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Waldo, a short story by Robert Heinlein, that gave its name to a popular nickname for remote manipulators. Walking robot, a robot capable of locomotion by walking. Owing to the difficulties of balance, two-legged walking robots have so far been rare and most walking robots have used insect-like multilegged walking gaits.
"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.
Panzerhund, a deadly canine-looking robot employed by the Nazis in the Wolfenstein games from the 2009 game onward. Servo, a transforming robot emergency-response dog from Transformers: Rescue Bots. The main villain of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) has two deadly robot dogs she named Jet and Bennie after the song of her idol Elton John.
List of computer names in science fiction Archived 8 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine – also includes androids, robots and aliens; Robot Hall of Fame at CMU – with fictional inductees HAL-9000 and R2-D2; Jokes about computers in science fiction Archived 19 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
Robots (2005 video game), a video game based on the animated film; Robot (video game series), a series of NES games that used the Robotic Operating Buddy accessory; Robot Entertainment, an American video game development company "The Robot", a nickname given to professional Super Smash Bros. player Jason Zimmerman
In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. The term is a clipped form of " android ", [ 1 ] a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. [ 2 ]
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This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.