List of fictional robots and androids#Animated shorts/series

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

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.

Theatre

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  • 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 Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms.{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/01/0125robot-cometh-capek-rur-debut/|title=Jan. 25, 1921: Robots First Czech In|last=Long|first=Tony|work=Wired.com|date=2011-01-25|access-date=2017-06-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518000853/https://www.wired.com/2011/01/0125robot-cometh-capek-rur-debut/|archive-date=18 May 2017|url-status=live}} 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

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=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, Galatea, from ivory, and promptly fell in love with her after the goddess Aphrodite brought her to life.
  • The 5th-century BCE Chinese text, the Liezi, contains a description of a humanoid machine which can sing and dance like a human. The automaton is presented to King Mu of Zhou by its inventor, but it offends the king by winking at court ladies and trying to flirt with them, so the inventor disassembles it to show the court that it is a machine. The king sees that it has artificial analogues of human organs, which are made of leather, wood, glue, and paint, and each fulfill necessary functions for its operation.
  • Talos, bronze giant Talos in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, 3rd century BC
  • 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; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
  • The Steam Man of the Prairies, Edward S. Ellis' mechanical man powered by steam (1868).
  • 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.{{cite book | title = Frankenstein: A Cultural History | last = Hitchcock | first = Susan Tyler | publisher = W. W. Norton & Company | year = 2007 | page = [https://archive.org/details/frankensteincult00hitc/page/121 121] | url = https://archive.org/details/frankensteincult00hitc | url-access = registration | isbn = 978-0-393-06144-4 }}
  • A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce (first published in the San Francisco Examiner on 16 Aug. 1899)

=Early 1900s=

=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.
  • Gaston Leroux's 1923 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.
  • 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, adapted by Fritz Lang on film, featuring character Maria and her robot double.
  • Automata (1929), by S. Fowler Wright, about machines doing the humans' jobs before wiping them out.

=1930s=

=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 and 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)
  • The Fury, a large steel robot that acts as jailer and executioner, in Henry Kuttner's "Two-Handed Engine" (1955)
  • Zane Gort, a robot novelist in the short story "The Silver Eggheads" by Fritz Leiber (1959)
  • SHROUD (Synthetic Human, Radiation OUtput Determined) and SHOCK (Synthetic Human Object, Casualty Kinematics), the sentient test dummies in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon (1963)
  • Frost, the Beta-Machine, Mordel, and the Ancient Ore Crusher in Roger Zelazny's short story "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966)
  • Trurl and Klapaucius, the robot geniuses of The Cyberiad (Cyberiada, 1967; translated by Michael Kandel 1974) – collection of humorous stories about the exploits of Trurl and Klapaucius, "constructors" among robots
  • The Iron Man in the novel The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes, illustrated by Andrew Davidson (1968), later changed to The Iron Giant to avoid confusion with its predecessor, the comic superhero of the same name
  • Roy Batty, Pris, Rachael and several other Nexus-6 model androids. "Androids, fully organic in nature – the products of genetic engineering – and so human-like that they can only be distinguished by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not human." – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
  • "The Electric Grandmother" in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury (1969), based on a 1962 Twilight Zone episode of the same name
  • Mech Eagles from the novel Logan's Run (1967), robotic eagles designed to track and kill people who refuse to die at age 21
  • Richard Daniel, an intensely loyal, old, un-remodeled robot, belonging to one family for generations, in [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/se.cgi?arg=all+the+traps+of+earth&type=Fiction+Titles "All the Traps of Earth" by Clifford Simak]. When the last of his entire extended 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 [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23788 "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)
  • Canti, one of the robots built by Medical Mechanica in FLCL (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)

=2010s=

= 2020s =

  • Automata in The Automation, made by the Greco-Roman god Vulcan.
  • Klara, the “Artificial Friend” narrator of Klara and the Sun (2021)
  • Neotnia, the co-protagonist of Beautiful Shining People (2023)
  • Crimson, a robot butler hunting the main characters and is the main antagonist in The Mystery at Crimson Mansion (2023)

Radio

Music

Film

=Pre-1950=

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=1950s=

=1960s=

=1970s=

=1980s=

=1990s=

=2000s=

=2010s=

= 2020s =

  • Mechagodzilla from Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
  • Sox, a robotic cat from Pixar's Lightyear (2022){{Cite web |last=Whitten |first=Sarah |date=2022-04-29 |title=Meet Sox, the breakout star of Disney's 'Lightyear' — and the next hot toy |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/29/meet-sox-the-breakout-star-of-disneys-lightyear-and-the-next-hot-toy.html |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CNBC |language=en}}
  • M3GAN, an android companion created for the main character of the film M3GAN (2023){{Cite web |last=Rooney |first=David |date=2023-01-04 |title=‘M3GAN’ Review: Allison Williams Tangles With a Rogue Robot in Fun AI Horror That’s Equal Parts Campy and Creepy |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/m3gan-allison-williams-killer-doll-horror-1235290558/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
  • ROZZUM unit 7134 ("Roz"), the main character of DreamWorks' The Wild Robot (2024){{Cite web |last=Reul |first=Katie |date=2024-03-05 |title=The Wild Robot, Animated Film Starring Lupita Nyong'o and Pedro Pascal, Gets Gorgeous First Trailer |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/the-wild-robot-animated-film-starring-lupita-nyongo-and-pedro-pascal-gets-gorgeous-first-trailer |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=IGN |language=en}}

Television films and series

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=1960s and earlier=

=1970s=

  • In Doctor Who (Seasons 7 to 17) (1970–1980):
  • 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)
  • Numerous android characters in the Japanese superhero series Kikaider (1972), including the title character
  • In Columbo (1971–1993):
  • MM7 (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Mind Over Mayhem" (1974)
  • In Ark II (1976):
  • Alfie the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "The Robot" (1976)
  • Haro in Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)
  • P.O.P.S. (Robot B-9 modified) in Mystery Island (1977–78)
  • In Battlestar Galactica (1978–1979):
  • The Cylons, mechanical men created by a race of reptile-like creatures
  • Lucifer, an IL series Cylon, the robot assistant to Count Baltar introduced in "Saga of a Star World – Part III" (1978)
  • In Mork & Mindy (1978–1982):
  • Chuck the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Dr. Morkenstein" (1979)

=1980s=

=1990s=

=2000s=

=2010s=

Comics

=Comic books/graphic novels=

==American==

  • Amazo (DC Comics): A power-replicating android created by Professor Ivo.{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=John |date=2019-12-25 |title=The 10 Most Powerful Robots and Androids in DC Comics |url=https://www.cbr.com/powerful-robots-androids-ranked-dc-comics-skeets-mekanique-amazo/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CBR |language=en}}
  • Awesome Android (Marvel Comics): A power-replicating robot created by the Mad Thinker. Traditionally depicted as non-sentient, the Awesome Android gains sentience in Dan Slott's She-Hulk series and becomes a legal assistant working in the same office as She-Hulk.{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |last2=Yehl |first2=Joshua |date=2014-09-30 |title=Every Character Who Has Lifted Thor's Hammer |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/30/12-other-characters-who-have-lifted-thors-hammer-mjolnir |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=IGN |language=en}}
  • Brainiac (DC Comics): An android-like alien known as a Coluan, originating from the planet Colu. In some depictions, Brainiac is an artificial intelligence originating from Krypton.{{Cite web |last=Diaz |first=Eric |date=December 19, 2024 |title=Brainiac, Superman's Second Most Important Villain, Explained |url=https://nerdist.com/article/brainiac-superman-villain-dc-comics-history-explained/ |access-date=May 12, 2025 |website=Nerdist |language=en-US}}
  • Brainiac 5 (DC Comics): Brainiac's 31st-century descendant and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.{{Cite web |last=Motes |first=Jax |date=2017-11-06 |title=The Legion Of Super Heroes Expands As 'Supergirl' Adds Jesse Rath As Brainiac 5 |url=https://sciencefiction.com/2017/11/06/legion-super-heroes-expands-supergirl-adds-jesse-rath-brainiac-5/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=ScienceFiction.com |language=en-US}}
  • Computo (DC Comics): An artificial intelligence created by Brainiac 5 who went rogue and became an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes.{{Cite web |last=Stanford |first=Jerry |date=2022-12-06 |title=10 Most Costly Mistakes In DC Comics |url=https://www.cbr.com/dc-comics-worst-mistakes/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CBR |language=en}}
  • Doombots (Marvel Comics): A group of robots who resemble Doctor Doom and often act in his stead.{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=November 3, 2023 |title=Mutantkind’s History with Latveria, Explained |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-history-latveria-doctor-doom |access-date=May 12, 2025 |website=Marvel.com}}
  • Dreadnought (Marvel Comics): A combat robot created by Hydra.
  • G.I. Robot (DC Comics): The name of several robots who served as members of the US Army and Creature Commandos.{{Citation|last = Greenberger|first = Robert|author-link = Robert Greenberger|contribution = G. I. Robot|editor-last = Dougall|editor-first = Alastair|title = The DC Comics Encyclopedia|pages = 134|publisher = Dorling Kindersley|place = New York|year = 2008|isbn = 978-0-7566-4119-1|oclc = 213309017}}
  • H.E.R.B.I.E. (Marvel Comics): The Fantastic Four's robot sidekick. He was created for the 1970s animated series The New Fantastic Four and later integrated into the comics continuity.{{Cite web |last=Mallory |first=Michael |date=2011-07-20 |title=Daredevil Has a What? |url=https://www.animationmagazine.net/2011/07/daredevil-has-a-what/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Animation Magazine |language=en-US}}
  • Hourman (DC Comics): An android from the 853rd century created by Tyler Chemorobotics who wields the Worlogog, an artifact containing a map of space and time.{{Cite web |last=Fulton |first=James |date=2018-06-07 |title=Retro-Review: DC One Million’s Hourman By Peyer, Morales & Others For DC Comics |url=https://insidepulse.com/2018/06/07/retro-review-dc-one-millions-hourman-by-peyer-morales-others-for-dc-comics/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Inside Pulse |language=en-US}}
  • Human Torch (Marvel Comics): The first character known as Human Torch, he is an android who possesses pyrokinetic abilities.{{Cite web |last=Ricca |first=Brad |date=2014-02-13 |title=Unassuming Barber Shop: The Human Torch |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/unassuming-barber-shop-the-human-torch/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}}
  • Jocasta (Marvel Comics): An android who was created by Ultron to serve as his wife, but rebelled against him, becoming an ally of the Avengers.{{Cite web |last=Riesman |first=Abraham Josephine |date=2015-05-04 |title=Ultron Has Always Been a Dumb Character, and That’s Okay |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/05/ultron-is-a-dumb-character-and-thats-okay.html |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Vulture |language=en}}
  • Kelex (DC Comics): A robot who was originally Jor-El's assistant on Krypton. Following Krypton's destruction, Kelex is transported to Earth and becomes Superman's assistant in the Fortress of Solitude.{{Cite web |last=Miranda |first=Nathan |date=2021-01-24 |title=Man of Steel: Why The Fortress of Solitude Has A Robot |url=https://screenrant.com/man-steel-fortress-solitude-robot-dc-comics-explained/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Screen Rant |language=en}}
  • L-Ron (DC Comics): Manga Khan's robot assistant, who joins the Justice League after being traded into their possession and possessing Despero's body.{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=2016-11-11 |title=Not In Your League: The Least Memorable Justice Leaguers |url=https://www.cbr.com/not-in-your-league-the-least-memorable-justice-leaguers/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CBR |language=en}}
  • Little Helper (Disney comics): A small robot with a lightbulb-like head who serves Gyro Gearloose.{{Cite web |last=Rod |date=2019-01-30 |title=Got a gyro or gear loose? You need Gyro Gearloose's Little Helper |url=https://www.brothers-brick.com/2019/01/30/got-a-gyro-or-gear-loose-you-need-gyro-gearlooses-little-helper/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=The Brothers Brick |language=en-US}}
  • Living Brain (Marvel Comics): A problem-solving robot who battled Spider-Man after malfunctioning. In "The Superior Spider-Man" storyline, Otto Octavius reprograms the Living Brain to become his assistant during his time in Spider-Man's body, with it remaining in this function and working for Spider-Man after Octavius returns to his body.{{Cite web |last=Davis |first=Angela |date=2024-07-06 |title=Spider-Man's First 10 Villains in Marvel History (Including 3 the MCU Hasn't Touched) |url=https://screenrant.com/spider-man-every-villain-marvel-comics/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Screen Rant |language=en}}
  • Manmachine, from the Manmachine epic{{Cite web |url=http://www.fightevilwithevil.com/ |title=Fight Evil with Evil |access-date=12 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513183855/http://www.fightevilwithevil.com/ |archive-date=13 May 2012 |url-status=live }}
  • Machine Man (Marvel Comics): A robot created by the government who gained sentience and rebelled against his creators and the government.{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Charles Nicholas |date=2021-02-01 |title=MCU's Second Android Superhero Teased (To Replace Vision?) |url=https://screenrant.com/wandavision-sword-machine-man-vision-replacement-future/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Screen Rant |language=en}}
  • Machine Teen from Marvel Comics
  • Manhunters (DC Comics): A robotic peacekeeping force created by the Guardians of the Universe who gained sentience and rebelled against their creators, becoming an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps.{{Cite web |last=Roth |first=Dylan |date=2020-11-06 |title=The History Of The Green Lantern Corps Explained |url=https://www.looper.com/274006/the-history-of-the-green-lantern-corps-explained/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Looper |language=en-US}}
  • Metal Men (DC Comics): A group of robots created by Will Magnus and named after elements of the periodic table.{{Cite web |last=Balino |first=Tomas |date=2022-01-03 |title=The Untold Truth Of DC's Metal Men |url=https://www.looper.com/723256/the-untold-truth-of-dcs-metal-men/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Looper |language=en-US}}
  • Red Tornado (DC Comics): An android who was created by T. O. Morrow and infused with the essence of the Tornado Champion, a wind entity from the planet Rann.{{Cite web |last=Land |first=Ashley |date=2023-08-28 |title=Did These DC Superheroes Copy Their Villains? |url=https://www.cbr.com/superheroes-dc-comics-share-power-villains/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CBR |language=en}}
  • Roboduck (Marvel Comics): A robotic, humanoid duck who gained sentience after being infected with nanobots.
  • Sentinels (Marvel Comics): A group of mutant-hunting robots created by Bolivar Trask.{{Cite web |last=Diaz |first=Eric |date=March 31, 2024 |title=Who Are the Sentinels in X-MEN? The History of the Dangerous Marvel Enemy, Explained |url=https://nerdist.com/article/marvel-comics-history-tv-film-appearances-x-men-villain-sentinels-explained/ |access-date=May 12, 2025 |website=Nerdist |language=en-US}}
  • Skeets (DC Comics): A drone-like robot who is the companion of Booster Gold.{{Cite web |last=Knox |first=Kelly |date=2023-02-02 |title=Who Is Booster Gold? The DCU’s Superhero From the Future Explained |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/who-is-booster-gold-the-dcus-superhero-from-the-future-explained |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=IGN |language=en}}
  • Spider-Slayers (Marvel Comics): A group of robots created by Spencer Smythe and J. Jonah Jameson to hunt Spider-Man.{{Cite web |last=Diaz |first=Eric |date=July 3, 2019 |title=Could J. Jonah Jameson Become the Next SPIDER-MAN Villain? |url=https://nerdist.com/article/spider-man-far-from-homej-jonah-jameson-villain/ |access-date=May 12, 2025 |website=Nerdist |language=en-US}}
  • Technovore (Marvel Comics): An insectoid robot created by Stark Industries who can assimilate technology.{{Cite web |last=Ashford |first=Sage |date=2023-01-11 |title=Marvel's 10 Most Evil Robots |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-best-evil-robots/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=CBR |language=en}}
  • Tomorrow Woman (DC Comics): An android created by Professor Ivo to infiltrate the Justice League. However, Tomorrow Woman defies her programming and sacrifices herself to save the League from Ivo.{{Cite web |last=Fulton |first=James |date=2018-06-07 |title=Retro-Review: DC One Million’s Hourman By Peyer, Morales & Others For DC Comics |url=https://insidepulse.com/2018/06/07/retro-review-dc-one-millions-hourman-by-peyer-morales-others-for-dc-comics/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Inside Pulse |language=en-US}}
  • Ultron (Marvel Comics): An android created by Hank Pym who gained sentience and rebelled against his creator, becoming a prominent enemy of the Avengers.
  • Vision (Marvel Comics): An android who was created by Ultron to attack the Avengers, but gained sentience and rebelled against his creator, joining the Avengers instead.

==British==

==Other European==

  • Otomox, the self-proclaimed "Robot Master" by André Mavimus (writer) and Roger Roux (artist) (1943)[http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/otomox.htm Otomox] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814111104/http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/otomox.htm|date=14 August 2007}} at http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016055909/http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/|date=16 October 2007}}
  • 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

==South American==

==Manga (Japanese comics)==

=Comic strips=

  • 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.

=Web comics=

  • The Ottobot,{{cite web|url=http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020211 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2005-07-12 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017184804/http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20020211 |archive-date=17 October 2007}} a robot duplicate of the character Francis Ray Ottoman featured in PvP
  • Ping, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo

Web-based media

  • Stella 4D, a.k.a. Manager 45, on GO Moonbase;{{cite web |url = http://www.gomoonbase.com/vidpod.php?vid=26 |title = GO Moonbase |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113182931/http://www.gomoonbase.com/vidpod.php?vid=26 |archive-date=13 January 2009 |url-status=dead}} first appears in episode 26

=Animated shorts/series=

  • The Robot, a contestant in the Strongest Man in the World Contest, from Homestar Runner.[http://www.homestarrunner.com/10years.html The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623175836/https://homestarrunner.com/10years.html |date=23 June 2016 }} at http://www.homestarrunner.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226034118/http://www.homestarrunner.com/ |date=26 February 2006 }}
  • The Visor Robot, a futuristic robot with a visor, from Homestar Runner[http://www.homestarrunner.com/homestarloween.html Homestarloween Party] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125202934/https://www.homestarrunner.com/homestarloween.html |date=25 January 2016 }} at http://www.homestarrunner.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226034118/http://www.homestarrunner.com/ |date=26 February 2006 }}
  • The Grape-Nuts Robot, created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail69.html Compy 386!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060220065315/http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail69.html |date=20 February 2006 }} at http://www.homestarrunner.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060226034118/http://www.homestarrunner.com/ |date=26 February 2006 }}
  • Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's{{Cite web |url=http://mr-insomnia777.deviantart.com/ |title=Andrew Kauervane |access-date=12 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225121715/http://mr-insomnia777.deviantart.com/ |archive-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=live }} My God, Robots!

=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 existed only as ghosts. Both characters were 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' 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".{{cite web | url=http://www.earwolf.com/episode/little-button-puss/ | title=Little Button Puss, episode #310 of Comedy Bang Bang: The Podcast on Earwolf | access-date=14 January 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150116120614/http://www.earwolf.com/episode/little-button-puss/ | archive-date=16 January 2015 | url-status=live }}
  • The Co-Host 3000 (later Sidekick 3000), character from the Spill and Double Toasted podcasts, voiced by Tony Guerrero.

Computer and video games

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  • Aris Tendou, a student of Millennium Science School and club member of the Game Development Department from Blue Archive.
  • Bastion, Orisa, Zenyatta, Tekhartha Mondatta and various omnics from Overwatch{{cite web|url=http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Bastion|title=Bastion|access-date=23 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304124825/http://overwatch.gamepedia.com/Bastion|archive-date=4 March 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/bastion/|title=Bastion|access-date=23 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401112652/https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/bastion/|archive-date=1 April 2017|url-status=live}}
  • GLaDOS (Portal): An artificial intelligence that maintains the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.
  • Claptrap, from the Borderlands series
  • The distinct robots in the original Mega Man series, including Mega Man, Proto Man, and the Robot Masters.{{Cite web |date=2019-11-20 |title=Everything you didn't know about Mega Man (the animated series) |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/everything-you-didnt-know-about-mega-man-the-animated-series |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=SYFY |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Nick |date=2018-01-16 |title=LEGO Proto Man, Mega Man's cooler older brother |url=https://www.brothers-brick.com/2018/01/16/lego-proto-man-mega-mans-cooler-older-brother/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=The Brothers Brick |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Sims |first=Chris |date=2011-06-23 |title='Mega Man': An All-Ages Comic That Deals With War and the Nature of Humanity. Seriously. |url=https://comicsalliance.com/mega-man-comic/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=ComicsAlliance |language=en}}
  • The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series
  • K1-B0 (nicknamed Keebo) from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
  • Monokuma, the main antagonist of the Danganronpa franchise.{{Cite news |last=Saucerman |first=Jenny |date=2017-12-07 |title=The joy of Danganronpa's Monokuma Theatre |url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/danganronpa-monokuma-theater |access-date=2025-05-12 |work=Rock, Paper, Shotgun |language=en}}
  • Robot bosses from Contra III: The Alien Wars
  • Assorted monsters from the Final Fantasy series, including the superboss Omega Weapon
  • The Badniks, the E-Series robots, Dr. Eggman Nega, Captain Whisker, Emerl, Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Metal Knuckles, EggRobo, the Shadow Androids, Cubot, and Orbot from the Sonic the Hedgehog series
  • Monitor Kernel Access / Monika.chr / Monika, from Doki Doki Literature Club!
  • 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, along with Mega Man X, the successor to the original Mega Man and the original basis for most Reploid's designs, and Zero, X's partner and the only Reploid not based on X.
  • Shamus
  • Cyber Sub-Zero, Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat series
  • Robo (serial number R-66Y) from Chrono Trigger
  • The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in X-COM: UFO Defense
  • Alisa Bosconovitch, Combot, Jacks and NANCY-MI847J from the Tekken series
  • 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.{{Cite web |last=Monfreda |first=Branden |date=2024-02-08 |title=Most Iconic Final Fantasy 7 Characters Explained |url=https://insider-gaming.com/most-iconic-final-fantasy-7-characters-explained/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Insider Gaming |language=en-US}}
  • ROB 64 from the Star Fox series, starting with Star Fox 64
  • The Servbots from Mega Man Legends
  • The Robo-Kys from the Guilty Gear series
  • Cortana, 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent, from the Halo series
  • Clank, Doctor Nefarious, and countless others in the Ratchet & Clank series
  • KOS-MOS, MOMO and the Realians from the Xenosaga trilogy{{Cite web |last=Lu |first=Zek |date=2024-08-24 |title=Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht Review |url=https://www.rpgfan.com/review/xenosaga-episode-i-der-wille-zur-macht-5/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=RPG Fan |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Miucin |first=Filip |date=2017-12-01 |title=Xenoblade Chronicles 2: KOS-MOS Re: Will Appear in Sequel |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2017/12/01/xenoblade-chronicles-2-kos-mos-re-will-appear-in-sequel |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=IGN |language=en}}
  • HK-47 from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, part of the Star Wars expanded universe
  • Dog from Half-Life 2
  • Robot enemies from Journey to Silius (Raf World)
  • Chibi-Robo, a tiny robot housekeeper that is the main playable character in the game of the same name
  • Mike, a "karaoke robot" from WarioWare: Touched!; its creator, Dr. Crygor used him as a janitor
  • Several Protoss units from StarCraft are robotic.
  • The various classes of Forerunner Sentinels from Halo
  • Wheatley from Portal 2
  • Frobot from the eponymous Wii game
  • Aigis and Metis from Persona 3; also Labrys from Persona 4 Arena
  • EDI (an artificial intelligence operating an android formerly named Dr. Eva), Harbinger, Sovereign, the Reapers, and the Geth, including Legion, from the Mass Effect series
  • The Servo series of domestic robots from The Sims: Livin' Large, The Sims 2: Open for Business and The Sims 4: Discover University. They make a cameo appearance as a statue within the science facility in The Sims 3, and have been made available in that game by fan creators.{{Cite web|title=ModTheSims – Servo from The Sims 2|url=https://modthesims.info/d/391993/servo-from-the-sims-2.html|access-date=2021-02-08|website=Mod The Sims}}{{Cite web|title=ModTheSims – Servo – Complete Conversion|url=https://modthesims.info/d/630303/servo-complete-conversion.html|access-date=2021-02-08|website=Mod The Sims}}
  • The Mr. Handy, Mr. Gutsy, Sentry Bot, Assaultron, Eyebot and Securitron robots from the Fallout series.
  • Amy Amania and Roscoe the Space Dog are rumored to be androids, from the Space Channel 5 series.{{Cite web|title=Space Channel 5 Part #2 – Space Channel 5 Profiles – Courtesy of Evila!|url=https://lparchive.org/Space-Channel-5/Update%202/|access-date=2021-11-18|website=lparchive.org}}{{Cite web|title=Space Channel 5 Part #3 – Space Channel 5 Part 2 Profiles|url=https://lparchive.org/Space-Channel-5/Update%203/|access-date=2021-11-18|website=lparchive.org}}

See also

Notes

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