Robots in fiction

List of robots in literature and films:

First appeared in print:

• 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]?
• The golem-like creatures from Karl Capek's R.U.R. ("Rossum's Universal Robots" 1920) [1]

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?)
• Robby -- [Forbidden Planet]?

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

• Twiki and Dr. Forrester - Buck Rogers (1979)
• [Tom Servo]?, Crow, Gypsy and Cambot from [Mystery Science Theater 3000]?

• 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)

• Data and Lor -- Star Trek: The Next Generation

see also Science fiction

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