Wikipedia: Robots in literature

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List of robots in literature and films:

First appeared in print:

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]
Robots by Isaac Asimov:
- Robbie?, Speedy?, Cutie?, [Stephen Byerly]? (or is he?) and others, from the stories in I, Robot
- [R. Daneel Olivaw]?, from The Caves of Steel and subsequent novels
- [Andrew Martin]?, from "The Bicentennial Man" (later made into a film)
[Adam Link]? of "I, Robot" by Eando Binder (predates the Asimov book of the same title)
Klaatu? of "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates (later adapted to film as The Day the Earth Stood Still)
[Helen O'Loy]?, from the story of the same title by [Lester del Rey]? (1938)
The Humanoids, from a series by [Jack Williamson]?

First appeared in film:

Maria -- Metropolis
C-3PO? -- Star Wars
R2-D2? -- Star Wars
Replicants -- Blade Runner (based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Fully organic beings, but artificially created.)
Robby -- [Forbidden Planet]?

First appeared on television: (might realy be stretching 'literature', but here...)

Cylon?s -- [Battlestar Galactica]? (according to the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor. Don't know if this was true in the TV show, but this is the literature page...)(see /Talk)

Doctor Who -- K-9, the Movellans (the Daleks were travel machines for little blobby organic aliens, not robots or even cyborgs)