In Star Wars, Astromech droids ( or commonly, Astro droids ), were a type of droid that served as automated mechanics, performing a variety of repair duties and often serving as adjuncts or substitutes for nav computers on smaller starships.

Unknown to Vader, the young senator has hidden the plans inside the Astromech droid R2-D2 and has sent it to find Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi on the nearby planet of Tatooine.

Droids were also used in fields that required extensive specialization and knowledge, such as medical droids and astromech droids.

Several trade organizations, such as the Trade Federation and Commerce Guild, kept armies of droids in order to protect their profits and occasionally took advantage of this, such as when the Trade Federation invaded and occupied Naboo, resulting in the Battle of Naboo.

In some fictions, like Star Wars, plasma is highly effective against mechanical targets such as droids.

Ion weapons are primarily used for disabling electronic systems such as vehicles, droids and starships without doing any physical damage to the target.

* prop-inanimate performer or even artificial actor in show, TV and movie production ( as the fictitious first toy robots, see above ); as technology advances, some advanced robots can, often helped with other special effects, to make them seem what cannot ( yet ), even be significantly more than a cast extra, such as the Starwars ' droids ' R2-D2 and C-3P0 in the Star Wars double trilogy ( 1977-2005 ) which have proved rather popular from the start.

Other droids, such as Droidekas, Spider Droids and Pit Droids, are constructed entirely from standard Lego pieces, yet are still generally considered minifigures.

She is finally rescued by Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, the Wookiee Chewbacca, and the two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO.

He takes his first steps toward his destiny when he finds two droids, C-3PO and R2-D2, the latter of whom is carrying a message for Obi-Wan Kenobi, known to Luke as the hermit old Ben Kenobi.

In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, set 32 years before A New Hope, R2-D2 is portrayed as belonging to the Naboo defense forces and is one of eight astromech droids deployed for repair duty on Queen Padmé Amidala's starship as it attempts to get past the Trade Federation blockade.

In The Glove of Darth Vader, C-3PO and R2-D2 are members of the Senate Planetary Intelligence Network ( SPIN ), and undergo transformation by the Droid Modification Team to be disguised as Kessel droids so that they could infiltrate a gathering of Imperials to find out who is planning to take control of the Empire.

R2-D2 is a well-known whistler from the Star Wars series of films who uses modulated whistles to communicate with other droids and express emotion.

Han and Leia Organa Solo, along with their droids C-3PO and R2-D2, set off on adventures to root out and overthrow any planetary government that plans to acquiesce to the Yuuzhan Vong.

Star Wars: Droids, also known as Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, was an animated television series that featured the exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the droids who have appeared in all six Star Wars films.

A Star Wars-themed t-shirt design was offered by the website ShirtPunch. com, featuring R2-D2 and C-3PO and the caption " Ce ne sont pas les droids.

The first task ( from the training missions ) is to search for an escape pod that landed on Tatooine, and then track the droids that were inside-which is a reference to the opening scenes of Star Wars Episode IV when C3PO and R2-D2 escape Imperial clutches via an escape pod which crashes on Tatooine.

R2-D2 and other astromech droids are constructed from unique parts, with a separate top, body and legs.

By chance, Luke Skywalker and Admiral Ackbar, after picking up the droids from Kessel, bring them to Mon Calamari to download the information that R2-D2 found.

A few non-droids can also learn to understand it through working with the droids for long periods of time, and protocol droids are able to translate Binary into other languages.

He is attacked by battle droids, but defeats them through ingenious tactics.

As Republic reinforcements are en route, Delta Squad defends the vessel against hordes of battle droids, destroying the docking shield stabilizers, allowing nothing to pass through.

Droids, while not being armed, can travel through the game without being intentionally attacked by enemy characters also, protocol droids and astromech droids can open special doors, then there are players like Boba Fett and Young Anakin that can fit in tight places.

Riley discovers that the medical bay is full of droids and cyborgs and fights his way through to the cryo tubes where the body of General Hammond is.

Among Holly's systems are the service droids known as skutters, which clean, perform engineering tasks, and function as Rimmer's hands since he couldn't touch anything non-holographic until he was converted to " hard light " in Series VI Episode 2, Legion.

When he first enters the ship, Delta-38 ponders why the interior of the Prosecutor remains deserted and eerily quiet, when he is suddenly ambushed by droids known as Scavengers, which are responsible for the communications disruptions between the squad members.

Designers faced a fundamental paradox — make the droids overly intelligent, and they might rebel ; yet make the droids not intelligent enough and they would be ineffectual.

; Droids: Droids aims to be an intelligent standalone robot framework that allows to create and extend existing droids ( robots ).

It is unusual in that it is one of the only blasters that fire blue laser beams which cause an electromagnetic pulse to kill droids ; the majority fire red or green laser beams.

The book also explores the reasons for the cantina's ban on droids: the bartender Wuher claims to dislike everyone, but lashes out at droids because they are the only thing that will not try to fight back ; the proprietor, a Wookiee named Chalmun, does not tolerate droids because they do not drink, and therefore occupy valuable space.

In The New Rebellion, Threepio, along with Artoo and a young mechanic named Cole Fardreamer, is instrumental in stopping Kueller from regaining power by disabling the explosive devices he had placed in a large number of droids.

In two player versus mode, one player controls the ECO35-2 droid by default, while the other chooses between one of the five droids seen in single player mode ( a special cheat code can enable the Supervisor as well ).

The droids have a number of " power supplies " that can apply power to one circuit.

If the droid has weapons, the player can destroy other droids simply by shooting them, instead of taking them over ( though higher-numbered droids can require several shots to destroy, and might actually fire back ).

Each droid can access information about itself and all lower-numbered droids ( this access is available to the player based on the droid being controlled ).

* Zombie Bots-Feral Bots made of scrap metal capable of reforming after being destroyed ( but they can only do this once before they are destroyed permanently ), and have an " unquenchable thirst for fresh oil ", the equivalent of blood for droids.

Luke suggests that the droids be used to liberate worlds so the Alliance can launch an all-out attack, but everyone else votes for Wedge's plan.

The series is divided up into three cycles: at the beginning of each, the droids usually run into their new masters in an accidental way, and at the end of each cycle, they usually are forced to leave their masters for one reason or another.

: With Green's help, Smash Daisaku amassed all four Mystical Gems, has turned Gunstar 9's peaceful worker droids into deadly menaces, and is now preparing to leave for Gunstar 9's moon to reactivate Golden Silver.

The droids prove superior to even the defenses of the Citadel until the Emperor releases an army of monstrous creatures-" chrysalis monsters "-rancors mutated by the dark side and Sith alchemy into crazed and nigh-invulnerable beasts of destruction.

At the same time, Face, who has just been promoted to Brevet Captain and given command of the squad, delves deeper into the history of Lara Notsil, finding out her secret and forcing her to abandon the group, though she would later help out the New Republic by creating an army of saboteur droids to cripple the flagship of the warlord.