History Main / AndroidsAndDetectives

[[folder: Film ]]
* ''Film/IRobot'', which is [[DolledUpInstallment loosely based]] on Creator/IsaacAsimov's work.

* In ''Film/TheodoreRex'', cyborgs and dinosaurs are commonplace. The main characters are a dinosaur and a cyborg (played by Creator/WhoopiGoldberg) who are BuddyCops.

[[folder: Literature ]]
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's Robot Trilogy, starting with ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', are the UrExample of this trope. These feature Earth detective Elijah Baley teaming with R. Daneel Olivaw, one of the very first "humaniform robots" - realistic-looking androids. Lije and Daneel are partners in the first book and remain good friends throughout the rest of the series, but each book of the trilogy examines a different facet of the relationship between robots and humans at a societal level.
** As the UrExample, it established many of the conventions of this trope, despite the lack of many traditional CyberPunk elements (unsurprising, as the book was written before the advent of microcomputers, let alone the Internet).

[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

[[folder: Podcasts]]

[[folder: Video Games ]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', Nick Valentine is ''both'': He's a (self-aware) [[FlawedPrototype old-model]] synth who has the neural copy of a pre-war police officer, and has a hard-boiled film-noir style detective persona (and a [[UncannyValley significant amount of missing skin coverings]]).

[[folder: Web Comics ]]

[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'' had compudroid!Watson.

* Arguably the Chief in the ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' cartoon. A few episodes show him to have at one point had a robot body (which he describes as 'useless') and was Carmen's partner before she became a thief.

* One of the main characters in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' is an android working for the police, who is teamed up with a grizzled cop to solve murders.

* ''Mann & Machine''
* ''Series/HolmesAndYoyo'' is one of the (if not ''the'') earliest TV examples, as it ran from 1976-77.

* In ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'', the eponymous J is a large stoic android always ready to hand ut an epigram on what it means to be a man, who works with the 'cool' and laid back Daisuke (Dice). Collectively they form the investigative team of the Special Services Bureau in the city of Judoh.
* ''Manga/AstroBoy'': Though not technically [[BuddyCopShow cop buddies]], Astro's crime fighting often leads him to work alongside [[DaChief Inspector]] [[NobleBigotWithABadge Tawashi]]. And by "works alongside" I mean [[TeethClenchedTeamwork "argues with"]]. ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'', Creator/NaokiUrasawa's re-take on one of the story arcs in the original manga, has Gesicht filling in both the detective and the robot role.

* ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' has the uneasy alliance between the imperial guard and the brothers of the sacred grove (not technically robots, but magically-animated puppets with many robot-like mannerisms).

* The premise of ''ComicBook/{{Darkminds}}'' has detective Nagawa paired up with android Akane Nakiko (well, officially she's a cyborg, but it's more a matter of being an android with some biological components) to solve the "Paradox" murders [[spoiler:which turn out to have been purpetrated by one of Nakiko's prototypes]].

* The sixth book in the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' series, ''One of our Thursdays is Missing'', has the fictional Thursday and her newfound clockwork butler Sprockett investigate an accident.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The Robots of Death" has a subplot revolving around an apparently unrelated human and robot (Poul and D84), who turn out to be a buddy cop team there to identify which person on the sandminer is secretly a terrorist. Unfortunately Poul's UncannyValley {{Phobia}} causes him to have a meltdown and D84 dies in a HeroicSacrifice to protect the Doctor.

* Two of the hunters in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'', Bucket and Cabot, used to be partners in the Hub Marshalls. By the events of the game they've been retired for some time, but the mutual respect they formed had them stick together as Planet Tamers.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': Captain Fanzone could be this to the Autobots. His CatchPhrase is "This is why I hate machines," although he eventually develops a grudging respect for the Autobots. When he's actually paired with an Autobot he grumbles, but does his job like a pro.

* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'', sorta. Less Android and more HollywoodCyborg; less Detective and more SWAT/Counterterrorism. Besides the Deunan–Briareos pairing, there is also the Deunan–Hitomi pairing; Deunan is initially shocked that Hitomi is a bioroid (artificial human).

* The Creator/AlanDeanFoster novel 'Greenthieves' deals with a detective who's paired with a singularly perverted 'humaniform' android, as well as a snarky ([[AndIMustScream if only in his mind]]) Minder, basically a floating, orb-shaped AI.

* ''Holmes and Yo-Yo'' is one of the (if not ''the'') earliest TV examples, as it ran from 1976-77.

'''Sonny:''' Can you?

* Arguably the Chief in the ''WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego'' cartoon. A few episodes show him to have at one point had a robot body (which he describes as 'useless') and was Carmen's partner before she had a face heel turn.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' is a prime example. You can choose how you treat him, so you can either be good pals or you can be a total asshole to him.
%%* ''VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}''

* ''Automata'', a ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/12/ sub-comic]].

A lot of times this leads to someone asking WhatMeasureIsANonHuman.

* ''GiantRobo'' includes an android detective.

* Joey from ''{{Series/Friends}}'' gets a gig as the human half of the TV detective team "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E."
* ''{{Series/Eureka}}'' by way of Jack Carter and Andy in one episode. Andy is back, [[spoiler: as Jack's permanent deputy, Jo is now head of security at Global Dynamics]], as of season 4.

* ''{{Holmes and Yo-yo}}''. It's one of the (if not ''the'') earliest TV examples, as it ran from 1976-77.

* ''{{Series/Almost Human}}'' has Karl Urban teaming up with a {{Main/Super Prototype}} android partner. It's either law or department policy that ''all'' detectives must have an android partner, though most of them prefer the emotionless MX line.

* Arguably the Chief in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego}}'' cartoon. A few episodes show him to have at one point had a robot body (which he describes as 'useless') and was Carmen's partner before she had a face heel turn.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Fallout 4]]'', Nick Valentine is ''both'': He's a (self-aware) [[FlawedPrototype old-model]] synth who has the neural copy of a pre-war police officer, and has a hard-boiled film-noir style detective persona (and a [[UncannyValley significant amount of missing skin coverings]]).

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout4}} Fallout 4]]'', Nick Valentine is ''both'': He's a (self-aware) [{FlawedPrototype old-model]] synth who has the neural copy of a pre-war police officer, and has a hard-boiled film-noir style detective persona (and a [[UncannyValley significant amount of missing skin coverings]]).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout4}}'', Nick Valentine is ''both'': He's a (self-aware) [{FlawedPrototype old-model]] synth who has the neural copy of a pre-war police officer, and has a hard-boiled film-noir style detective persona (and a [[UncannyValley significant amount of missing skin coverings]]).

[[folder: Comics ]]
* The comic ''TheSurrogates'' is definitely noir and cyberpunk, as well as the movie adaptation.
* ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' has the uneasy alliance between the imperial guard and the brothers of the sacred grove (not technically robots, but magically-animated puppets with many robot-like mannerisms).
* In ''TopTen'', android cop Joe Pi has to deal with several cyber-phobic colleagues, including his new partner Irma Geddon.
* The premise of ''{{Darkminds}}'' has detective Nagawa paired up with android Akane Nakiko (well, officially she's a cyborg, but it's more a matter of being an android with some biological components) to solve the "Paradox" murders [[spoiler:which turn out to have been purpetrated by one of Nakiko's prototypes]].

%%* Creator/OsamuTezuka's ''Anime/Metropolis''

[[folder: Anime and Manga ]]
* ''Anime/TheBigO'' episode "Eyewitness", which teams recurring [[FriendOnTheForce Military Policeman]] Dan Dastun with robot detective R. Freddy O'Reilly. And to a lesser extent, ''Anime/TheBigO'' in general, starring [[RobotGirl R. Dorothy Waynewright]] and Roger Smith.
** "Eyewitness" is a full-episode homage to Asimov's Robot Trilogy, mentioned below.
* ''OsamuTezukasMetropolis''

* In ''HeatGuyJ'', the eponymous J is a large stoic android always ready to hand ut an epigram on what it means to be a man, who works with the 'cool' and laid back Daisuke (Dice). Collectively they form the investigative team of the Special Services Bureau in the city of Judoh.

* ''{{Armitage III}}'' plays this straight, down to the "I hate technology" exchange.
* ''{{Appleseed}}'', sorta. Less Android and more HollywoodCyborg; less Detective and more SWAT/Counterterrorism.
** Besides the Deunan–Briareos pairing, there is also the Deunan–Hitomi pairing; Deunan is initially shocked that Hitomi is a bioroid (artificial human).

* 1973's ''RobotDetective'' had this going, though it hewed closer to the action-based {{Tokusatsu}} style common at the time.

* ''FutureCop'': based on ''Brillo'', but without giving Bova or Ellison any credit, or payment, until after they sued.
* The sadly short-lived ''TotalRecall2070'' (which always seemed more of a Film/BladeRunner spin-off somehow) paired senior detective David Hume with [[WetwareCPU Alpha Class]] android Farve.