One example is an episode of The Twilight Zone, " The Mighty Casey ", concerning a baseball player who is actually a robot.

The central character is NDR, a robot who begins to modify himself with organic components.

* Dorabase, a spin-off about robot cats who play on a baseball team.

) As they return home they are ambushed by agents of Seatopia who are trying to steal Jet Jaguar, a humanoid robot under construction by the trio of inventors.

The winner of the contest was an elementary school student, who submitted the drawing of a robot called Red Arone, which superficially resembled both Ultraman and Mazinger Z.

Iggy Pop, who performs the vocals on " Risky ", chose not to appear in the video, allowing his performance space to be occupied by the surrealist era robot.

; " Marionettes, Inc .": A man who was blackmailed into marriage by a woman who was raped ( and blames him for raping her ) buys a realistic robot to act as a surrogate so he doesn't have to deal with his wife.

" The City of Brass " features a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition across the Sahara to find an ancient lost city and attempt to recover a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn, and, along the way, encounter a mummified queen, petrified inhabitants, lifelike humanoid robots and automata, seductive marionettes dancing without strings, and a brass horseman robot who directs the party towards the ancient city, which has now become a ghost town.

The concepts of Data's family is explored in " The Offspring " which introduces a robot based on Data's neural interface and is technically his daughter Lal, who died shortly after activation.

There is also a seventh robot, an all-purpose multifunction repair robot named Fred, who spends the entirety of the game broken and cannot be repaired.

The robot leads the workers from the city, who unknowingly leave their children behind, and they surge into the machine halls, abandoning their posts and destroying the Heart Machine, the central power Station of the city, which causes all the city's systems to fail.

" He faulted Metropolis for its premise that automation created drudgery rather than relieving it, wondered who was buying the machines ' output if not the workers, and found parts of the story derivative of Shelley's Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's robot stories, and his own The Sleeper Awakes.

* Techno-A science teacher who appeared in the strip during the mid-1990s and was actually a robot in the form of the cartoon Inspector Gadget with gadgets around his body.

The finale reveals that " Hummin " is actually Cleon's first minister Eto Demerzel, who we later learn is in fact the robot R. Daneel Olivaw.

The next month Ernest and Otto Binder published a short story " I, Robot " featuring a sympathetic robot named Adam Link who was misunderstood and motivated by love and honor.

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.

The title story of the Robot Dreams collection portrays LVX-1, or " Elvex ", a robot who enters a state of unconsciousness and dreams thanks to the unusual fractal construction of his positronic brain.

C-3PO (, phonetically spelled See-Threepio ; 3PO or Threepio for short ) is a robot character from the Star Wars universe who appears in both the original Star Wars films and the prequel trilogy.

Gyro is often assisted by his Little Helper ( or just " Helper "), who is a small anthropomorphic robot with a light bulb for a head.

Klaatu steps out of the spaceship and addresses the assembled scientists, explaining that humanity's penchant for violence and first steps into space have caused concern among other inhabitants of the universe who have created and empowered a race of robot enforcers including Gort to deter such aggression.

The robot Gort, who serves Klaatu, was played by the naturally tall Lock Martin, who worked as an usher at Graumann's Chinese Theater and stood seven feet tall.

* Robot, his assistant, a young punk who is not a robot, who, like Tatanya, is becoming influenced by the weird people he hangs around with, though less so than Tatanya.

The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003.

Superman manages to destroy the Kryptonite-powered ship and recover the crystal-simultaneously confronting Lex with the fact that, despite his claims that Superman has been ' holding him back ' from helping humanity, the only thing he accomplished with Superman being absent for a year was to find a large robot that he used to try to destroy everything -, but Lex manages to escape custody yet again.

Having been separated from the real Maria, Freder watches as the false Maria is set afire and gradually transforms back into her robot form.

Equipped with the new robotic gear from the robot guard they destroyed earlier, Eric, Olaf, and Baleog must fight their way through time once again in order to find their way back home.

Spaceball One's secret weapon is its ability to transform, in parody of various transforming robot toys ( Barf describes it as " a Transformer "), into Mega Maid, a colossal cleaning woman holding a gigantic vacuum cleaner used to extract air from other planets and take it back to planet Spaceball.

Steve eventually forces Red Skull out, placing him back into his robot body.

The plant was converted back to manufacture car parts after the war and became the first location of an industrial robot used to replace human workers.

Then his faithful disciples bring him saké in place of a ceremonial offering, pour electricity back into his robot heart, and wait for him to start moving ...

The most common " weapon " used in a sumobot competition is an angled blade at the front of the robot, usually tilted at about a 45-degree angle towards the back of the robot.

The premise behind the Transformers toyline is that an individual toy's parts can be shifted about to change it from a vehicle, a device, or an animal, to a robot action figure and back again.

* A back missile, which is fired from the back of the robot as the robot is lying on his chest facing toward his enemy.

Speed noticed its robot “ driver ” and brought it back to the police for further investigation.

Within a week sufficient systems were brought back online to allow robot cargo ships to dock with the station.

Johnny then smashes the back of Squee's father's head with a toy robot in order to get him to stop talking, then bids Squee adieu.

* In Red vs Blue, when the character Church is thrown back in time in Episode 50, he tries to prevent certain things from happening, in the process leading to everything becoming the way it was: kicking dirt on a switch hoping it to be replaced, instead it was kept and later got stuck ; giving his captain painkillers to prevent a heart attack, but killing him because the captain is allergic to aspirin ; trying to make the tank not kill him by disabling the friendly-fire protocol, which later proves his death ; telling the tank and robot that they should not leave and build a robot army, thereby giving them the idea to do it ; trying to shoot O ' Malley with the rocket launcher only to shoot Tucker because of the launcher's highly defective targeting system and his inability to aim.

Crow holds the distinction of being the only SOL robot who ever visited Deep 13 ( although Tom Servo and Gypsy once visited the alternate-earth version ): In episode 615, Kitten with a Whip, he slid down the Umbilicus in an attempt to bring the SOL back to Earth, only to be frightened back up by Dr. Forrester ( who then had Frank put a giant mousetrap beneath the Umbilicus ).

Some spaces, specifically " happening " spaces, will incorporate the relevant theme ; for example, a giant robot resembling Mecha Bowser will shoot any character back to the start when landing on its " happening " space in the Toy Dream board.

* In the episode Attack of Big MACC in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, the " thinking " robot MACC leaves his time ( 2390 ) and time travels back to the late 1980s.

It attacks safely from inside the monitor, but soon emerges from it, revealing that it ’ s a two-in-one robot.

Baxter, a collaborative robot which can safely and effectively interact with human workers in performance of simple industrial tasks was introduced on September 18, 2012 by Rethink Robotics.

Baxter was an industrial robot selling for about $ 20, 000 which was designed to safely interact with neighboring human workers and be programmable for the performance of simple tasks.

The story is similar to ( and even could have been based upon ) Star Wars ; a princess steals a secret data disk from an evil empire, and she safely smuggles out the information through a robot, but is captured herself.

Since the first robot combat competitions, some types of weapons have been prohibited either because they violated the spirit of the competition or they could not be safely used.

A robot courier arrives with a package, for Ford Prefect care of Arthur Dent, which Arthur decides to keep safely closed on the basis that anything that involves Ford Prefect is dangerous.

When doused with water, a Scraplet loosens its grip on the host robot and falls away, allowing it to be safely destroyed without harming the host.