Robots In Television

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

* ''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. 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

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.
* A robot chess-player in '' Moxon's Master'' by Ambrose Bierce (first published in the ''San Francisco Examiner'' on 16 Aug. 1899)

Early 1900s

* The "Metal Men" automata designed by a Thomas Edison-like scientist in Gustave Le Rouge's ''La Conspiration des Milliardaires'' and two sequels (1899–1903).
* Tik-Tok and Iron giant from L. Frank Baum's ''Ozma of Oz'' (1907). The movie ''Return to Oz'' was largely based on ''Ozma of Oz''.

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

* The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. It was reprinted in five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: ''The Planet of the Double Sun'', ''The Sunless World'', ''Space War'', ''Twin Worlds'' and ''Doomsday on Ajiat''.
* Zat the Martian robot, protagonist of John Wyndham's short story "The Lost Machine" (1932)
* Human cyborgs in ''Revolt of the Pedestrians'' by David H. Keller (1932)
* Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent (1934)
* "Helen O'Loy" from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
* Adam Link of ''I, Robot'' by Eando Binder (1938)
* Robots discover their "roots" in ''Robots Return'' by Robert Moore Williams (1938).
* Robot as murder witness in '' True Confession'' by F. Orlin Tremaine (1939)

1940s

* Gnut in "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates (1940), later made into the classic 1951 science fiction film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still''
* Unnamed "living plastic" robot in " Vault of the Beast" (1940), short story by A. E. van Vogt
* Jay Score ("J20"), emergency pilot of the Earth-to-Venus freighter ''Upskadaska City'' (colloquially called "Upsydaisy") in "Jay Score", a short story by Eric Frank Russell in the May 1941 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' (1941)
* Jenkins in ''City'' by Clifford D. Simak (1944)
* Alojzy Kukuryk in '' Akademia pana Kleksa'' by Jan Brzechwa:
** 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'' (1983) and subsequent novels
** Andrew Martin from ''The Bicentennial Man'' (1976) (later made into a film) and '' The Positronic Man'' (a novel), co-written by Asimov and Robert Silverberg
** Norby in a series of books for children and adolescents, co-written with Janet Asimov
*The Humanoids from a novelette (1947) and two novels (1949 and 1980) by Jack Williamson

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, i
"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 collectio
"City" by Clifford Simak
Humans entered "the sleep", or had their bodies converted to Jovian lifeforms to live on Jupiter.

1970s

* Personoids, in Stanisław Lem's book ''Próżnia Doskonała'' (1971). This is a collection of book reviews of nonexistent books, and was translated into English by Michael Kandel as ''A Perfect Vacuum'' (1983). "Personoids do not need any human-like physical body; they are rather an abstraction of functions of human mind, they live in computers."
* ''The Stepford Wives'' (1972) by Ira Levin – "The masculine plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas"
* Setaur, Aniel and Terminus in '' Tales of Pirx the Pilot'' by Stanisław Lem (1973)
* The Hangman in '' Home Is the Hangman'' by Roger Zelazny (1975), winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novella
* Andrew Martin from ''The Bicentennial Man'' (1976) by Isaac Asimov, and '' The Positronic Man'' (1992) by Asimov and Robert Silverberg
* Numerous droids from the ''Star Wars'' franchise novels (since 1977 for the main canon, 1976 for the Expanded Universe)
* Marvin the Paranoid Android in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (1979) by Douglas Adams and subsequent novels based on the original radio series

1980s

* Chip, the robot teenager in the '' Not Quite Human'' series (1985–1986) by Seth McEvoy. Disney later made the book into three movies.
* ''Roderick (novel), Roderick'' (1980) and ''Tik-Tok (novel), Tik-Tok'' (1983) by John Sladek, two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent and one perfectly criminal
* The Boppers, a race of Moon-based robots that achieve independence from humanity, in the series of books The ''Ware Tetralogy'' by Rudy Rucker
* R. Giskard Reventlov from '' The Robots of Dawn'' (1983) and subsequent novels by Isaac Asimov
* Elio, a character from ''A Tale of Time City'' (1987) by Diana Wynne Jones
* Manders in ''The Type One Super Robot'' (1987), a children's book by Alison Prince
* Solo from Robert Mason (writer), Robert Mason's novels ''Weapon (novel), Weapon'' (1989) and ''Solo (Mason novel), Solo'' (1993) (Note, the 1996 film titled ''Solo (1996 film), Solo'' is based solely on the first novel, ''Weapon''.)
* Sheen, a female android mysteriously programmed to guard and love Stile, a serf on the planet Proton, in the sci-fi/fantasy series ''Apprentice Adept'' (1980–82) by Piers Anthony.
* Spofforth, the dean of New York University in ''Mockingbird (Tevis novel), Mockingbird'' by Walter Tevis.

1990s

* Yod in Marge Piercy's ''He, She and It'' (1991)
* The One Who Waits in Charles Sheffield's ''Divergence (novel), Divergence'' (1991)
* Caliban in a Roger McBride Allen#Caliban, trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen, set in the robots universe of Isaac Asimov (1993)
* Solo and Nimrod in Robert Mason (writer), Robert Mason's novel ''Solo (Mason novel), Solo'' (1993)
* 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 (novel), Feet of Clay'' (1996) and subsequent ''Discworld'' novels

2000s

* Cassandra Kresnov, in a series by Joel Shepherd (2001)
* Clunk, in a series by Simon Haynes (2004)
* Moravec (robot), Moravecs, sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' ''Ilium (novel), Ilium'' (2003)
* List of FLCL characters#Canti, Canti, one of the robots built by Medical Mechanica in ''FLCL'' (2003)
* Nimue Alban/Merlin Athrawes, in the ''Safehold, Safehold series'' by David Weber (2007)
* Otis, the robot dog from Tanith Lee's ''Indigara'' (2007)
* Freya, in Charles Stross' ''Saturn's Children (Stross novel), Saturn's Children'' (2008)
* HCR-328 and Tom in ''Automatic Lover'' and ''Automatic Lover – Ten Years On'' by Ariadne Tampion (2008)
* Boilerplate (robot), Boilerplate, a Victorian-era robot in the illustrated coffee-table book ''Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel'', published by Abrams (2009)

2010s

* Adam, one of the first commercially available androids in Ian McEwan's ''Machines Like Me'' (2019)
* The Calculators, an ancient, ongoing family of androids in Paul Levinson's ''Robinson Calculator'' novelette (2019)
*Murderbot, a newly independent security robot in ''The Murderbot Diaries'' series by Martha Wells (2017-)

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

* Marvin the Paranoid Android in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' BBC radio series (1978–1980)
* Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's ''Earthsearch'' BBC radio series (1980–1981)
* Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the BBC radio series ''Nineteen Ninety-Four'' (1985)

Music

* "Max Mainspring, the Mechanical Man", a former grandfather clock brought to life in a 1950 children's record by Ray Bolger.
* "Robot Man (song), Robot Man", subject of a 1960 single by Connie Francis
* "Automatic Lover", robot featured in a 1978 disco track and music video by Dee D. Jackson, covered later that year by Sylvia Robinson, Sylvia.
* The Martian tripodal Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds), Killing Machines with heat rays in ''Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds'' (1978).
* Marvin, the Paranoid Android, released two singles in 1981, voiced by Stephen Moore (actor), Stephen Moore from the BBC radio and TV productions of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''.
* "Automatic Man (song), Automatic Man", titular character of the 1983 song by Michael Sembello.
* "Mr. Roboto", the prison robot in the eponymous song from the rock opera ''Kilroy Was Here (album), Kilroy Was Here'' by Styx (band), Styx (1983).
* Topo (robot), Topo, robot mascot of Topo & Roby, an Italo disco act, which charted in Europe in 1984 with "Under the Ice".
* "Electric Barbarella", a sexbot appearing in the music video for the 1997 track by Duran Duran.
* Pink Robots battled in The Flaming Lips' ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' and its Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1, title single (2002).
* "Rapbot", a robot built for Hip hop music, rapping, but with various other functions, including a toaster, from ''Fake Songs'' by Liam Lynch (musician), Liam Lynch (2003).
* "Half Man Half Machine" from Goldie Lookin' Chain's 2004 single.
* Cindi Mayweather, the protagonist from the "Metropolis" Concept Album, concept series by Janelle Monáe (2007).
* Cyborg Noodle, the cyborg clone of Noodle from the virtual band Gorillaz who was created for the storyline of their album ''Plastic Beach'' (2010).
* "Selfmachine", titular character from the opening track of I Blame Coco's 2010 album ''The Constant (I Blame Coco album), The Constant''.
* Rovix, K-pop group VIXX's robotic mascot (2012).

Film

Pre-1950

* The Mechanical Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in ''A Clever Dummy'', a Mack Sennett, Sennett silent film, silent Short film, short dating from 1917 when the term "robot" did not yet exist. The dummy does not operate independently but performs limited movements when wired to a control box.
* The Automaton, a weaponized robot in ''The Master Mystery'', a 1918 theatrical serial film starring Harry Houdini, featuring a fully realized mechanical man (implemented as a costumed actor)
* ''The Mechanical Man'', one of two robots from the Italian silent film of the same name, directed by André Deed (1921)
* ''The Mechanical Horse'', from a now-lost 1922 animated ''Aesop's Fables (film series), Aesop's Fable''
* Maria/Futura, the Maschinenmensch, a robotics, robotic gynoid, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic-appearing and human-appearing forms in ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'', the silent film, silent science fiction film by famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang (1927)
* ''The Mechanical Cow'' (1927), cartoon companion of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
* ''The Iron Man (1930 film), The Iron Man'' (1930), a robot man delivered to Farmer Al Falfa.
* Mechanical Racehorse built by Bosko in ''Ups 'n Downs'' (1931)
* ''Mechanical Man (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit), Mechanical Man'' (1932), a robot opponent of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
* ''The Robot'', constructed from an automobile by Bimbo (Fleischer), Bimbo to win a boxing match, in this 1932 ''Talkartoon''.
* ''Bosko's Mechanical Man'' (1933), a robot constructed by Bosko to perform household chores.
* Mechanical Farm Hands designed to perform farm chores in the 1933 Scrappy cartoon ''Technoracket''.
* The Mechanical Man, a robot built by Flip the Frog to perform chores in ''Techno-Cracked'' (1933)
* ''Mickey's Mechanical Man'' (1933), a robot boxer invented by Mickey Mouse.
* The Juggernaut, a 7 foot tall robot programmed to be an assassin in the film serial ''The Vanishing Shadow'' (1934)
* Arbeitsmaschine and Kampfmaschine, working robots and fighting robots in the German movie ''Master of the World (1934 film), Der Herr der Welt'' (1934) by Harry Piel; the mad scientist Professor Wolf (Walter Franck) is eventually killed by his fighting robot
* Black Beauty, a mechanical racehorse in the 1935 ''Happy Harmonies'' short ''The Old Plantation''
* Muranian Robots in ''The Phantom Empire'' (1935), a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combining the Western, musical and fantasy genres.
* ''The Tin Man (1935 film), The Tin Man'' (1935), voiced by Billy Bletcher ("My name is robot!") from the Hal Roach, Roach comedy short of the same name featuring Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly
* Jim Ripple's Robots in ''Loss of Sensation'' (1935), a film centering around a man who invents inexhaustible robots to replace humans working in factories
* Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the ''Flash Gordon (serial), Flash Gordon'' film series (1936)
* Volkites, robotic henchmen of the Atlantean tyrant Unga Khan in ''Undersea Kingdom'' (1936)
* ''The Mechanical Cow'' (1937), invented by Farmer Al Falfa after his dairy cows go on strike
* ''The Mechanical Handy Man'' (1937), a rooster-like robot designed by Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to perform chores
* Robot Butler and other robots confounding Donald Duck in ''Modern Inventions'' (1937)
* The New 1938 Creamlined Cow, mechanical dairy cow in the 1938 ''Looney Tunes'' short "Porky's Poppa"
* Robot Auto Mechanics in the 1938 Krazy Kat short ''The Auto Clinic''
* World's Fair Robots in ''All's Fair at the Fair'' (1938)
* Iron Man, an 8 foot tall robot created by Dr. Alex Zorka in ''The Phantom Creeps'' (1939)
* Robot Sweeper and other robots in an "all electric model home" in the ''Looney Tunes'' short ''Dog Gone Modern'' (1939)
* ''Man of Tin'' (1940), a robotic wrestler invented by Scrappy and a mad scientist
* Steel "Killer" Robot in director William Witney's early 1940s film serial of 15 episodes ''Mysterious Doctor Satan'' (a.k.a. ''Doctor Satan's Robot'') (1940, re-released in full-length 1966)
* ''The Mechanical Monsters'' in the Superman short of the same name (1941)
* ''The Monster and the Ape'' features the "Metalagon Man" a stolen robot (1945)

1950s

* Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), Gort, the robot in the film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951) (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)
* Mark 1 in ''Mother Riley Meets the Vampire'' (1952)
* Mechano, the robotic cat programmed to kill or banish mice from houses, from the 1952 episode "Push-Button Kitty" of Tom and Jerry.
* Ro-Man Extension XJ-2, a gorilla-bodied robot bent on destroying Earth, in the movie ''Robot Monster'' (1952)
* Robot Pest Control purchased by Elmer Fudd to catch Bugs Bunny in ''Robot Rabbit'' (1953)
* ''The Twonky'' (1953)
* Gog and Magog in ''Gog (film), Gog'' (1954)
* Nyah's robot, Chani, in the British film ''Devil Girl from Mars'' (1954)
* Tobor, a robot created to replace astronauts in space in the film ''Tobor the Great'' (1954)
* Venusians, Venusian robots invading Earth in ''Target Earth (film), Target Earth'' (1954)
* Robby the Robot in ''Forbidden Planet'' (1956) and ''The Invisible Boy'' (1957)
* ''Kronos (film), Kronos'' (1957)
* Moguera, a large, mole-like robot in ''The Mysterians'' (1957) and several subsequent Japanese films
* Colossus in ''The Colossus of New York'' (1958)
* The Human Robot in ''The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy'' (1958)

1960s

* Omega in ''First Spaceship on Venus'' (1960)
* Robot ZX29B, the Demolition Squad, and other robots sent by Yosemite Sam of Outer Space to capture Bugs Bunny in the ''Merrie Melodies'' short ''Lighter Than Hare'' (1960)
* Neptune Men, robotic aliens in ''Invasion of the Neptune Men'', starring a young Sonny Chiba (1961)
* Robot John in ''Planet of Storms'' (1962), ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'' (1965) and ''Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women'' (1968)
*The Humanoids (or "Clickers") in ''The Creation of the Humanoids'' (1962)
* Talos in ''Jason and the Argonauts (1963 film), Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963)
* Alien robots invade Earth in ''The Earth Dies Screaming''. (1964)
* Robot Torg, Torg in ''Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'' (1964)
* Frank Saunders (a.k.a. "Frankenstein"), an android version of Frankenstein's monster in ''Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster'' (1965)
* Sexbots or Fembots, including Robot # 11 (Diane) in ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine'' (1965) and ''Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs'' (1966), both starring Vincent Price
* Cyborg Garth A7 in ''Cyborg 2087'' (1966)
*Robot Operator in ''The Terrornauts'' (1967)
* Mechani-Kong in ''King Kong Escapes'' (1967)
* Robot army in ''Superargo and the Faceless Giants'' (1968)

1970s

* The American defense computer Colossus that takes over the world in ''Colossus: The Forbin Project'' (1970)
* The all-robot police force in ''THX 1138'' (1971)
* Huey, Dewey and Louie, drones in ''Silent Running'' (1972) – notable as the first movie in which non-humanoid robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees
* Jet Jaguar in ''Godzilla vs. Megalon'' (1973)
* The Gunslinger (played by Yul Brynner) and other androids in ''Westworld (film), Westworld'' (1973) and ''Futureworld'' (1976)
* The robots in ''Sleeper (1973 film), Sleeper'' (1973)
* Mechagodzilla in various Godzilla (franchise), ''Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla'' (1974)
* ''The Stepford Wives'' (1975) – Joanna Eberhart and other women are being replaced with identical robots.
* Box in ''Logan's Run (1976 film), Logan's Run'' (1976)
* Necron-99, later called "Peace" from Ralph Bakshi's ''Wizards (film), Wizards'' (1977)
* Proteus IV from ''Demon Seed'' (1977), an AI computer developed by Alex Harris, that eventually rapes the scientist's wife to be immortal
* C-3PO, R2-D2 and all the droids from the ''Star Wars'' franchise (since 1977 for the main canon, 1976 for the Expanded Universe)
* Robot Overlord from the 1977 Italian film ''Cosmos: War of the Planets''
* Alien robot army threatens Earth in ''Starship Invasions''. (1977)
* Aliens' robot army invades Earth in the Italian film ''War of the Robots (film), War of the Robots''. (1978)
* Beba-2 in ''Message from Space'' (1978)
* Elle and the Giant Robot in ''Starcrash'' (1978)
* Sparks, Lomax and others from the 1979 Canadian film ''H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come''
* Ash (Alien), Ash in ''Alien (film), Alien'' (1979)
* Hermes, an android double of his creator, in ''Unidentified Flying Oddball'' (1979)
* ''C.H.O.M.P.S.'' (Canine HOMe Protection System), a robotic dog invented by his young owner (1979)
* Tilk, Tilly and others in the 1979 Italian film ''Star Odyssey''
* Ilia (Star Trek), Ilia probe, a gynoid double of the original Ilia in ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'' (1979)
* V.I.N.CENT (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), Maximillian and the androids made out of humans in ''The Black Hole (1979 film), The Black Hole'' (1979)

1980s

* Hector in ''Saturn 3'' (1980)
* ''Galaxina'' (1980), with Dorothy Stratten in the title role
*The giant robot from ''The King and the Mockingbird'' (1980) The 1952 version provides one of the earliest uses of the Giant Robot/Mecha in animation.
* Bubo, a mechanical owl in ''Clash of the Titans (1981 film), Clash of the Titans'' (1981)
* Robot in segment 'So Beautiful, So Dangerous', ''Heavy Metal (film), Heavy Metal'' (1981)
* Val, Aqua, Phil and others from ''Heartbeeps'' (1981)
* The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael, and possibly Rick Deckard in ''Blade Runner'' (1982) (the film version of ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'')
* The Recognizers, police robots in ''Tron'' (1982)
* Max 404 and Cassandra One in ''Android (film), Android'' (1982)
* Conal Cochran's androids who serve central antagonists/villains in ''Halloween III: Season of the Witch'', a non-Halloween (franchise), Halloween consecutive film
* Beta, an android left on Earth impersonating Alex Rogan while he is in space in ''The Last Starfighter'' (1984)
* Terminator (character), T-800, the robot assassin in ''The Terminator'' (1984)
* Robot Spiders and various other robots, maliciously reprogrammed to kill in ''Runaway (1984 film), Runaway'' (1984)
* ''D.A.R.Y.L.'' (Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform), a robot built to the government to look like a ten-year-old boy in the film ''D.A.R.Y.L.'' (1985)
* Tik-Tok in ''Return to Oz'' (1985)
* Sico, Paulie's robot in ''Rocky IV'' (1985)
* Spot in ''Eliminators (1986 film), Eliminators'' (1986)
* Killbots in ''Chopping Mall'' (1986)
* Johnny 5 and the other S-A-I-N-T (Strategic-Artificially-Intelligent-Nuclear-Transport) military robots in ''Short Circuit (1986 film), Short Circuit'' (1986) and ''Short Circuit 2'' (1988) and later ''Hot Cars, Cold Facts'' (1990)
* Jinx from the film ''SpaceCamp'' (1986)
* Bishop (Aliens), Bishop in ''Aliens (film), Aliens'' (1986)
* R.A.L.F. (Robotic Assistant Labor Facilitator) and MAX (TriMAXion Drone Ship) in ''Flight of the Navigator'' (1986)
* BB and Samantha in ''Deadly Friend'' (1986)
* Ulysses, an android in the film ''Making Mr. Right'' (1987)
* Chip in the '' Not Quite Human'' movie adaptions based on the books by Seth McEvoy (1987)
* Dot Matrix in ''Spaceballs'' (1987)
* Toaster and Kirby in ''The Brave Little Toaster'' film series (1987–1997)
* ED-209 in ''RoboCop (1987 film), RoboCop'' (1987)
* Data (Star Trek), Data, positronic brain android from ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–2002)
* ''R.O.T.O.R.'' (1987), the main antagonist of the movie of the same title
* The "fix-its" in ''*batteries not included'' (1987)
* Lore, Data's older brother ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1988–1990)
* ''Cherry 2000'' (1988), with Pamela Gidley in the title role
* Byron in ''Slipstream (1989 film), Slipstream'' (1989) with Mark Hamill, Bill Paxton, and Bob Peck as Byron

1990s

* Bill Moseley, Quinn and DV-8 from Crash and Burn (1990 film), Crash and Burn (1990)
* Lal, Data offspring ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1990)
* MARK13 in ''Hardware (film), Hardware'' (1990)
* The Enforcer Drone from the 1990 film ''Spaced Invaders''
* Johnny Cab from ''Total Recall (1990 film), Total Recall'' (1990)
* Pino Petto from ''Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker'' (1991)
* Terminator (character), T-800 and T-1000, model Terminators played respectively by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Robert Patrick in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991)
* The good and evil robotic doubles of Bill and Ted in ''Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey'' (1991)
* Newman in ''And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird'' (1991)
* Eve from ''Eve of Destruction (film), Eve of Destruction'' (1991)
* Mecha-King Ghidorah, a cyborg from ''Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah'' (1991)
* Mr. Static, The Robot from ''Demonic Toys (film series), Demonic Toys''
* Alsatia Zevo, the gynoid sister of Leslie Zevo and dollmaker in ''Toys (film), Toys'' (1992)
* Bishop (Aliens), Bishop in ''Alien 3'' (1992)
* Otomo, android ninjas from ''RoboCop 3'' (1993)
* The Sterilisation Units in ''A.P.E.X.'' (1994)
* J5 in ''Blankman'' (1994)
* Wallace's Techno Trousers in Nick Park's animated short ''Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers'' (1994)
* "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 (1995 film), Screamers'' (1995) based on the short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick
* Project 2501 in the movie adaptation of Masamune Shirow's ''Ghost in the Shell'' – Japanese manga anime describes AI surveillance of the population (1995)
* ''Evolver (film), Evolver'', villain from the 1995 film
* ''Solo (1996 film), Solo'' (1996), based on Robert Mason (writer), Robert Mason's 1989 novel ''Weapon (novel), Weapon''
* Call in ''Alien Resurrection'' (1997)
* The seductive Fembot assassins in ''Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery'' (1997) and in the rest of the Austin Powers series, ''Austin Powers'' series; in ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'' (1999), it is revealed that Vanessa Kensington is a fembot, and in ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (2002), Britney Spears plays herself as one.
* Weebo in ''Flubber (film), Flubber'' (1997)
* "Robot" in ''Lost in Space (film), Lost in Space'' (1998), a movie based on Lost in Space, the TV series
* Astor, an android played by Stacey Williams in ''Gangster World'' (1998)
* ''The Iron Giant'' (1999), a film version of the Ted Hughes children's novel ''The Iron Man (novel), The Iron Man''
* Andrew, played by Robin Williams and others, the robot servant in ''The Bicentennial Man'' (1999), based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
* The Sentinels from ''The Matrix'' (1999)
* Battle Droids from ''Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' to ''Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith''
* RoboGadget in ''Inspector Gadget (film), Inspector Gadget'' (1999)

2000s

* AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion), the robot scout in the film ''Red Planet (film), Red Planet'' (2000) who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship
* Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot pet dog in ''Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'' (2001)
* Tima, a female android robot in the anime film ''Metropolis (2001 film), Metropolis'' (2001)
* SIMON, from ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001)
* Many robots, including David, the lead character, in ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence'' (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"
* Kay-Em 14, female android in the tenth installment of the ''Friday the 13th (franchise), Friday the 13th'' franchise, ''Jason X'' (2002)
* Spyder robots, used by the Pre-crime, PreCrime police force to locate and identify "perpetrators" in ''Minority Report (film), Minority Report'' (2002)
* Bruno from ''The Adventures of Pluto Nash'' (2002)
* ''S1M0NE'' (derived from SIMulation ONE), title character played by Rachel Roberts (model), Rachel Roberts and starring Al Pacino (2002)
* Bio-Electronic Navigator a.k.a. Ben Gunn (Treasure Island), B.E.N., an absent-minded robot from Disney's 2002 film ''Treasure Planet''
* B-4 (Star Trek), B-4, Data's and Lore's older brother in ''Star Trek: Nemesis'' (2002)
* US 47 in the 2002 Kannada cinema, Kannada language film ''Hollywood (2002 film), Hollywood''
* R4-P17 and the Droid Army in ''Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002) and ''Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith'' (2005)
* Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator (character), T-850 Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminatrix in ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' (2003)
* G2 from ''Inspector Gadget 2'' (2003)
* The robot butler B166ER and the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One in the film shorts "The Animatrix#The Second Renaissance Part I, The Second Renaissance Part I" and "The Animatrix#The Second Renaissance Part II, The Second Renaissance Part II" from ''The Animatrix'' (2003)
* The Sentinels from the Matrix trilogy, ''Matrix'' series (1999–2003)
* The robot from ''Zathura: A Space Adventure'' (2005)
* The "dolls", including Ria, in ''Natural City'' (2003)
* R.A.L.P.H. in ''Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams'' (2002)
* Sonny (Type NS-5) and many others in ''I, Robot (film), I, Robot'' (2004)
* Omnidroid, a series of intelligent and destructive robots developed by Syndrome Character, Syndrome to fight and kill Superhero, "Supers" in ''The Incredibles'' (2004)
* The monstrous robot dog in ''Rottweiler (film), Rottweiler'' (2004)
* The great spirit Mata Nui, god robot from the List of Bionicle media#Films, ''Bionicle'' franchise; and the Vahki, the robot police enforcers in ''Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui'' (2004)
* The Totenkopf Gatekeeper Robot, Totenkopf Guard Robots, unnamed giant robots and flying robots in ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow'' (film) (2004)
* The entire cast of ''Robots (2005 film), Robots'' (2005)
* Marvin the Paranoid Android in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (2005)
* "EDI" (Extreme Deep Invader") from ''Stealth (film), Stealth'' (2005)
* ''Transmorphers'', title characters from the 2007 direct-to-DVD film
* DOR-15 and Carl in ''Meet the Robinsons'' (2007)
* Iron Avengers from ''Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow'' (2007)
* Billybot and Mandroid from the 2007 Cartoon Network film ''Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure''.
* Giddy from ''Battle for Terra'' (2007)
* ''RoboDoc'' (MD 63) from the 2008 ''National Lampoon Inc, National Lampoon'' film of the same name
* WALL-E, EVE, M-O, GO-4, SECUR-T, PR-T, BURN-E, WALL-A and all other robot characters from the 2008 film ''WALL-E'' and the 2008 short film, short ''BURN-E''
* Gort, the robot in the film ''The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film), The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (2008), remake of ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (1951)
* "The Golden Army", robot horde from ''Hellboy II: The Golden Army'' (2008)
* The robot ninjas from ''Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword'' (2008)
* Robot Probes from ''Monsters vs. Aliens'' (2009)
* ''Astro Boy (film), Astro Boy'' and other robot characters from the 2009 film of the same name
* Several characters in ''Terminator Salvation'' (2009) including Marcus Wright, the T-800, several T-600's, The Motor-Terminators and The Harvester
* GERTY 3000 from the 2009 film ''Moon (2009 film), Moon''
* The Stitchpunks and others from the animated film ''9 (2009 animated film), 9'' (2009)
* Robo from ''Super Capers'' (2009)

2010s

* Android, Robot gladiator in ''Planet Hulk'' (2010)
* Brainbots, Megamind's robotic jellyfish assistants in ''Megamind'' (2010)
* Chitti, a humanoid robot played by Rajinikanth, built to obey the three laws of Asimov, turns evil in ''Enthiran'' (2010)
* Paws, Kitty Galore's robotic Maine Coon in ''Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore'' (2010)
* Candy Droober, Franklin Droober, Maureen Droober and Trace Mayter in ''Android Re-Enactment'' (2011)
* Atom, and Many characters from the film ''Real Steel'' (2011)
* Max, a robotic butler played by Lluís Homar, Gris, a free-thinking robotic cat, tiny robot horses and SI-9 in ''Eva (2011 film), Eva'' (2011)
* '80s Robot in ''The Muppets (2011 film), The Muppets'' (2011)
* Robot 7, from ''All-Star Superman (film), All-Star Superman'' (2011)
* David 8 and Walter One, androids played by Michael Fassbender in ''Prometheus (2012 film), Prometheus'' (2012) and ''Alien: Covenant'' (2017)
* Tet, a tetrahedron in Earth's orbit that enslaved the human population, and cloned workers to maintain drones that keep humans from using the generators in ''Oblivion (2013 film), Oblivion'' (2013)
* MecWilly, in the pub scene in the Italian film ' (2013)
* Jaegers, man-made, 250-ft war machines built to fight giant monsters called kaiju, who emerge from a portal in the Pacific Ocean to attack humanity, in ''Pacific Rim (film), Pacific Rim'' (2013)
* Dr. Wallace Damon, chief of a research group of investigation about UFOs from ''The Signal (2014 film), The Signal'' (2014)
* Sheriff Not-a-Robot, a robotic sheriff from the Old West and the Micro Managers, Lord Business' henchmen in ''The Lego Movie'' (2014)
* Baymax, an inflatable healthcare companion robot in ''Big Hero 6 (film), Big Hero 6'' (2014)
* TARS and CASE, adaptable rectangle robots in ''Interstellar (film), Interstellar'' (2014)
* Ultron (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Ultron, an evil robot portrayed by James Spader, and the Vision (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Vision, an android portrayed by Paul Bettany, in ''Avengers: Age of Ultron'' (2015)
* Ava and Kyoko the androids in ''Ex Machina (film), Ex Machina'' (2015)
* Athena, the audio-animatronic droid recruiter in ''Tomorrowland (film), Tomorrowland'' (2015)
* Intergalactic Advocate Bob, the assistance android that guides Jupiter Jones through the bureaucratic process in ''Jupiter Ascending (film), Jupiter Ascending'' (2015)
* Terminator (character), T-800, the robot protector in ''Terminator Genisys'' (2015)
* ''Chappie (film), CHAPPiE'', the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself, from the movie of the same name (2015)
* MOOSE and the Scouts in ''CHAPPiE''
* Rob-Monkey, Gorilla Grodd's minions from ''Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League: Attack of the Legion of Doom'' (2015)
* BB-8, an astromech droid in ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015)
* Arthur, an android bartender portrayed by Michael Sheen in ''Passengers (2016 film), Passengers'' (2016)
* Kit, Okra, OX King, Victor and Wilmer in ''Bling (film), Bling'' (2016)
* K-2SO, a Rebel-owned Imperial enforcer droid in ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016)
*Morgan, a female humanoid from Morgan (2016 film), Morgan (2016)
* S.A.R.-003, During the battle, Mills discovers an advanced S.A.R. (Study Analyze Reprogram), in ''Kill Command'' (2016)
* Bennie and Jet, robot dogs in ''Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' (2017)
* K, Luv, Freysa, Sapper Morton and Mariette, replicants in ''Blade Runner 2049'' (2017)
* 7723, a weaponized robot in ''Next Gen (film), Next Gen'' (2018)
* A.X.L., a robotic dog in ''A.X.L.'' (2018)
* Cybots and the Robo-Clowns, the Joker (character), Joker's minions from ''Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash'' (2018)
* Nimani in ''A.I. Rising'' (2018)
* L3-37, played by Phoebe Waller-Bridge in ''Solo: A Star Wars Story'' (2018)
* Chucky (character), Chucky, killer robot doll in ''Child's Play (2019 film), Child's Play'' (2019)
* Foodio, a robot built to end world hunger in ''Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus'' (2019)
* Terminator (character), T-800, the robot protector in ''Terminator: Dark Fate'' (2019)
* AUTO, in ''Automation'' (2019)

2020s

* Mechagodzilla from ''Godzilla vs. Kong'' (2021)
* Sox, a robotic cat from Pixar's ''Lightyear (film), Lightyear'' (2022)
* M3GAN, an android companion created for the main character of the film ''M3GAN'' (2023)
* ROZZUM unit 7134 ("Roz"), the main character of DreamWorks' ''The Wild Robot'' (2024)

Television films and series

1960s and earlier

* In ''The Thin Man (TV series), The Thin Man'' (1957–1959):
** Robby (Robby the Robot), a robot accused of murder in the episode "Robot Client" (1958)
* In ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'' (1961–1962):
** The Robot Simon (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Uncle Simon" (1963)
** Mr. Whipple's robot replacement (Robby the Robot) in the episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (1963)
* Rosie the Robot Maid, Rosie the Maid, Mac and UniBlab in ''The Jetsons'' (1962)
* In ''Hazel (TV series), Hazel'' (1961–1966):
** A robot maid (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Rosie's Contract" (1962)
* In ''Doctor Who'' (Seasons One to Six) (1963–1969) (see also List of Doctor Who robots):
** The List of Doctor Who robots#Mechanoid, Mechonoids, robot enemies of the Daleks in the serial ''The Chase (Doctor Who), The Chase'' (1965)
** The Chumblies in the serial ''Galaxy 4'' (1965)
* ''Astro Boy (1960s), Astro Boy'' in the Japanese animated series (1963–1966)
* ''Gigantor'' (1963–1966), Japanese animated TV series about the giant titular robot.
* In ''Lost in Space'' (1965–1968):
** Robot B-9 (a.k.a. The Robot), Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot assigned to the space craft ''Jupiter 2''
** The Robotoid (Robby the Robot) in the episode "War of the Robots" (1966)
** The robot prison guard (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Condemned of Space" (1967)
* In ''The Addams Family'' (1964–1966):
** Smiley the Robot (Robby the Robot) in the episode "Lurch's Little Helper" (1966)
* Mildred the Maid (Robby the Robot) in ''The Banana Splits Adventure Hour'' (1968–1970)
* ''Slim John'', rebel robot in the BBC series (1969)

1970s

* In ''Doctor Who'' (Seasons 7 to 17) (1970–1980):
** K9 (Doctor Who), 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 (Doctor Who), The Invisible Enemy'' (1977)
* Numerous android characters in the Japanese superhero series ''Kikaider'' (1972), including the title character
* In ''Columbo (TV series), 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 (anime), Haro in ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' (1979)
* P.O.P.S. (Robot B-9 modified) in ''Mystery Island'' (1977–78)
* In ''Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' (1978–1979):
** The Cylon (1978), Cylons, mechanical men created by a race of reptile-like creatures
** Lucifer (Battlestar Galactica), 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

* KARR (Knight Rider), KARR ('Knight Automated Roving Robot), an early prototype of KITT in ''Knight Rider (1982 TV series), Knight Rider'' (1982–1986)
* The B.A.T. (G.I. Joe), B.A.T.s (Battle Android Trooper) of the evil Cobra Organization in ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' series, first appeared in 1986
* Voltron of ''Voltron: Defender of the Universe'' (1984–1986)
* The synthoids from several episodes of the ''G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985 TV series), G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' series (1985)
* Conky 2000, robot who gives out the secret word in ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'' (1986–1991)
* T-Bob, a droid developed and owned by List of M.A.S.K. toys & characters, Scott Trakker, from the animated television series ''M.A.S.K. (franchise), M.A.S.K.'', closely resembling R2-D2, and perhaps even a direct successor as an adapted Tx-series Industrial Automaton astromech droid, as implied by the show's storyline.
* 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.
* Data (Star Trek), Data, Lore, The Offspring (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Lal (Data's daughter) and Juliana Tainer in the series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1987–1994, plus four movies)
* Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Gypsy and Cambot, created by and friends to Joel Hodgson and later Mike Nelson (character), Mike Nelson from ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (1988)
* Red Dwarf characters#, Talkie Toaster, Red Dwarf characters#, Kryten, the Red Dwarf characters#The Skutters, Skutters, the Simulants and many others from the series ''Red Dwarf'' (1988)

1990s

* Alpha 5 (Power Rangers), Alpha 5 from ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' (1993–1996) to ''Power Rangers Turbo''
* Megazords, giant robots from ''Power Rangers'' franchise (1993–present)
* Machine Empire from ''Power Rangers Zeo'' to ''Power Rangers in Space''
* Alpha 6 (Power Rangers), Alpha 6 from ''Power Rangers Turbo'' to ''Power Rangers Lost Galaxy'' and ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive''
* The many Evangelion (mecha), Evangelions, or EVAs, from the ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' series
* 790 (robot), 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''
* A number of robots appear in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series), Buffy the Vampire Slayer'', including:
** Buffybot, a sexbot made by Warren Mears for Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Spike, appears in various episodes
* Bender Bending Rodríguez, Bender the robot, as well as Flexo, Robot Santa, Kwanzaa-Bot, Calculon, Robot Devil, Clamps and other assorted robots including the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity robots in the animated series ''Futurama'' (1999)
* Melfina from ''Outlaw Star''
* Psycho Rangers from ''Power Rangers''
* Andromon and Guardromon in the ''Digimon'' anime series
* Coconuts and Scratch and Grounder from ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'': Doctor Eggman's robotic henchmen.
* Steel/Iron Clan, Coyote, and Coldfire/Coldstone from ''Gargoyles (TV series), Gargoyles''
* Valerie 23 and Mary 25 from ''The Outer Limits (1995 TV series), The Outer Limits''

2000s

*Alpha 7 (Power Rangers), Alpha 7 from ''Power Rangers Wild Force'' (2002)
*Chobits characters#Chi (Elda), Chii, the Persocom in the Japanese anime series ''Chobits'' (2002)
*Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future, Rabbot, Robositter and Sheila from ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' (2000–2015)
*''Daigunder'' in the Japanese anime series (2002)
*Frax and the Cyclobots from ''Power Rangers Time Force'' (2001)
*GIR (Invader Zim), GIR from ''Invader Zim'' (2001): A dysfunctional robot who is assigned to serve Zim during his invasion of Earth.
*Rommie, Gabriel/Balance of Judgement, Pax Magelanic, Doyle and various other warship AIs/avatars from ''Andromeda (TV series), Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'' (2001–2005)
*Infiltration Unit Zeta, Zeta from ''The Zeta Project'' (2001–2002): An android created by the government for espionage and infiltration. Due to a module secretly implanted by his creator, Eli Selig, Zeta abandons his mission and becomes a fugitive from the government and the NSA.
* Robot Jones from the TV show ''Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?'' (2002-2003): A robot who attends a human school in an attempt to understand humanity.
* Jenny Wakeman, Jenny Wakeman / XJ-9 from ''My Life as a Teenage Robot'' (2003): An android created by Nora Wakeman who defends Earth from evil while attempting to live a normal human life.
* R. Dorothy Wayneright in ''The Big O'' (2003)
* Karai (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Karaibots from ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (2003–2009)
* H.E.L.P.eR. (Humanoid Electric Lab Partner Rboot), G.U.A.R.D.O. and Huggy in ''The Venture Bros.'' (2003–present)
* The Tachikoma spider tanks from ''Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex'' (2004–2005)
* C.A.R.R from ''Stroker and Hoop'' (2004–2005)
* D.A.V.E. (Digitally Advanced Villain Emulator) from ''The Batman (TV series), The Batman'' (2004): A robot created by Hugo Strange that possesses the knowledge of various villains.
* Cylon (Battlestar Galactica), Cylons from ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' (2004)
** Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)#Centurions, Centurions
** Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)#Hybrids, Hybrids
** John Cavil, Number One (John Cavil)
** Leoben Conoy, Number Two (Leoben Conoy)
** D'anna Biers, Number Three (D'anna Biers)
** Number Four (Battlestar Galactica), Number Four (Simon)
** Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)#Number Five (Aaron Doral), Number Five (Aaron Doral)
** Number Six (Battlestar Galactica), Number Six (Caprica Six et al.)
** Cylon (Battlestar Galactica)#Number Seven (Daniel), Number Seven (Daniel)
** Number Eight (Battlestar Galactica), Number Eight (Sharon Valerii et al.)
** ''Final Five Cylons, The Final Five'':
*** Galen Tyrol
*** Tory Foster
*** Samuel Anders
*** Saul Tigh
*** Ellen Tigh
* Miyu Greer from the anime series ''My-HiME'' (2004–2005) and ''My-Otome'' (2005–2006)
* List of Trinity Blood characters#Tres Iques, Gunslinger from ''Trinity Blood'' (2005)
* Krybots, Power Rangers: S.P.D., R.I.C. 2.0 (Robotic Interactive Canine) and Power Rangers: S.P.D., S.O.P.H.I.E. (Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encriptor) from ''Power Rangers S.P.D.'' (2005)
* ''Robotboy'' (2005–2008)
* ''GR: Giant Robo'' (2007)
* Mackenzie Hartford from ''Power Rangers Operation Overdrive'' (2007)
* Tieria Erde, Ribbons Almark, Regene Regetta and the other Innovators (Mobile Suit Gundam 00), Innovators from the anime ''Mobile Suit Gundam 00'' (2007–2009)
* Cameron (Terminator), Cameron from ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'' (2008–2009)
* The Shredder, Cyber Shredder from ''TMNT: Back to the Sewer'' (2008–2010)

2010s

* Darkhawks from ''Guardians of the Galaxy (TV series), Guardians of the Galaxy''
* List of One Piece characters#Franky, Franky from ''One Piece''
* Pacifista, models List of One Piece characters#Bartholomew Kuma, PX-0, Bartholomew Kuma, PX-1 to PX-Z from ''One Piece''

Comics

Comic books/graphic novels

American

* Amazo (DC Comics): A power-replicating android created by Professor Ivo.
* 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.
* Brainiac (character), 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 (comics), Krypton.
* Brainiac 5 (DC Comics): Brainiac's 31st-century descendant and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
* Computo (character), Computo (DC Comics): An artificial intelligence created by Brainiac 5 who went rogue and became an enemy of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
* Doombot, Doombots (Marvel Comics): A group of robots who resemble Doctor Doom and often act in his stead.
* Dreadnought (comics), Dreadnought (Marvel Comics): A combat robot created by Hydra (comics), Hydra.
* G.I. Robot (DC Comics): The name of several robots who served as members of the US Army and Creature Commandos.
* 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.
* Hourman (android), 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.
* Human Torch (android), Human Torch (Marvel Comics): The first character known as Human Torch, he is an android who possesses pyrokinetic abilities.
* Jocasta (comics), 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 (comics), Avengers.
* Kelex (DC Comics): A robot who was originally Jor-El's assistant on Krypton (comics), Krypton. Following Krypton's destruction, Kelex is transported to Earth and becomes Superman's assistant in the Fortress of Solitude.
* 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.
* Little Helper (Disney comics): A small robot with a lightbulb-like head who serves Gyro Gearloose.
* Living Brain (Marvel Comics): A problem-solving robot who battled Spider-Man after malfunctioning. In "The Superior Spider-Man" storyline, Doctor Octopus, 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.
* Manmachine, from the ''Manmachine'' epic
* Machine Man (Marvel Comics): A robot created by the government who gained sentience and rebelled against his creators and the government.
* Machine Teen from Marvel Comics
* Manhunters (DC 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.
* Metal Men (DC Comics): A group of robots created by Will Magnus and named after elements of the periodic table.
* 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.
* Roboduck (Marvel Comics): A robotic, humanoid duck who gained sentience after being infected with nanobots.
* Sentinel (comics), Sentinels (Marvel Comics): A group of Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant-hunting robots created by Bolivar Trask.
* Skeets (DC Comics): A drone-like robot who is the companion of Booster Gold.
* Spider-Slayer, Spider-Slayers (Marvel Comics): A group of robots created by Spencer Smythe and J. Jonah Jameson to hunt Spider-Man.
* Technovore (Marvel Comics): An insectoid robot created by Stark Industries who can assimilate technology.
* 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.
* 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), 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

* The ABC Warriors from the comic ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'', includes Hammerstein (robot), Hammerstein
* Armoured Gideon from ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''
* Elektrobots in ''Reign of the Robots'', a Dan Dare story from the ''Eagle (comic), Eagle'' comic (1957)
* Mechanismo, a range of robo-Judge (2000 AD), Judges from ''Judge Dredd''
* Robo Machines (comics), Robo Machines
* Robot Archie in the UK comic ''Valiant (comic), Valiant'' who has appeared in ''Zenith (comic), Zenith'' and ''Albion (comics), Albion''

Other European

* Otomox, the self-proclaimed "Robot Master" by André Mavimus (writer) and Roger Roux (artist) (1943)
* 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

* Tonto (Metabarons), Tonto and Lothar from ''Metabarons, The Metabarons'' (1992–2003)

Manga (Japanese comics)

* ''Giant Robo'' in the manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1967–1968)
* ''Doraemon'' in the manga of the same name by Fujiko Fujio (1969)
* Arale Norimaki, the main character of ''Dr. Slump''; also Obotchaman (1980–1984)
* Sergeant Metallic, Android 8, Android 16 (Dragon Ball), Android 16, Android 17, Android 18, and Android 19, all created by Dr. Gero (Android 20) from ''Dragon Ball'' (1984–1995)
* Banpei and Sigel (anime), Sigel in ''Oh My Goddess!'' by Kōsuke Fujishima (1988–present)
* Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's ''Ghost in the Shell'', a Japanese manga that describes an espionage Artificial intelligence, AI that achieves sentience (1991)
* Chi (Chobits), Chi and other Persocoms from the manga ''Chobits'' (2001–2002)
* Chachamaru Karakuri, plus other robots in the manga ''Negima'' by Ken Akamatsu (2003–2012)

Comic strips

* ''Monty (comic strip), 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 PvP#Characters, Ottobot, a robot duplicate of the character Francis Ray Ottoman featured in ''PvP''
* Ping, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from Fred Gallagher (cartoonist), Fred Gallagher's ''Megatokyo''

Web-based media

* Stella 4D, a.k.a. Manager 45, on ''GO Moonbase''; first appears in episode 26

Animated shorts/series

* The Robot, a contestant in the Strongest Man in the World Contest, from ''Homestar Runner''.
* The Visor Robot, a futuristic robot with a visor, from ''Homestar Runner''
* The Grape-Nuts Robot, created by List of Homestar Runner characters#Bubs, Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from ''Homestar Runner''
* Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's ''My God, Robots!''

Machinima

* List of characters in Red vs. Blue#Lopez, Lopez, Church (Red vs. Blue), Church and Tex (Red vs. Blue), 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".
*The Spill.com#List of critics, Co-Host 3000 (later Sidekick 3000), character from the ''Spill.com, Spill'' and ''Double Toasted'' podcasts, voiced by Tony Guerrero.

Computer and video games

*Aris Tendou, a student of Millennium Science School and club member of the Game Development Department from Blue Archive.
*Bastion (Overwatch), Bastion, Orisa (Overwatch), Orisa, Zenyatta, Tekhartha Mondatta and various omnics from ''Characters of Overwatch, Overwatch''
* GLaDOS (''Portal (video game series), Portal''): An artificial intelligence that maintains the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center.
* Claptrap, from the ''Borderlands (series), Borderlands'' series
* The distinct robots in the original ''Mega Man (original series), Mega Man'' series, including Mega Man (character), Mega Man, Proto Man, and the Robot Masters.
* The Metal Gear (weapon), Metal Gears from the ''Metal Gear (series), Metal Gear'' series
* K1-B0 (nicknamed Keebo) from ''Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony''
* Monokuma, the main antagonist of the ''Danganronpa'' franchise.
* 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 (Sonic the Hedgehog), 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
* Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club!), 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 X (Mega Man), Mega Man X, the successor to the original Mega Man and the original basis for most Reploid's designs, and Zero (Mega Man), Zero, X's partner and the only Reploid not based on X.
* ''Shamus (computer game), Shamus''
* Cyber Sub-Zero, Cyrax, Sektor and Smoke (Mortal Kombat character), Smoke from the ''Mortal Kombat (series), Mortal Kombat'' series
* Robo (Chrono Trigger), Robo (serial number R-66Y) from ''Chrono Trigger''
* The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in ''X-COM: UFO Defense''
* Alisa Bosconovitch, Combot, Jack (Tekken), Jacks and NANCY-MI847J from the ''Tekken'' series
* Cait Sith (Final Fantasy), 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''
* The Servbots from ''Mega Man Legends''
* The Robo-Kys from the ''Guilty Gear'' series
* Cortana (Halo), Cortana, 343 Guilty Spark and 2401 Penitent Tangent, from the ''Halo (series), Halo'' series
* Clank (Ratchet & Clank), Clank, Doctor Nefarious, and countless others in the ''Ratchet & Clank (series), Ratchet & Clank'' series
* KOS-MOS, MOMO (Xenosaga), MOMO and the Realians from the ''Xenosaga'' trilogy
* HK-47 from ''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (video game), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic'', part of the Star Wars expanded universe, ''Star Wars'' expanded universe
* Dog (Half-Life 2), 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 (WarioWare), 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 (Halo), Forerunner Sentinels from ''Halo (series), Halo''
* Wheatley (Portal), Wheatley from ''Portal 2''
* ''Frobot'' from the eponymous Wii game
* The Androids from Detroit: Become Human
* Aigis (Persona), Aigis and List of Persona 3 characters#Metis, Metis from ''Persona 3''; also List of Persona 4 characters#Labrys, Labrys from ''Persona 4 Arena''
* EDI (Mass Effect), EDI (an artificial intelligence operating an android formerly named Dr. Eva), Characters of the Mass Effect universe#Harbinger, Harbinger, Sovereign, the Reapers, and the Geth, including Characters of the Mass Effect universe#Legion, Legion, from the ''Mass effect, 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.
*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.

See also

* List of fictional computers
* List of fictional cyborgs
* List of fictional gynoids
* List of fictional military robots
* List of robots
* Android (robot), Android
* Gynoid
* Mecha
* Robot
* Robotic police officer
* Artificial intelligence in fiction

Notes

External links

AMC Filmsite – Robots in Film
– A Complete Illustrated History of Robots in the Movies

Robots in Movies
– over 600 movies with robots, androids, cyborgs and AI

Robots on TV
– over 300 TV series with robots, androids, cyborgs and AI


– with fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2



Analysis of the greatest evil robots in fiction
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Mr ZED The Robot Comedian, David Kirk Taylor

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