List of fictional robots and androids

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This List of fictional robots and androids is a chronological list, catagorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema. It is intended for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a humanlike or mobile form. It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history.

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

Contents 1 Theatre 2 Literature 3 Film 3.1 1930s and earlier 3.2 1950s 3.3 1960s 3.4 1970s 3.5 1980s 3.6 1990s 3.7 2000s 4 Television films and series 4.1 1960s and earlier 4.2 1970s 4.3 1980s 4.4 1990s 4.5 2000s 5 Comics/Graphic Novels 5.1 Comic Books 6 Web based media 6.1 Animated Shorts/Series 6.1.1 Flash 6.2 Web Comics 7 Computer and video games 8 Unsorted works 9 See also 10 External links

Theatre

See also mechanical automata produced for entertainment in the eighteenth century.

• Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870).
• The word "robot" comes from Karel Capek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New York 1922; English edition published 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms [1]. Named robots in the play are: Marius; Sulla; Radius; Primus and Helena.

Literature

See also Robots in literature

• Maidens made of gold, Bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer (circa 800 BC)
• The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
• The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, mentioned in the Talmud. (16th century)
• Olimpia in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
• A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
• A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
• Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books (1900-)
• A robot chess-player in "Moxon's Master" by Ambrose Bierce (1909)
• The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. Reprinted in five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: The Planet of the Double Sun, The Sunless World, Space War, Twin Worlds and Doomsday on Ajiat
• The Martian robot in The Lost Machine by John Wyndham (1932)
• Human cyborgs in Revolt of the Pedestrians by David H. Keller (1932)
• Robot surgeon in "Rex" by Harl Vincent (1934)
• Helen O'Loy, from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
• Adam Link of I, Robot by Eando Binder (1938)
• Robots discover their "roots" in Robots Return by Robert Moore Williams (1938).
• Robot as murder witness in True Confession by F. Orlin Tremaine (1939)
• Gnut, in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940) - (Later made into the classic 1954 SF film The Day the Earth Stood Still)

• Robots by Isaac Asimov:
  • Robbie, Speedy, Cutie, and others, from the stories in I, Robot (1940 - 1950) (not to be confused with the Binder short story of the same title)
  • L-76, Z-1, Z-2, Z-3, Emma-2, Brackenridge, Tony, Lenny, Ez-27 and others, from the stories in The Rest of the Robots 1964
  • R. Daneel Olivaw, from The Caves of Steel (1954) and subsequent novels
  • R. Giskard Reventlov, from The Robots of Dawn and subsequent novels
  • Andrew Martin, from The Bicentennial Man (1976) (later made into a film) and The Positronic Man (a novel) with Robert Silverberg
  • Norby, in a series of books for children co-written with Janet Asimov
• The Humanoids, from two novels by Jack Williamson,(1949 and 1980)
• Zane Gort, a robot novelist, in the short story The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber, (1959)
• Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a comic book series. (1961)
• The Iron Man, in the book by Ted Hughes (1968)
• Androids, fully organic in nature -- the products of genetic engineering -- and so human-like that they can only be distinguished by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not human. -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) by Philip K. Dick
• The Electric Grandmother in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury,(1969)
• Doraemon in a manga by Fujiko Fujio (1969)
• The masculinist plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas -- The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin
• HARLIE in When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One by David Gerrold (1972)
• Setaur and Terminus in Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanisław Lem (1973)
• Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978–1981) (originally a radio series, then a book trilogy and a TV series, and later a motion picture)
• Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch series (1980–1981) (originally a radio series, then a two book series).
• Chip, the robot teenager in the Not Quite Human series (1985-1986), by Seth McEvoy. Later, Disney made the book into two movies.
• Marilyn, named after Marilyn Monroe, in Kazuo Umezu's 1982 manga My name is Shingo
• Two extreme examples of robot morality, one perfectly innocent and one perfectly criminal, in Roderick and Tik-Tok (1980, 1983) by John Sladek
• Frost, Beta, Mordel, and the Ore Crusher in Roger Zelazny's short story For a Breath I Tarry.
• The Boppers, a race of moon-based robots that achieve independence from humanity, in the series of books The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker.
• Jay-Dub and Dee Model in Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal. (1996)
• Dorfl, a golem deliberately described in terms reminiscent of an Asimovian robot, in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay. (1996)
• Moravecs are sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium, (2003)
• Project 2501 in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese manga describes an espionage AI that achieves sentience. (1991)

Film

1930s and earlier

• Futura in Metropolis (1927)
• Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film series (1936).

1950s

• Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (film version of Farewell to the Master)
• Robby, in Forbidden Planet (1956)

1960s

• B9 Robot in Lost In Space (1965-1968)
• Mechani-Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967)

1970s

• The all-robot police force in THX 1138 (1971)
• The drones Huey, Duey, and Louie, in Silent Running (1972). Notable as the first movie in which non-anthropomorphic robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees.
• The robots in Sleeper (1973)
• The robotic gunfighters in Westworld, one of which was played by Yul Brynner (1973)
• The bomb in Dark Star (1974, by John Carpenter)
• Mechagodzilla in various Godzilla films (1974).
• Box, in Logan's Run (1976)
• C-3PO, R2-D2 in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) and subsequent films
• V.I.N.CENT., B.O.B, Maximillian and the androids made out of humans -- The Black Hole (1979)
• Ash in Alien (1979)

1980s

• Hector, in Saturn 3 (1980)
• Uèr, an "electro-chemical" android capable of human feelings, in Milady 3000 comic book by Magnus (1980)
• The replicants Roy Batty, Pris, Leon Kowalski, Zhora, Rachael, and possibly Rick Deckard -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
• T-800 as the robot assassin in The Terminator (1984)
• The little boy Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform in D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
• Bishop in Aliens (1986)
• Max, peroscope-like robot aboard an alien spacecraft in Flight of the Navigator (1986)
• Number 5 aka Johnny 5 in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988)
• Tik-Tok in Return to Oz (1985)
• ED-209 in RoboCop (1987)
• Cherry 2000 in Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The android Ulysses in the film Making Mr. Right (1987)
• The android Astor, played by Stacey Williams, in Gangster World (1988)
• The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica

1990s

• The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 Model 101 and Robert Patrick as the T-1000 Model Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Battle Droids in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Project 2501 in the Movie Adaptation of Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell Japanese manga anime describes AI surveillance of population. (1995)
• Bishop (android) in Alien³ (1992)
• "SID 6.7", the villain in the film "Virtuosity" (1995) as a nanotech synthetic android, played by Russell Crowe.
• David, Becker and Jessica from Screamers (film) (1995) based on the short story Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
• Solo in Solo (1996)
• Annalee in Alien: Resurrection (1997)
• "Robot" in Lost in Space, the movie of the TV series (1998 )
• The Iron Giant (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
• Andrew, and others the robot servant in Bicentennial Man (1999) -- based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
• Vanessa the exploding fembot assassin in Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

2000s

• AMEE the robot scout in the film Red Planet, who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship. (2000)
• many robots, including David, the lead character, in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story, Supertoys Last All Summer Long[2].
• Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-850 Model 101 Terminator and Kristanna Loken as the T-X Terminator in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
• The robot butler B166ER, the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One, and the Sentinels from the Matrix series.(1999-2003)
• B-4, Data's brother in Star Trek: Nemesis (2003)
• Sonny (Type NS-5) and many other robots in I, Robot (2004)
• the entire cast of Robots (2005)

Television films and series

1960s and earlier

• Rosie the Maid in The Jetsons (1962)
• Robert the Robot, the transparent mechanical spaceship co-pilot in the Fireball XL5 British puppet television series created by Gerry Anderson (1962)
• Various unnamed robots in the series Space Patrol (known as Planet Patrol in the US (1962)
• K-9, Kamelion, the Movellans, and many more, in the British Doctor Who series (1963–2005) (See also List of Doctor Who robots)

• Astro Boy from Astro Boy the Japanese animated series (1963–1966)
• "Rhoda Miller" in My Living Doll (1964)
• "Robot B-9" in Lost in Space TV series (1965–1968)
• Hymie the Robot in the comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970)
• Various minor characters and villains (Dr. Korby, Rayna, the Nomad probe, Mudd's androids) in "Star Trek" TV series (1966–1969)
• Serendipity Dog - a robot character that asked questions on the BBC children's television science series Tom Tom (1960?-1969)
• Tobor The 8th Man in the Japanese Anime TV series. Also, his younger, stronger, but less sophisticated sister Samantha 7. See http://www.alphalink.com.au/~roglen/tobor.htm

1970s

• Zed, the rebel robot in The Ed and Zed Show (c1970)
• Questor, The Questor Tapes (1974)
• Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)
• Officer Haven [Future Cop] (1976-77)
• The Clinkers, Shields and Yarnell (1977-78)
• K-9, the talking robotic dog (actually, dogs) from the British television series Doctor Who.
• Peepo, the robot from the children's series Space Academy (1977-1979)
• Haro, Mobile Suit Gundam (1977)
• The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978–1980) (in the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor)
• H.E.R.B.I.E. in the 1978 Fantastic Four animated series
• Twiki and Dr. Theopolis in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
• V.I.N.CENT, Old B.O.B., and Maximillian (robot) from the 1979 movie, The Black Hole.
• W1k1 or Wiki, the pocket-sized robot from the children's series Jason of Space Command (1979-1981) (a seeming spinoff of Space Academy)

1980s

• Metal Mickey first appeared on British television in the ITV London Weekend Television children's magazine show The Saturday Banana in 1979 and then in his own show from 1980 to 1983
• KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a non-humanoid robot in the form of a car (and its prototype, KARR [Knight Automated Roving Robot]), from Knight Rider (1982–1986)
• The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984-present)
• Go-bots were featured in a Transformers-like series also named Go-Bots around the same time as the Trasnformers series.
• Voltron Defender of the Universe (1984-1986}
• Vicki (Voice Input Child Indenticant) the little girl robot in Small Wonder (1985)
• Conky 2000, robot who gives out the secret word in Pee-wee's Playhouse , 1986 until 1991.
• Data, Lore, Lal (Data's daughter) and Juliana Tainer in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
• Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, Gypsy and Cambot from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
• The Skutters, Kryten, the Simulants and many others from Red Dwarf (1988)
• Blitz, a robotic dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S., 1988 and 1989.
• No-No, from the animated children's series Ulysses 31

1990s

• Sgt. Eve Edison, robot police officer in Mann & Machine (1992)
• Alpha 5 from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993 - 1996) to Power Rangers: Turbo
• Battle Borgs from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers (1995)
• Alpha 6 from Power Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy
• 790, the sarcastic and perverse bodyless robot head of Lexx
• Blue Senturion, robotic Intergalactic Police Officer from Power Rangers: Turbo to Power Rangers: In Space
• Buffybot, April and Ted in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
• Bender the robot in the animated series Futurama (1999)
• Robot Devil, the demonic ruler of Robot Hell in the animated series Futurama (1999)
• The marionettes from the anime series Saber Marionette R (1995), Saber Marionette J (1997), Saber Marionette J Again OAV (1998), and Saber Marionette J to X (1999)
• The boy robot Rusty, of the animated series The Big Guy and Rusty
• Satan's Robot, a meta-fictional robot in The Adventures of Captain Proton, a holodeck program from Star Trek: Voyager
• Zords, giant fighting machines from all seasons of Power Rangers
• Ian Favre, CPB officer in Total Recall 2070

2000s

• Frax from Power Rangers: Time Force
• Alpha 7 from Power Rangers: Wild Force
• XR, the indestrutible, self healing sidekick robot in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (also XL, the proto-version of XR)
• Chii, the Persocom in the Japanese anime series Chobits (2002)
• Robot Jones from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? (2002)
• The Tachikoma spider tanks from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
• Thunderclese from The Brak Show (2001–2003)
• GIR and the Robo-Parents from Invader Zim (2001)
• "Jenny" XJ-9 Wakeman from My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
• R. Dorothy Wayneright in The Big O (2003)
• The Mobile Doll systems onboard Virgos and other mobile suits in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
• B4 in the movie Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
• Number Six in Battlestar Galactica (2003-present)
• H.E.L.P.eR., a robot developed by Junas Venture in The Venture Bros..
• Mahoro, the protagonist of Mahoromatic.
• Goddard, Jimmy Neutron's robot pet dog.
• Bill Cosby from South Park
• Mecha-Streisand from South Park
• R.I.C. 2.0, Robotic Interactive Canine who transforms itself into a Canine Cannon from Power Rangers: SPD
• S.O.P.H.I.E., Series One Processor Hyper Intelligent Encriptor who is kidnapped and used for her programming from Power Rangers: SPD
• The replicators, seen in multiple seasons of Stargate: SG-1.
• Toy Santa from The Santa Clause 2
• Mr Dent, nanotech enforcer from Codename Eternity
• MEGAS from Megas XLR

Comics/Graphic Novels

Comic Books

• The ABC Warriors from the comic 2000 AD.
• Grag and Otho from the pulp magazines Captain Future & Startling Stories
• The Golden Age Human Torch in Marvel Comics, (1938)
• The Superman duplicates, Brainiac (pre-Crisis) and Kelex in Superman, (1958)
• Doctor Doom's Doombots in Fantastic Four (1961)
• Ultron, the Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema in The Avengers (1963)
• The Sentinels in X-Men (1963)
• The Red Tornado, Amazo and Tomorrow Woman and Hourman III in JLA (1968)
• Robotman in Doom Patrol (1963)
• The Manhunters in Green Lantern (1959)
• The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android in Fantastic Four and various other Marvel Comics. Would later be featured in She Hulk's 2004 series under the name 'Awesome Andy'.
• Jeremy Feeple and Professor Steamhead got replaced with badly constructed, unconvincing robot doubles (which eventually exploded) in an early issue of Ninja High School.
• Robot Archie in the UK comic Valiant
• Android Andy, a parody of Robot Archie in Captain Britain
• Brassneck in The Dandy
• Tonto and Lothar from The Metabarons.
• Robots from planet Des from polish serie "Gods from The Space", which was written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and ilustrated by Bogusław Polch.
• Android from Frank Miller's "Hard Bolied".
• Robo-cops from Incal (by Moebius & Jodorowsky)

Web based media

Animated Shorts/Series

Flash

• The Hands of God, featuring in chapter 6 of James Farr's Xombie
• Rya Botkins of Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage
• June Crane of Bonus Stage (possibly not--see page for more details)
• The Grape Nuts Robot, Created by Bubs to imitate Strong Bad from Homestar Runner Appears here [3]

Web Comics

• ARPA-01 (female type) and VIC-02 (male type) virtual intercourse companions in Sexy Losers' Scientific Erotican plot thread (2003)
• "Clanks", various (steam powered?) robots in Phil Foglio's steampunk fantasy Girl Genius.
• Eve, a female android from Applegeeks, built using Apple Macintosh parts.
• Emotibot, a robot programmed to feel emotions, from Beaver and Steve
• Ezekiel aka 'Zeke' - Formally known as the "X-bot", the anthropomorphised Xbox console from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del.
• J-LB8/Jalea Bates in Melonpool. Started as a robot, later to become a human.
• Lothar Hex from Exterminatus Now.
• Medivac 911 ('Doc'), a steam-powered medical/janitorial droid from The Polymer City Chronicles.
• The Ottobot [4], a robot duplicate of the character Francis Ray Ottoman featured in PvP.
• PC, ASCII and O in Funny Farm.
• Ping-chan, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo.
• Pintsize, an AnthroPC from Questionable Content. Other AnthroPCs have featured in Questionable Content.
• Robot Frank, an internet personality found at Robot Frank's website
• Sancho, from Bigger Than Cheeses.
• The giant talking dildo featured in Girly by Josh Lesnick.
• A sugar powered robot suit owned by Beefsteak from Filthy Lies.
• The self-aware technology in Gene Catlow.
• Various characters in Freefall, including Helix.
• Various characters in 21st Century Fox.
• Various characters from Diesel Sweeties, including Clango Cyclotron.

Computer and video games

• Geary, a cleanliness-obsessed and evil robot from Crash Nitro Kart.
• Mega Man, Bass, Proto Man, Roll, and the Robot Masters from the Mega Man video game series.
• Entire cast of the Mega Man X video game series.
• The reploids in the Megaman Zero series, robots with human intelligence. The main character robots and bosses in its precursor series, Mega Man X, are also reploids, but not always stated as such specifically. All of the minor enemies in both series and the Mega Man Classic series are also robots using a less advanced technology.
• The Badniks, the E-Series robots and Metallix; all developed by Doctor Robotnik in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Floyd, the lovable sidekick robot from the Infocom text adventure Planetfall.
• Cait Sith, a fortune-telling robotic cat controlled via remote by a man named Reeve Teusti. By extention, Cait Sith rides atop a giant, robotic moogle to which Cait Sith relays commands through a megaphone.
• HMX-12 Multi and HMX-13 Serio, the popular robot maids from To Heart as well as their successor, HMX-17a Ilfa from To Heart 2.
• Robo from Chrono Trigger.
• Thursday, sidekick of Captain Gordon the 37th Defender of Earth (and later itself the 38th Defender of Earth) from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
• Gadget and Gadget Z from Suikoden II and Suikoden III respectively.
• Assorted monsters from the Final Fantasy series.
• The "machina" from Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2.
• Emeralda, a colony of nanomachines from Xenogears.
• KOS-MOS, MOMO, and the Realians from Xenosaga.
• The Cyberdisc and Sectopod species in X-COM: UFO Defense.
• 343 Guilty Spark, from the Halo series of video games.
• 2401 Penitent Tangent, from Halo 2.
• HK-47 from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, part of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
• The entire Core army in Total Annihilation
• The Servbots from Mega Man Legends
• JACK from the Tekken series
• The Metal Gears from the Metal Gear series
• Cyrax, Sektor, and Smoke from the Mortal Kombat series
• Hengar from Monster Rancher
• The Robo-Kys from the Guilty Gear series
• Dog from Half-Life 2
• Kurt Zisa, a secret Heartless boss in the American and Final Mix versions of Kingdom Hearts
• Clank, Doctor Nefarious and countless others in the Ratchet & Clank series.
• ROB 64, from Star Fox 64 and Star Fox: Assault
• Mike, a "karaoke robot" from WarioWare: Touched!. Dr. Crygor, for some reason, used him as a janitor.
• Chibi-Robo, a tiny robot housekeeper that is the main playable character in the game of same name.
• The Ridepod, a customizable industrial revolution-style robot that Max can ride in the dungeons in the RPG Dark Cloud 2.
• The Copyroid, a robot that allows a Net-Navi to be projected into the real world and interact with it in Megaman Battle Network 6.

Unsorted works

• Transmetropolitan features AIs who abuse virtual hallucinogens
• Various Star Trek "characters".
• Harry Harrison / Marvin Minsky: The Turing Option (novel)
• The Mind's I edited by Daniel C. Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter
• Personoids Stanisław Lem's novels/books
• Arthur from The Journeyman Project video game series
• Solace in the Callahan's Place stories of Spider Robinson
• IQ-9 of Star Blazers, originally called Analyzer in Space Battleship Yamato.
• Haro, mascot character of U.C.Gundam.
• Sy Borg from Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage.
• Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the BBC radio series Nineteen Ninety-Four by William Osborne and Richard Turner.
• Coheed (the Beast), Cambria (The Knowledge), Jesse (The Inferno), Mayo Deftinwolf, and a number of other IRO-Bot "children", who are genetically altered humans with superhuman powers and robotic qualities, (i.e: can be taken apart and terminated) from the graphic novel series The Bag On Line Adventures written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. The characters and plotlines are also incorporated into the band's music.
• Robots from "System Shock" game.

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• Artificial intelligence
• Science fiction
• List of fictional computers
• Cyborgs in fiction

External links

• Robot Hall of Fame at CMU – With fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2
• Robots in sci-fi and horror films