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List of fictional robots and androids

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This is a chronological list of robots and androids in literature and cinema.

See also the List of fictional computers

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Theatre

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)
  • Gnut , in Farewell to the Master by Harry Bates (1940) - (Later made into the classic 1954 SF film The Day the Earth Stood Still)

Films

Television films and series

1960s and earlier

1970s

  • The Clinkers, Shields and Yarnell (1977-78)
  • The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica (19781980) (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

1990s and later

Comic books

Computer and video games

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

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Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45