunderbirds, appears in several episodes (1964-1965)
• 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)
• Slim John, from the BBC television series. (1969)
• Tobor The 8th Man in the Japanese anime TV series. Also, his older, stronger, but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7. See http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/tobor.htm

[edit] 1970s

• S.A.M. (Sesame Street) the robot from Sesame Street
• 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. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1975) Acronym stands for Robomatic Internalized Nerve Ganglia
• Fi and Fum, the time-travelling androids from the children's series The Lost Saucer. (1975 - 1976)
• Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)
• Officer Haven in [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 subsequently 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 7, 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
• Clockwork Smurf, a smurf robot invented by Handy Smurf, who later becomes the companion of King Gerard in several episodes of The Smurfs
• 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)
• Robostory, this French cartoon had various robots in its main cast.
• 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 The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Japanese animated series (1984), in which these pilots are humans with mechanical implants instead of androids with artificial souls.
• 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 inferred by the show's storyline.
• 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.
• Metalhead, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 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).
• 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)
• 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.
• 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
• Jinx from the 1986 film SpaceCamp.
• Simon, a humanoid robot with the mind scanned from a dead little boy with AI technology. He was built by the boys father to preserve the life of his son. Appeared in Tales from the Darkside
• Robin, a small robot made by the clown Bassie in the children's series Bassie en Adriaan
• Arale Norimaki, the main character of the Japanese animated series Dr. Slump
• Kamelion, the shape shifting robot companion from Doctor Who

[edit] 1990s

• Androids 16-20 (Gero), Cell, Super 17 and many others, Dragon Ball series.
• Sgt. Eve Edison, robot police officer in Mann & Machine (1992)
• Alpha from the TV series The Flash, a government constructed female android, gynoid, assassin, 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 assassin reprogrammed to find Alpha.
• The Bots Master, a cartoon series that was featured on the Fox network about a genius boy called Ziv "ZZ" Zulander who controls many robots. (1993)
• Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993–1996) to Power Rangers: Turbo
• Machine Empire from Power Rangers
• Battle Borgs from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1995)
• Alpha 6 from Power Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy and Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive
• 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)
• Melfina from Outlaw Star.
• Foot Soldiers from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Psycho Rangers from Power Rangers
• Quantrons from Power Rangers in Space
• 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 (1998), and Saber Marionette J to X (1999)
• Rusty, the boy robot of the animated series 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
• Zords, giant fighting machines from all seasons of Power Rangers series
• Ian Favre, CPB officer in Total Recall 2070
• Multi (HMX-12), Serio (HMX-13) are experimental humanoid maid robots from ToHeart anime
• Zero the service robot in Earth 2 (TV series)
• Beetleborg AVs (Attack Vehicles) and Gargantis the Attack Mobile Carrier in Big Bad Beetleborgs.
• Beetleborg BVs (Battle Vehicles) in Beetleborgs Metallix.
• 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.

[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.
• Constable Biggles from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
• Cyclobots from Power Rangers: Time Force
• 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 in Xiaolin Showdown.
• Karaibots from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Krybots from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
• Mahoro, the protagonist of Mahoromatic.
• Goddard', Jimmy Neutrons robot pet dog.
• Bill Cosby from South Park
• Mecha-Streisand from South Park
• Megas from Megas XLR
• 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.
• T-Bot, from Megas XLR
• TurtleBot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• 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
• 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.
• HMX-17a Ilfa, HMX-17b Milfa, and HMX-17c Shilfa are experimental maid robot from ToHeart2
• Miyu Greer from the anime series My-HiME and My-Otome.
• Briareos is a cyborg from Appleseed Japanese manga
• SILKY(MMF108-41) is egosystem robot from POST GIRL
• Serling from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward
• Mackenzie Hartford from Power Rangers: Operation Overdrive
• Gunslinger from Trinity Blood
• Yui, an otaku's android maid from Koharu Biyori
• Robositter, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force

[edit] Comics

[edit] Comic Books/Graphic novels

[edit] American

• 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'.
• "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.
• Doctor Doom's Doombots in Fantastic Four (1961)
• 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 & 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 Living Brain from Spider-Man comics
• Machine Man aka Aaron Stack from Marvel Comics
• The Manhunters in Green Lantern (1959)
• The Metal Men (1962)
• Mousers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• The Red Tornado, Amazo and Tomorrow Woman and Hourman III in JLA (1968)
• Robotman in DC Comics Doom Patrol (1963)
• The Robots in the comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter. These include:
  • 1A, the oldest sentient robot, protector of mankind, who raised Magnus.
  • H8, the robot police chief, who plots against mankind.
• The Sentinels in X-Men (1963)
• 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.
• Android from Frank Miller's "Hard Bolied"
• Wall-E, EVE, and M-O and every other robot from Disney/Pixar's Wall-E.

[edit] British

• The ABC Warriors from the comic 2000 AD, includes Hammerstein
• Android Andy, a parody of Robot Archie in Captain Britain
• Armoured Gideon from 2000AD.
• Brassneck in The Dandy
• Mechanismo, a range of robo-Judges from Judge Dredd
• 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

[edit] European

• Robo-cops from Incal (by Moebius & Jodorowsky)
• Robots from planet Des from polish series "Gods from The Space", written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and illustrated by Bogusław Polch.
• Otomox, the self-proclaimed "Robot Master" [2]

[edit] South American

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

[edit] Manga (Japanese comics)

• Doraemon in a manga by Fujiko Fujio (1969)
• Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese manga describes an espionage AI that achieves sentience. (1991)
• Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe, in Kazuo Umezu's 1982 manga My name is Shingo
• Chachamaru Karakuri, plus other robots, in the manga Negima by Ken Akamatsu.
• Banpei and Sigel in Oh My Goddess! by Kosuke Fujishima.
• Rin Asakura, Bathyscaphe and other robots, cyborgs and space-vessels-that-look-like-humans in The World of Narue, by Tomohiro Marukawa

[edit] Comic strips

• Robotman 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.

[edit] Web comics

• Alice, Garth's sentient computer in Comedity.
• Atomic Chef, a cooking robot from the Isle of Wight, who awaits the end of the world in Slough, England.[3]
• 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
• 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 aka '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.
• 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
• 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] Web based media

[edit] Animated shorts/series

[edit] 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 Grape Nuts Robot, Created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner Appears here [5]
• Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's My God, Robots!

[edit] Machinima

• Lopez, Church, and Tex - characters from the Rooster Teeth machinima Red vs. Blue. Only Lopez is a true artificial lifeform, as both Church and Tex exist only as ghosts. Both characters died during the course of the series, existing from that point onward as ghosts. They possess mechanical bodies similar to Lopez, however.

[edit] Computer and video games

• The many mining and defense robots in the Descent series of 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 Dr. Robotnik 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, much like human beings.
• 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.
• Jack and its variants 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Yumemi Hoshino, a main character in the visual novel Planetarian: Chiisana Hoshi no Yume.
• Quote and Curly Brace, the 'soldiers from the surface' in Doukutsu Monogatari.
• Serval Protoss units from StarCraft are robotic
• Most GUN units from Sonic the Hedgehog series are robots
• LapTrap from The Learning Company's The ClueFinders series.
• R-110 from TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
• 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 also in ganbare goemon that is modelled after Goemon himself
• Miss impact, a female counterpart to Goemon impact also in ganbare goemon that is modelled after omistu
• 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.
• Cortana in the first of the Halo trilogy, Halo: Combat Evolved

[edit] Unsorted works

• Transmetropolitan features AIs who abuse virtual hallucinogens
• 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.
• Robots from "System Shock" game.
• "Slo-Mo" from Space Precinct
• Shawabty The idea of something to do the work in the ancient Egypt
• Necrons from the WARHAMMER 40K table top game/hobby
• Rick and his Robot (One of the four pillar of Elephant in the Snake)
• ARTI the Interactive Museum Robot KumoTek Robotics

[edit] See also

• Android
• Cyborgs in fiction
• Fictional artificial intelligence
• Gynoid
• List of fictional computers
• List of fictional cyborgs
• Science fiction

[edit] External links

• Robots in Movies – Over 600 movies with Robots, Androids, Cyborgs and A.I.
• Robots on TV – Over 300 TV-Series with Robots, Androids, Cyborgs and A.I.
• Robot Hall of Fame at CMU – With fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2
• Answers.com list of fictional robots and androids
• AllExperts list of fictional robots and androids
• LaberLawTalk list of fictional robots and androids
• Round-up of fictional TV and movie robots at Den Of Geek
• Analysis of the greatest evil robots in fiction at Mahalo