List of fictional robots

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List of robots and androids in literature and film:

Table of contents

1 Theatre
2 Literature
3 Film
4 Television
5 Related articles

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. [1]

Literature

Maidens made of gold, Bronze giant Talos, in The Iliad by Homer (circa 800 BC)
The woman forged out of gold in The Kalevala
The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, mentioned in the Talmud.
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)
A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce
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, 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
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
Gort, 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
Doraemon in manga
The Electric Grandmother in the short story of the same name, from I Sing the Body Electric by Ray Bradbury

Film

The false Maria, in Metropolis (1927)
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)
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) and Bishop in Aliens
The android in Alien Resurrection (1997)
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
Johnny 5 in Short Circuit (1986) and its sequel, Short Circuit 2
The evil robotic doubles in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
The Iron Giant (1999) (film version of The Iron Man)
Bicentennial Man (1999) -- based on a short story by Isaac Asimov
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[1].

Television

Astro Boy from Astro Boy (1960s - )
"Robot" in Lost in Space (1960s)
Rosie the Maid in The Jetsons (1960s)
"Rhoda Miller" in My Living Doll (1964)
K-9, the Movellans, and many more, in Doctor Who (1963-1989)
Hymie the Robot in the comedy series Get Smart (1965 - 1970)
Cylons -- Battlestar Galactica (1978-1980) (In the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor.)
Twiki and Dr. Forrester -- Buck Rogers (1979)
Marvin the Paranoid Android -- (1978--1981) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Originally a radio series, then a book and a TV series).
Data and Lore -- Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Tom Servo, Crow, Gypsy and Cambot from Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)
Vicki the little girl robot in Small Wonder
The cyborg teenager in Not Quite Human and its sequels
Bender the Robot in the animated series Futurama (1999)
790 (Robot) the sarcastic and perverse body-less robot head of Lexx.
KITT, the Knight Industries Two Thousand from Knight Rider, is a non-humanoid robot in the form of a car.
XR, the indestructable, self healing sidekick robot in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Also XL, the proto-version of XR.