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List of fictional robots and androids

List of robots and androids in literature and cinema:

Theatre

• 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.

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)
• A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
• A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
• The Tin Woodsman and 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)

• 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)
  • Norby, in a series of books for children co-written with Janet Asimov

• 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)
• 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)
• Gnut, in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates
• Zane Gort, a robot novelist, of The Silver Eggheads by Fritz Leiber
• The Humanoids, from a series by Jack Williamson
• 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)
• 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)
• Doraemon in a manga by Fujiko Fujio
• 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
• The Ore Crusher in Roger Zelazny's short story For a Breath I Tarry.
• Moravecs are sentient descendants of probes sent by humans to the Jovian belt, in Dan Simmons' Ilium
• Dorfl, a golem deliberately described in terms reminiscent of an Asimovian robot, in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay.

Films

• The false Maria, in Metropolis (1927)
• Annihilants, robot soldiers belonging to Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon film series (1936).
• The Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz (1939 movie)
• Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (film version of Farewell to the Master)
• Robby, in Forbidden Planet (1956)
• 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 (1973)
• Box, in Logan's Run (1976)
• C-3PO, R2-D2 and the droid army, in Star Wars (1977) and subsequent films
• V.I.N.C.E.N.T, B.O.B, Maximillian and the androids made out of humans -- The Black Hole (1979)
• Ash in Alien (1979), Bishop in Aliens and Alien³, and Annalee in Alien: Resurrection
• Hector, in Saturn 3 (1980)
• Replicants -- Blade Runner (1982) (the film version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
• The robot assassin in The Terminator (1984) and sequels
• The little boy Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform in D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)
• Johnny 5 in Short Circuit (1986) and its sequel, Short Circuit 2
• ED-209 in Robocop (1987)
• Cherry 2000 in Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The android Astor, played by Stacey Williams, in Gangster World (1988)
• The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
• The Iron Giant (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
• "Robot" in Lost in Space , the movie of the TV series (1998 )
• Andrew 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)
• 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.
• The robot butler B166ER, the residents of the machine nation of Zero-One, and the Sentinels from the Matrix series.
• many robots in I, Robot (2004)

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 (1963–1989)
• 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 to 1968)
• Hymie the Robot in the comedy series Get Smart (1965–1970)

1970s

• The Clinkers, Shields and Yarnell (1977-78)
• The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (1978–1980) (in the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor)
• Questor, The Questor Tapes (1974)
• Twiki and Dr. Forrester in Buck Rogers (1979)
• Yo-Yo, aka Geogory Yoyonovitch, Holmes and Yo-Yo (1976)

1980s

• KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), a non-humanoid robot in the form of a car, from Knight Rider (1982–1986)
• The Transformers of various Transformers television series (1984–2003)
• Vicki (Voice Imput Child Indenticant) the little girl robot in Small Wonder (1985)
• 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)

1990s and later

• 790, the sarcastic and perverse bodyless robot head of Lexx
• XR, the indestructable, self healing sidekick robot in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (also XL, the proto-version of XR)
• Bender the Robot in the animated series Futurama (1999)
• 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 from Invader Zim (2001)
• XJ-9 (aka Jenny) from My Life as a Teenage Robot (2003)
• R. Dorothy Wayneright in Big O (anime) (2003)
• ARPA-01 (female type) and VIC-02 (male type) virtual intercourse companions in Sexy Losers' Scientific Erotican plot thread (2003)

Comic books

• The original Human Torch in Marvel Comics
• The Superman duplicates, Brainiac and Kelex in Superman
• Doctor Doom's Doombots and H.E.R.B.I.E. in Fantastic Four
• Ultron, the Vision, Jocasta and Alkhema in 'The Avengers
• The Red Tornado, Amazo and Tomorrow Woman in JLA
• The Sentinels in X-Men

Computer and video games

• Ping-chan, the PlayStation 2 accessory robot-girl from MegaTokyo
• Megaman and various other robots from the video game series Mega Man
• Metal Sonic, the evil robotic clone of Sonic from the Sonic the hedgehog video game series.

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