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. This list is intended for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a humanlike or mobile form. It shows how the concept has developed in the human imagination through history.
Robots and androids have frequently been depicted or described in works of fiction. The word "robot" itself comes from a work of fiction, Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 and first performed in 1921.
Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870)
The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms.[1] Named robots in the play are Marius, Sulla, Radius, Primus, Helena, and Damon. The play introduced and popularized the term "robot". Čapek's robots are biological machines that are assembled, as opposed to grown or born.
The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
From 600BC onward, legends of talking bronze and clay statues coming to life have been a regular occurrence in the works of classical authors such as Homer, Plato, Pindar, Tacitus, and Pliny. In Book 18 of the Iliad, Hephaestus the god of all mechanical arts, was assisted by two moving female statues made from gold – "living young damsels, filled with minds and wisdoms". Another legend has Hephaestus being commanded by Zeus to create the first woman, Pandora, out of clay. The myth of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, tells of a lonely man who sculpted his ideal woman, Galatea, from ivory, and promptly fell in love with her after the goddess Aphrodite brought her to life.
The 5th-century BCE Chinese text, the Liezi, contains a description of a humanoid machine which can sing and dance like a human. The automaton is presented to King Mu of Zhou by its inventor, but it offends the king by winking at court ladies and trying to flirt with them, so the inventor disassembles it to show the court that it is a machine. The king sees that it has artificial analogues of human organs, which are made of leather, wood, glue, and paint, and each fulfill necessary functions for its operation.
Brazen heads, attributed to numerous scholars involved in the introduction of Arabian science to medieval Europe, particularly Roger Bacon (13th century)
Golem – The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, is mentioned in the Talmud. (16th century)
Talus, "iron man" who mechanically helps Arthegall dispense justice in The Faerie Queene, the epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590
Olimpia, automaton who captivates the hero Nathanael so much he wishes to marry her in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
"The New Frankenstein" by Ernest Edward Kellett (1899), in which an inventor creates an "anti-phonograph" that according to the narrator "can give the appropriate answer to every question I put", and installs in it a robotic female body that "will guide herself, answer questions, talk and eat like a rational being, in fact, perform the part of a society lady." The android proves convincing enough to fool two suitors who wish to marry her.[2]
A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce (first published in the San Francisco Examiner on 16 Aug. 1899)
Early 1900s
The "Metal Men" automata designed by a Thomas Edison-like scientist in Gustave Le Rouge's La Conspiration des Milliardaires and two sequels (1899–1903).
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921), by Karel Čapek – credited with coining the term "robot". In its original Czech, "robota" means forced labour, and is derived from "rab", meaning "slave." R.U.R. depicts the first elaborate depiction of a machine take-over. Čapek's robots can also be seen as the first androids: they are in fact organic.
Gaston Leroux's 1923 La Poupée Sanglante (The Bloody Doll) and La Machine à Assassiner (The Murdering Machine). The lead character, Bénédict Masson, is wrongly accused of murder and guillotined. His brain is later attached to an automaton created by scientist Jacques Cotentin, and Masson goes on to track and punish those who caused his death.
Le Singe (The Monkey) (1925), by Maurice Renard and Albert Jean, imagined the creation of artificial lifeforms through the process of "radiogenesis", a sort of human electrocopying or cloning process.
The Metal Giants (1926), by Edmond Hamilton, in which a computer brain who runs on atomic power creates an army of 300-foot-tall robots.
Metropolis (1927), by Thea von Harbou, adapted by Fritz Lang on film, featuring character Maria and her robot double.
Automata (1929), by S. Fowler Wright, about machines doing the humans' jobs before wiping them out.
1930s
The "Professor Jameson" series by Neil R. Jones (early 1930s) featured human and alien minds preserved in robot bodies. It was reprinted in five Ace paperbacks in the late 1960s: The Planet of the Double Sun, The Sunless World, Space War, Twin Worlds and Doomsday on Ajiat.
Zat the Martian robot, protagonist of John Wyndham's short story "The Lost Machine" (1932)
Human cyborgs in Revolt of the Pedestrians by David H. Keller (1932)
Jay Score ("J20"), emergency pilot of the Earth-to-Venus freighter Upskadaska City (colloquially called "Upsydaisy") in "Jay Score", a short story by Eric Frank Russell in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction (1941)
Alojzy Gąbka in Akademia pana Kleksa by Jan Brzechwa (1946), a mischievous mechanical doll able to pass as a human boy, and the main adversary of the protagonist, Mr Blot.
Astro Boy, series by Osamu Tezuka (published in Japan but available in English), an atomic-powered robot of 100,000 horsepower built to resemble a little boy, most specifically Tobio, the deceased son of Dr. Tenma. When not in school, Astro Boy spent his time dealing with robots & aliens. (1952)
The Fury, a large steel robot that acts as jailer and executioner, in Henry Kuttner's "Two-Handed Engine" (1955)
Zane Gort, a robot novelist in the short story "The Silver Eggheads" by Fritz Leiber (1959)
SHROUD (Synthetic Human, Radiation OUtput Determined) and SHOCK (Synthetic Human Object, Casualty Kinematics), the sentient test dummies in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon (1963)
Trurl and Klapaucius, the robot geniuses of The Cyberiad (Cyberiada, 1967; translated by Michael Kandel 1974) – collection of humorous stories about the exploits of Trurl and Klapaucius, "constructors" among robots
Roy Batty, Pris, Rachael and several other Nexus-6 model androids. "Androids, fully organic in nature – the products of genetic engineering – and so human-like that they can only be distinguished by psychological tests; some of them don't even know that they're not human." – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (1968)
Mech Eagles from the novel Logan's Run (1967), robotic eagles designed to track and kill people who refuse to die at age 21
Richard Daniel, an intensely loyal, old, un-remodeled robot, belonging to one family for generations, in "All the Traps of Earth" by Clifford Simak. When the last of his entire extended family of owners died, after 200 years, he is required by law to be disassembled; humans who made the law are still threatened by robots who are superior to them in functionality. He is sentient enough to take exception to that policy.
Jenkins, the robot who served generations of the Webster family for nearly a thousand years, then the dogs modified by one of the Websters, dogs capable of reading and speech, who inherited the earth when humans left it by various methods, through all of the stories contained in the collection "City" by Clifford Simak. Humans entered "the sleep", or had their bodies converted to Jovian lifeforms to live on Jupiter.
1970s
Personoids, in Stanisław Lem's book Próżnia Doskonała (1971). This is a collection of book reviews of nonexistent books, and was translated into English by Michael Kandel as A Perfect Vacuum (1983). "Personoids do not need any human-like physical body; they are rather an abstraction of functions of human mind, they live in computers."
The Stepford Wives (1972) by Ira Levin – "The masculine plot to replace women with perfect looking, obedient robot replicas"
Solo from Robert Mason's novels Weapon (1989) and Solo (1993) (Note, the 1996 film titled Solo is based solely on the first novel, Weapon.)
Sheen, a female android mysteriously programmed to guard and love Stile, a serf on the planet Proton, in the sci-fi/fantasy series Apprentice Adept (1980–82) by Piers Anthony.
Spofforth, the dean of New York University in Mockingbird by Walter Tevis.
Jay-Dub and Dee Model in Ken MacLeod's The Stone Canal (1996)
Dorfl, and other Discworld golems deliberately described in terms reminiscent of an Asimovian robot, in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay (1996) and subsequent Discworld novels
2000s
Cassandra Kresnov, in a series by Joel Shepherd (2001)
Italian film The Mechanical Man (1921), a movie which shows a battle between robots
The Mechanical Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in A Clever Dummy, a Sennettsilentshort dating from 1917 when the term "robot" did not yet exist. The dummy does not operate independently but performs limited movements when wired to a control box.
The Automaton, a weaponized robot in The Master Mystery, a 1918 theatrical serial film starring Harry Houdini, featuring a fully realized mechanical man (implemented as a costumed actor)
The Juggernaut, a 7 foot tall robot programmed to be an assassin in the film serial The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
Arbeitsmaschine and Kampfmaschine, working robots and fighting robots in the German movie Der Herr der Welt (1934) by Harry Piel; the mad scientist Professor Wolf (Walter Franck) is eventually killed by his fighting robot
Black Beauty, a mechanical racehorse in the 1935 Happy Harmonies short The Old Plantation
Muranian Robots in The Phantom Empire (1935), a 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combining the Western, musical and fantasy genres.
Huey, Dewey and Louie, drones in Silent Running (1972) – notable as the first movie in which non-humanoid robots were made mobile by manning them with amputees
V.I.N.CENT (Vital Information Necessary CENTralized), B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), Maximillian and the androids made out of humans in The Black Hole (1979)
AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion), the robot scout in the film Red Planet (2000) who gets stuck in military mode and destroys the human crew of the spaceship
Many robots, including David, the lead character, in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); based on the "Supertoys" of Brian Aldiss' short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long"
Kay-Em 14, female android in the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th franchise, Jason X (2002)
Spyder robots, used by the PreCrime police force to locate and identify "perpetrators" in Minority Report (2002)
Tet, a tetrahedron in Earth's orbit that enslaved the human population, and cloned workers to maintain drones that keep humans from using the generators in Oblivion (2013)
Jaegers, man-made, 250-ft war machines built to fight giant monsters called kaiju, who emerge from a portal in the Pacific Ocean to attack humanity, in Pacific Rim (2013)
Dr. Wallace Damon, chief of a research group of investigation about UFOs from The Signal (2014)
Sheriff Not-a-Robot, a robotic sheriff from the Old West and the Micro Managers, Lord Business' henchmen in The Lego Movie (2014)
Baymax, an inflatable healthcare companion robot in Big Hero 6 (2014)
TARS and CASE, adaptable rectangle robots in Interstellar (2014)
Hymie the Robot, a robot originally created by KAOS an organization of evil, but turned to the side of good and niceness by CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart; first appeared in episode 19, "Back to the Old Drawing Board"
K9, the Doctor's robot dog companion with encyclopaedic knowledge and vast computer intelligence, created by Professor Marius and introduced in the serial The Invisible Enemy (1977)
The Seers of the Oracle in the serial Underworld (1978)
K9 MkII, the second version of the Doctor's robot dog companion, introduced in the serial The Ribos Operation (1978)
The Polyphase Avatron, the Captain's robot parrot in the serial The Pirate Planet (1978)
The Taran Androids, including an android duplicate of Romana, in the serial The Androids of Tara (1978)
The Movellans, android enemies of the Daleks, in the serial Destiny of the Daleks (1979)
Numerous android characters in the Japanese superhero series Kikaider (1972), including the title character
S.A.M. (Super Automated Machine) the "perfect machine" robot in Sesame Street (1969–present), introduced in episode 0406 (1972)
A robot double of Major Fred Sloane in the episode "Day of the Robot" (1974)
A robot double of Oscar Goldman in the episode "Return of the Robot Maker" (1975)
Sasquatch, the robot watchdog of marooned aliens in the episodes "The Secret of Bigfoot – Part 1" (1976), "The Secret of Bigfoot – Part 2" (1976), "The Return of Bigfoot – Part 1" (1976) and "Bigfoot V" (1977)
The Fembots and a robot double of Oscar Goldman in the episode "Kill Oscar – Part II" (1976)
Death Probe, a Soviet Venusian robot probe in the episodes "Death Probe – Part 1" (1977), "Death Probe – Part 2" (1977), "Return of the Death Probe – Part 1" (1978) and "Return of the Death Probe – Part 2" (1978)
Sasquatch, the robot watchdog of marooned aliens in the episode "The Return of Bigfoot – Part 2" (1976)
The Fembots in the episodes "Kill Oscar" (1976), "Kill Oscar – Part III" (1976), "Fembots in Las Vegas – Part 1" (1977) and "Fembots in Las Vegas – Part 2" (1977)
Yo-Yo, a.k.a. Geogory Yoyonovitch in Holmes & Yo-Yo (1976)
Isac the Robot, a robot created by Fred Haber in 1980 from Old Chatham, NY. Inspired by Isaac Asimov and R2D2, Isac is a 4' tall robot made out of molded fiberglass, recycled electronic parts, a clear round head made from a salad bowl, light-up eyes, moving arms and mechanical fingers. Isac was controlled by an exterior remote and vocalized by use of a tape recorder. It had the ability to pick up objects, move back and forth, spin and interact with its audience. Isac was featured on PM Magazine and as an attraction at robotic tradeshows in the 1980s.
Metal Mickey, the Wilberforces' household robot in Metal Mickey (1980–1983)
The Orbots—Tor, Bort, Bo, Boo, Crunch, and Ohno from Mighty Orbots (1984)
An enemy Bioroid pilot was described by a scientist in the Masters story (1985) of the Robotech science fiction series as a very advanced android with some sort of bio-electric device "as an artificial soul." Robotech adapted this story from Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross Japanese animated series (1984), in which these pilots are humans with mechanical implants instead of androids with artificial souls.
T-Bob, a droid developed and owned by Scott Trakker, from the animated television series M.A.S.K., closely resembling R2-D2, and perhaps even a direct successor as an adapted Tx-series Industrial Automaton astromech droid, as implied by the show's storyline.
F.L.U.F.F.I., the Bionic Six's pet/family-member gorilla-bot and Dr. Scarab's Cyphrons
Material for the Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987) and Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2007) sequels described a character named Janice Em as a "sexy robot" with an "android body." JANICE is an acronym (according to the voice actress Chase Masterson in the video: The Face behind the Voice mini-documentary) which means: Junctioned Artificial Neuro-Integrated Cybernetic Entity.
Lil Bulb, robot with a light bulb for head, created by Gyro Gearloose on DuckTales (1987–1989)
There were many robots featured in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including the Foot Soldier ninjas, Metalhead the robotic turtle, MACC the cowboy robot from the future, the Turtle Terminator, REX-1 the robot cop, Chrome Dome, the Pretendicon, and more.
D.E.C.K.S., a talking robot with a VHS tape for a head, from the 1991 Disney Channel series Jump, Rattle, and Roll, formerly Wake, Rattle, and Roll (1990)
Alpha and Omega from the TV series The Flash (1990–1991) – Alpha, a government constructed female android (gynoid) assassin that develops a conscience, determines that killing is wrong, and wishes to be free from government control. Omega is a government-built android assassin reprogrammed to find Alpha
The Bots Master, a syndicated animated series about a young inventor named Ziv "ZZ" Zulander with robot friends and inventions, such as the B.O.Y.Z.Z. (Brain Operated Young Zygoetopic Zoids). Along with his younger sister, they fight the Robotic Megafact Corporation and its line of 3A robots. (1993)
Ted Buchanon, a robot, made in the 1950s by a sickly inventor also named Ted Buchanan, who marries women resembling the wife of his maker, from "Ted" (S2E11, 8 December 1997)
Warrenbot, a robotic duplicate that Warren Mears made of himself, from "Villains" (S6E22, 14 May 2002)
Bender the robot, as well as Flexo, Robot Santa, Kwanzaa-Bot, Calculon, Robot Devil, Clamps and other assorted robots including the Epsilon Rho Rho fraternity robots in the animated seriesFuturama (1999)
Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, the Noo-Noo, the Tubby Toaster, the Tubby Custard Machine, the Tubby Sponge Cases, the Tubby Phone, the Tubby Table, the Tubby Seats and the Tubby Beds from Teletubbies
Paperboy 2000, the paper delivering robot vehicle from the sitcom series Get a Life
Azaka and Kamidake, robot Jurai Guardians who serve and protect Jurai Princess Ayeka, Yukinojo, the robot pilot for Mihoshi's space shuttle, and Zero, an android replicant of the space pirate Ryoko, are the most notable robots in the Tenchi Muyo! TV series.
Andromeda, (a.k.a Drommie) the android "avatar" of the artificial intelligence operating the warship of the same name in Andromeda (2000–2005)
Ant Drones, Flying Termites, Beetle Drones and various other robots from the Samurai Jack series (2001–2004)
Back-Pack, Gears' main partner from the series Static Shock. It is a semi-independent, sophisticated AI robot that acts as a scouting robot, a computer, machine hacker, code breaker, alarm system, police scanner, tracer, weapons unit and restraining device. Back-Pack gets its name from what it resembles when it "heels", with the body being the bag and its legs the backpack straps. Back-Pack is rather significant because he can link up to Gear's thoughts, giving Gear technopathy (2000–2004)
C.H.E.E.S.E., a backronym for Computerized Humanoid Electronically Enhanced Secret Enforcer, is the main character of a fictional crime/adventure science-fiction television show which aired from Season 6 to Season 7 of Friends.
Satan's Robot, usually in service for Dr. Chaotica but impressionable enough to sometimes work for good, in episodes of Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001) when the holodeck program "Captain Proton" is run
Simon, a humanoid robot with the mind scanned from a dead little boy with AI technology, from The Outer Limits episode "Simon Says" (2000)
Spydroids from Totally Spies! Undercover (2005)
Skyler, Tyler, and Wyler from Totally Spies Undercover! (2006)
Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the largest mecha in anime measuring 52.8 billion light years tall according to the official guide book from GAINAX (仕事魂); after transforming into a drill its length is multiplied 10 times
Yui, Takaya's android maid from Koharu Biyori (2007–2008)
Isla and other Giftias from Plastic Memories. Giftias are androids that appear and behave nearly identical to humans, even with convincing emotions; however, they have a definite and short lifespan (less than ten years), causing problems for the humans who have established emotional entanglements with them.
Coheed (the Beast), Cambria (The Knowledge), Jesse (The Inferno), Mayo Deftinwolf, and a number of other IRO-Bot "children", who are genetically altered humans with superhuman powers and robotic qualities (i.e., can be taken apart and terminated), from the graphic novel series The Amory Wars written by Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. The characters and plotlines are also incorporated into the band's music.
Jeremy Feeple and Professor Steamhead were replaced with badly constructed, unconvincing robot doubles (which eventually exploded) in an early issue of Ninja High School.
Irona, the robot maid of Richie Rich, the main character in a comic book and cartoon series (1961)
The Mekka Men, the female android Mimi, and an android Mickey Mouse lookalike, all created by Pegleg Pete's inventor prisoner Professor Numbspiegel in the Disney comic strip "Mickey Mouse and the World of Tomorrow" by Floyd Gottfredson and Bill Walsh (1944)
The Metal Men, a band of 6 robots, each of a different metal element, created to fight a nuclear menace, from DC's Showcase #37 (1962)
The domestico elettrodomestico, one of the more striking robots in Disney comics, looking like a clown, from the comic "Zio Paperone e il domestico elettrodomestico" by Guido Martina and Giuseppe Perego (1967)
Robbie, a recurring robot constructed by inventor Knox in German series Fix und Foxi, first drawn by Massimo Fecchi (1976)
Robots from the planet Des from the Polish series Bogowie z kosmosu (Gods from the Space), written by Arnold Mostowicz and Alfred Górny and illustrated by Bogusław Polch (1978)
RanXerox, a mechanical creature made from Xerox photocopier parts, by Italian artists Stefano Tamburini and Tanino Liberatore; first appeared in 1978, in Italian, in the magazine Cannibale
Uèr, an "electro-chemical" android capable of human feelings, in the Italian comic book Milady 3000 by Magnus (1980)
Link is an android in a team of human agents in the Italian comics series Agenzia Alfa, published by Sergio Bonelli (1997–present; Nathan Never and Legs Weaver are on the same team, although having series of their own). Link's name could be a tribute to Adam Link. His look has some similarity to Star Trek's Data in an alternate timeline, except for a silver strip of hair on top of his head.
Alpha Hatsuseno, Kokone Takatsu, Maruko Maruko, Director Alpha Koumiishi (female robots) and Nai (a male robot) in the manga series Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano in Kodansha's monthly seinen magazine Afternoon (1994–2006)
Rin Asakura, Bathyscaphe and other robots, cyborgs and space vessels that look like humans in The World of Narue by Tomohiro Marukawa (1999–2012)
Chi and other Persocoms from the manga Chobits (2001–2002)
Kollege Blech from the comic strips of East German caricaturist Erich Schmitt (1965)
Robotman (1985) in the comic strip of the same name, which eventually became "Monty". Robotman left the strip and found happiness with his girlfriend Robota on another planet.
Robot Cartoons Cartoon catalog featuring the work of Dan Rosandich
Web comics
Anima: Age of the Robots (Anima) is an 18-chapter webcomic series depicting robots taking over the fictional planet of Anima, homeworld of talking animals.
Eve, a female android from Applegeeks, built using Apple Macintosh parts
Emotibot, a robot programmed to feel emotions, from Beaver and Steve
Evil Killer Death Spybot 5000 from Mark Shallow's Adventurers!, a robot originally designed to spy on the party, who eventually becomes a playable character
Ezekiel a.k.a. "Zeke", formerly known as the "X-bot", the anthropomorphisedXbox console from the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del
Fruit Fucker, a semi-sentient kitchen appliance in the webcomicPenny Arcade that has sex with fruit and ejaculates the juice
Carl Swangee, a sentient android from the Penny Arcade 'Automata' storyline
J-LB8/Jalea Bates in Melonpool, started as a robot, later became a human
Kleptobot, a supposedly Soviet-made robot programmed to steal anything and everything, from Joe and Monkey
Schniz, Fulker, CPDoom, and various background characters from Andrew Kauervane's[13]My God, Robots!
Machinima
Lopez, Church and Tex, characters from the Rooster Teeth machinima Red vs. Blue. Only Lopez is a true artificial life-form, as both Church and Tex existed only as ghosts ( later in the series through solid proof showed that they both are AI programs like O'Malley the whole time ). Both characters were blown up during the course of the series, existing from that point onward in robot bodies other than their originals. They possess mechanical bodies similar to Lopez in design.
Podcasts
Little Button Puss, character from Episode #310 of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast, played by John Gemberling. Little Button Puss, a.k.a. HPDP69-B, is a promotional robot built by Hewlett-Packard and is the first ever robot created with a fully sentient artificial intelligence, personality, and speaking function. It was designed by HP engineers for the express purpose of sexually pleasing humans. Comedy Bang! Bang! host Scott Aukerman was sent Little Button Puss as part of a promotional advertising campaign for the line of sex-robots. Little Button Puss looks like a metal dog, and has small flesh patches where its genitals are. Elsewhere, it's described as having the appearance of "nickel blue, gun metal". It is verified in the episode that Scott Aukerman lustily removed Little Button Puss' retractable genitals, threw them in a trash can, and then proceeded to use the HPDP69-B for its intended purpose. Afterwards, according to Comedy Bang! Bang! official canon, Aukerman looked back on the incident with shame. A complaint about the HPDP69-B is that for a sex-robot, "it looks too much like a metal dog". In a brief look into its past, Little Button Puss recounts an old romantic relationship with its long lost love, United Flight 93, who "died in the September 11th attacks".[14]
The Reploids of the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series, and Mega Man ZX, robots with the ability to think, feel, and make their own decisions, along with Mega Man X, the successor to the original Mega Man and the original basis for most Reploid's designs, and Zero, X's partner and the only Reploid not based on X.
Cait Sith, a fortune-telling robotic cat controlled via remote by a man named Reeve Teusti, from Final Fantasy VII. By extension, Cait Sith rides atop a giant, robotic moogle to which Cait Sith relays commands through a megaphone.
EDI (an artificial intelligence operating an android formerly named Dr. Eva), Harbinger, Sovereign, the Reapers, and the Geth, including Legion, from the Mass Effect series
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