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** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Trailmon Worm is a living Digimon train with the features of insects such as multiple eyes and a segmented body (serving as the "cars"). Beetlemon's Beast Hybrid Form mixes Beetlemon's humanoid beetle features with that of an army tank, with cannons in his hands and tracks instead of wheels.
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** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Trailmon Worm is a living Digimon train with the features of insects such as multiple eyes and a segmented body (serving as the "cars"). Beetlemon's Beast Hybrid Form Form, [=MetalKabuterimon=] mixes Beetlemon's humanoid beetle features with that of an army tank, with cannons in his hands and tracks instead of wheels.
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* Many toys of robot bugs have been made. Among the most popular examples being the Hexbugs, which are designed after ticks and minuscule bugs and are placed inside maces for them to complete.
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Can be considered a subtrope of StarfishRobots. Super-trope to LiteralSurveillanceBug, which specifically covers ones employed for espionage. Also compare to InsectoidAliens, MechanicalHorse and RobotDog. Larger specimens may overlap with SpiderTank.
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** The droideka, who serve as the Confederacy's [[EliteMooks elite heavy infantry]], look like mechanical scorpions, with a pair of twin blaster cannons instead of claws and a curved, forward-facing back plate with a sensor head that resembles a stinger tail. In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, they were modeled after their creators, a carnivorous InsectoidAlien species called the Colicoids.
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** The droideka, who serve as the Confederacy's [[EliteMooks elite heavy infantry]], look like mechanical scorpions, with a pair of twin blaster cannons instead of claws and a curved, forward-facing back plate with a sensor head that resembles a stinger tail. In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, they were modeled after their creators, a carnivorous InsectoidAlien species called the Colicoids.Colicoids (this fact got recanonized in the book ''Ultimate Star Wars'').
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Noxines used by [[BigBad Noximilien]] to harvest the titular {{Life Energy}} and surveil the protagonists.
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* ''Franchise/StarFox'': A number of enemies across the games are these, most notably the [[VideoGame/StarFoxAssault Aparoids]], which are an entire race of mechanical insects out to assimilate all life in the Lylat System.
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': A few of the various types of [[KillerRobot Mechon]] have very bug-like appearances, such as the M42 Scout Units or the M91/DOGMA
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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': The villain Mechanicles builds clockwork-themed robot insects to help in commiting his crimes.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' introduced the Dark Heart, an invasive nanite swarm super weapon who's drones took the form of robotic insects as they worked to consume all available resources of a planet.
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** The ''Prime'' incarnation of the Insecticons reinvents them as a swarm of hulking, insectoid bruisers that transform into equally gigantic rhinoceros beetles.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': While she lacks an outright beast form like Blackarachnia and the Insecticons, Airachnid has a very noticeable spider motif, from her [[SpiderLimbs additional legs]] right down to [[AllWebbedUp the webs]] she uses.
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** While she lacks an outright beast form like Blackarachnia and the Insecticons, Airachnid has a very noticeable spider motif, from her [[SpiderLimbs additional legs]] right down to [[AllWebbedUp the webs]] sheuses.uses.
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** While she lacks an outright beast form like Blackarachnia and the Insecticons, Airachnid has a very noticeable spider motif, from her [[SpiderLimbs additional legs]] right down to [[AllWebbedUp the webs]] she
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* ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun'': The planet Laoth is deliberately kept sterile, so its inhabitants created an ecosystem of robot life, including insects.
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* The ''[[Film/TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' has its own version of the Insecticons, which are Earth insect-sized drones used for espionage, search, and repair work.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The Cy-Bugs are a very literal example of the trope, as they're a swarm of bugs with technological characteristics.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Clockwords}}'': The rival inventor sends mechanical bugs that look like brown spiders and climb on bookshelves to steal the inventor's documents.
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* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': The level "Bugbot Factory", in which the player controls Spyro's dragonfly sidekick Sparx, features various robotic bugs as enemies. The final boss is a giant (from Sparx's perspective) mechanical centipede.
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** The droideka, who serve as the Confederacy's [[EliteMooks elite heavy infantry]], look like mechanical scorpions, with a pair of twin blaster cannons instead of claws and a curved, forward-facing back plate with a sensor head that resembles a stinger tail. In the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' continuity, they were modeled after their creators, a carnivorous InsectoidAlien species called the Colicoids.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Canoptek constructs created by the Necrons to act as {{Attack Drone}}s, and caretakers of their Tomb Worlds, are typically crafted to resemble extremely large insects. Beetles (Canoptic Scarabs), spiders (Canoptek Spyders) and centipiedes (Tomb Stalkers) are some of the more recognisable forms that these robotic creatures can take, but even the stranger looking constructs such as Canoptek Wraiths and Reanimators have forms based loosely on insectoid life (spider-snake and water strider-[[Literature/WarOfTheWorlds Martian tripod]] hybrids respectively).
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Canoptek constructs created by the Necrons to act as {{Attack Drone}}s, and caretakers of their Tomb Worlds, are typically crafted to resemble extremely large insects. Beetles (Canoptic Scarabs), spiders (Canoptek Spyders) and centipiedes centipedes (Tomb Stalkers) are some of the more recognisable forms that these robotic creatures can take, but even the stranger looking constructs such as Canoptek Wraiths and Reanimators have forms based loosely on insectoid life (spider-snake and water strider-[[Literature/WarOfTheWorlds Martian tripod]] hybrids respectively).
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* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': Each major species archetype has a type of robot patterned after it that is used to represent the machine intelligences it builds. As such, the insectoid model resembles a floating, mechanical arthropod. Notably, the plantoid model also uses a multi-legged, jointed form that brings arthropods to mind.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': Each With the ''Synthetic Dawn'' expansion, each major species archetype has a type of robot patterned (mammalian, fungoid, etc.) will build robots loosely themed after it that is used to represent the machine intelligences it builds.themselves. As such, the insectoid model resembles a floating, mechanical arthropod. Notably, However, the plantoid model and necroid models also uses a multi-legged, jointed form that brings arthropods to mind.use arthropod-like forms, standing on multiple legs.
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* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': One of [[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Anub'arak's]] skins turns him into a mecha-scarab.
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Can be considered a subtrope of StarfishRobots. Super-trope to LiteralSurveillanceBug, as it encompasses all kinds of robotic bugs, not just the ones employed for espionage. Also compare to InsectoidAliens, MechanicalHorse and RobotDog. Larger specimens may overlap with SpiderTank.
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Can be considered a subtrope of StarfishRobots. Super-trope to LiteralSurveillanceBug, as it encompasses all kinds of robotic bugs, not just the which specifically covers ones employed for espionage. Also compare to InsectoidAliens, MechanicalHorse and RobotDog. Larger specimens may overlap with SpiderTank.
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* ''Starblazer Adventures'': In the Mindjammer setting, the Venu forces use spider-shaped war robots that can climb walls and are adept at moving in zero-G environments.
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* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': The fourth volume features arachnid robots with distinct abdomens that are almost entirely made up of a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and its absurdly large ammo drum.
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* The Bureau of Precrime from ''Film/MinorityReport'' can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
* The Bureau of Precrime from ''Film/MinorityReport'' can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
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* The Bureau of Precrime from ''Film/MinorityReport'' can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': Ivan Ooze's Ecto-Morphicon Titans, Hornitor and Scorpitron, are robotic bugs. As their names imply, they are based on a hornet and scorpion, respectively.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'': The Bureau of Precrime can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'': The Bureau of Precrime can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
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* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "War Of The Coprophages", the inhabitants of a small town are seemingly being attacked and killed by cockroaches. The deaths all turn out to have mundane explanations, but they do discover something more bizarre: some of the cockroaches in town prove to be robots with metal exoskeletons, which an expert in the field declares to be far more advanced than anything he's ever seen. It's never confirmed where they come from, but Mulder suspects they may be alien surveillance drones.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E12WarOfTheCoprophages War of the Coprophages]]", the inhabitants of a small town are seemingly being attacked and killed by cockroaches. The deaths all turn out to have mundane explanations, but they do discover something more bizarre: some of the cockroaches in town prove to be robots with metal exoskeletons, which an expert in the field declares to be far more advanced than anything he's ever seen. It's never confirmed where they come from, but Mulder suspects they may be alien surveillance drones.
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* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Shows up with a few characters, but the ones that fit the description best are the Insecticons, Kickback, Bombshell, and Skrapnel. According to their bios they may even be a separate species from normal Cybertronians.
** Transmetals and Transmetals 2 increased the robotic appearances of Waspinator, Black Arachnia, and Tarantulus from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars''.
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* ''Franchise/MassEffect:'' The Collectors are formerly members of the insectoid [[spoiler:Prothean]] race that were given UnwillingRoboticisation to serve as soldiers for the Reapers. In addition, they all use a number of insectoid and insect-like weapons, such as "Seeker" swarms which bite and immobilize their targets without killing them, allowing the Collectors to abduct subjects en masse for experimentation and [[spoiler:Reaper conversion]].
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* ''Series/StargateSG1'' features the Replicators, who are primarily found as a swarm of insect- or spider-shaped things composed of thousands of metal 'blocks'. Each block in turn contains millions of AppliedPhlebotinum circuits, allowing the Replicators to not only reassemble themselves or combine with each other in a myriad frightening ways, but interface with and take control of anyone else's technology with truly terrifying speed. When moving in large numbers (and they're ''always'' in large numbers, or will be very quickly) they make a very distinctive metallic chittering sounds. In any episode where that sound is heard, expect things to rapidly get worse.
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Sometimes in fiction there's an overlap of bugs and machines being mixed into one new type of being: Robo-Bugs. These robo-bugs have what you call the best of both worlds: multiple limbs and visors/eyes, sometimes they have wings and other body parts that only bugs have. These critters usually will appear being employed as {{Mecha Mook}}s by the villains or have antagonistic roles, though that does not mean that necessarily all examples will be evil-aligned or antagonistic.
Generally speaking, the main reason for the trope's usage might be rooted in that both bugs and robots are both usually seen as uncanny by many people and that the bugs' different anatomy to vertebrates might make them look off compared to all other living beings. Sometimes an inversion might be found with bugs which have robot-like characteristics or become cyborgs, though these tend to overlap with other tropes.
Another reason for this trope's usage is that one of the main issues with building robots is stability: two-legged robots tend to tip over very easily, and while wheels and tracks are more stable they also don't do too well on uneven terrain. Multiple legs solve both issues at once, and most real-life robots tend to have four or six walking limbs.
Can be considered a subtrope of StarfishRobots. Super-trope to LiteralSurveillanceBug, as it encompasses all kinds of robotic bugs, not just the ones employed for espionage. Also compare to InsectoidAliens, MechanicalHorse and RobotDog. Larger specimens may overlap with SpiderTank.
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* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': In "The Second Renaissance," the Machines are first shown as humanoid robots designed for simple labor; as they attain sentience and begin forming a more complex society, their forms evolve into the more efficient, insectoid Machines seen in the Matrix Trilogy.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Many Digimon in the franchise are robotic-based with a few individuals standing out in the anime adaptations:
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Trailmon Worm is a living Digimon train with the features of insects such as multiple eyes and a segmented body (serving as the "cars").
** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': Ballistamon is a humanoid robotic Digimon who's modeled after hercules beetles.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': The fourth volume features arachnid robots with distinct abdomens that are almost entirely made up of a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and its absurdly large ammo drum.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The Cy-Bugs are a very literal example of the trope, as they're a swarm of bugs with technological characteristics.
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* The Bureau of Precrime from ''Film/MinorityReport'' can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. As Neo is walking through the machine city, a number of insect-like robots crawl out of the walls and follow him.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In the prequel trilogy, the Confederacy's droid armies include a number of arthropod-like models.
** Spider droids are spherical robots with four jointed legs arranged equidistantly around their midsections and powerful laser guns mounted on their fronts (for the small ones) or undersides (for the large ones).
** Crab droids have larger, jointed legs and rust-red, exoskeleton-like plating. They're mostly melee fighters that grapple and beat at their enemies.
* Ivan Ooze's Ecto-Morphicon Titans from ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', Hornitor and Scorpitron are robotic bugs. As their names imply, they are based on a hornet and scorpion, respectively.
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Bug Fighter is the standard Yeerk combat ship, resembling a headless cockroach with two spear-like protusions for energy weapons.
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*''Series/BlackMirror'': In "[[Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation Hated in the Nation]]", after the bees [[ExtinctInTheFuture went nearly extinct]], many countries utilized Automatic Drone Insects (ADI for short) to carry out pollination. These drones are capable of self-replicating and building hives on their own, with these hives featuring 3D printing devices (which falls short, as they are unable to make honey). They are also used by government [[SinisterSurveillance to spy on the populace]], and were hacked to kill anyone who was voted to be killed on Twitter through the use of the #[=DeathTo=] hashtag. [[spoiler:The real targets are not the hashtag targets, but those who ''used'' the hashtag.]]
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "War Of The Coprophages", the inhabitants of a small town are seemingly being attacked and killed by cockroaches. The deaths all turn out to have mundane explanations, but they do discover something more bizarre: some of the cockroaches in town prove to be robots with metal exoskeletons, which an expert in the field declares to be far more advanced than anything he's ever seen. It's never confirmed where they come from, but Mulder suspects they may be alien surveillance drones.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Clockwork horrors are mechanical spider-like constructs about two feet across that live in large swarms, where their role and status is determined by the metal they're made out of -- electrum ones are soldiers, gold ones commanders, platinum ones generals, and a single adamantine horror rules the swarm. They reproduce by consuming metal and using it to construct new swarm members. They're extremely efficient at this; if a swarm is allowed to grow unchecked, it can quickly strip a city of metal and go on to threaten the rest of the country.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a number of this, mostly typed as artifact creatures and as insects; they're especially common in the biomechanical planes of Phyrexia and Mirrodin. There's some considerable variety, both in constitution (clockwork creatures, robots and magically-animated metal are all present) and in species ([[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/257/jhoiras-timebug ants]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/153/clockwork-beetle beetles]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/249/brass-gnat gnats]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/10e/333/mantis-engine mantises]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/5dn/122/ferropede millipedes]] and [[https://scryfall.com/card/som/198/rust-tick ticks]] are all represented).
* ''Starblazer Adventures'': In the Mindjammer setting, the Venu forces use spider-shaped war robots that can climb walls and are adept at moving in zero-G environments.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Canoptek constructs created by the Necrons to act as {{Attack Drone}}s, and caretakers of their Tomb Worlds, are typically crafted to resemble extremely large insects. Beetles (Canoptic Scarabs), spiders (Canoptek Spyders) and centipiedes (Tomb Stalkers) are some of the more recognisable forms that these robotic creatures can take, but even the stranger looking constructs such as Canoptek Wraiths and Reanimators have forms based loosely on insectoid life (spider-snake and water strider-[[Literature/WarOfTheWorlds Martian tripod]] hybrids respectively).
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': The Digital Bug archetype has trait of this, as the bugs in the archetype have a lot of digital-covered body parts and are mechanical in appearance. They also simultaneously reference how errors in computers are called "bugs" as their lore has them as inhabitants of the inside of a computer.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'':
** The ''Insectoids'' run centered around building enormous mechanical bugs. However, these bugs were actually vehicles for colonists on a hostile alien planet, who designed them to resemble bugs in order to blend in with the massive predatory insects native to the planet.
** ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Some of the semi-mechanical wildlife took the form of giant bugs, such as the dragonfly-esque Nui Rama, the beetle-like Bohrok, and the spider-like Visorak.
* Many toys of robot bugs have been made. Among the most popular examples being the Hexbugs, which are designed after ticks and minuscule bugs and are placed inside maces for them to complete.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Shows up with a few characters, but the ones that fit the description best are the Insecticons, Kickback, Bombshell, and Skrapnel. According to their bios they may even be a separate species from normal Cybertronians.
** Transmetals and Transmetals 2 increased the robotic appearances of Waspinator, Black Arachnia, and Tarantulus from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Bee-Boops are robotic drones modelled after the non-anthropomorphic bees whose purpose is to protect the Honey Factory against the intruders. Unfortunately, due to Code 32 being in effect, they now [[AIIsACrapshoot interpret anyone as an intruder]]. There is also a [[KingMook larger version of Bee-Boop]] called Heavy Drone B-33, whose purpose is to protect the factory core itself, and it serves as the main boss of Chapter 3.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'':
** Builder Scarabs are, well, builders that summon Necron structures. They also have a long detection range and are the only unit in the Necron army that can capture strategic points.
** Tomb Spyders are spider-like constructs that serve as the Necron's melee vehicle. Uniquely, they aren't contructed but exist as corpses around the Monolith when the game starts and are resurrected where they fell. They can also harvest dead units to reassemble them into replacement squads (somehow) and spawn Scarabs, swarms of machines that can overwhelm enemies (and in ''Soulstorm'', serve as the Necrons' flyers).
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'':
** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'', Buzzes are robotic bees created by [[BigBad Baron K. Roolenstein]] that replace the organic Zingers from [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1 the previous]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest two games]]. They come in two colors; green and red. The green Buzzes can be defeated by regular barrels and certain animal buddies, but the red Buzzes can only be defeated by TNT barrels or the [[InvincibilityPowerUp invincibility barrel]].
** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', Mecha-Zingers are robotic versions of Zingers that inhabit [[EternalEngine Frantic Factory]] and also briefly appear in a mini-game in Hideout Helm. They drop orange grenades and must be shot with a weapon two times to be defeated, except for Chunky's pineapple launcher, which is twice as powerful.
*''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' has several insect-like robots appearing as enemies in the game. There are [[DreadfulDragonfly Dragonflies]], aerial robots modelled after their namesakes; [[ThunderBeetle Fireflies]], who attack with electric light bulbs in their heads; [[BeeAfraid Stingers]], green [[WickedWasps wasp-like]] robots that attack in huge swarms especially if disturbed in their nests; [[GiantSpider Wretchnid]], a spider-like robot that serves as the MiniBoss and is encountered in the first stage of the game; and [[SlayingMantis Mantalith]], an ancient construct modelled after the praying mantis that attacks with its massive claws or biting its victims, and serves as the end boss of the Stage 2.
* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'': The Paradoxa-class Abductors are [[GiantSpider giant robot spiders]] covered in plates of armor and [[MacrossMissileMassacre fire missiles willy-nilly]]. Along with firing sticky webs out of their cannons, Paradoxas also [[ShedArmorGainSpeed shed their armor for speed]] when enough damage is dealt, making them even more aggressive than before.
* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Corruptors are large, scorpion-like robots mounted on four legs and armed with clamps on the tips of their tails and grenade launchers mounted on their backs.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect:'' The Collectors are formerly members of the insectoid [[spoiler:Prothean]] race that were given UnwillingRoboticisation to serve as soldiers for the Reapers. In addition, they all use a number of insectoid and insect-like weapons, such as "Seeker" swarms which bite and immobilize their targets without killing them, allowing the Collectors to abduct subjects en masse for experimentation and [[spoiler:Reaper conversion]].
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': The battle mini-game "Insectiride" has players control four different bug-like vehicles, each with their own button mechanic.
* ''VideoGame/Mother3'': One of the first enemies you encounter are Fire Flies which are mechanical bugs that have the ability to breathe fire and are used to set fire to Sunshine Forest in the first chapter.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': Genesect is not only a metallic bug, but also a prehistoric insect that was revived and given robotic enhancements by Team Plasma to make the most powerful Pokémon ever. Giving it different "drives" allows it to change the type of its signature move Techno Blast, and it can fold its limbs to transform into a flying saucer.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': These are common mooks that Sonic faces. Ranging from weak to somewhat tough ones. Motobugs are robotic ladybugs that run on one wheel and are generally easy to destroy, Buzz Bombers are robotic wasps that shoot lasers from their thoraxes, Caterkillers are robotic caterpillars that scatter if Sonic hits one of their body segments rather than their heads, and Grabbers are robotic spiders that grab Sonic in their legs and explode after they catch him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': Each major species archetype has a type of robot patterned after it that is used to represent the machine intelligences it builds. As such, the insectoid model resembles a floating, mechanical arthropod. Notably, the plantoid model also uses a multi-legged, jointed form that brings arthropods to mind.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' has Mechawiggler, which is a robotic version of Wiggler, a recurring caterpillar enemy in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. It serves as the boss of the Metro Kingdom, and it absorbs the electricity of New Donk City from the lightning rod. During the battle, it fires a lot of electrical spheres at Mario and charges at him by warping through the portals. To destroy it, Mario must capture a nearby [[TankGoodness Sherm]] and use its cannonballs to depower all its segments and then shoot at it while it's vulnerable.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
*''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Dr. X has the Trilobugs; mechanical insects that can be used for various purposes, like spying on his enemies, hacking computers or (when in large enough numbers) attacking opponents. Dr. X. later also introduces a microscopic variation of the bugs called Nano-Trilobugs, which can infect and control electronic systems, or even infect people. And in the episode "Search and Destroy", X builds a large, heavily weaponized version specifically for tracking down and killing Action Man.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': The villain Mechanicles builds clockwork-themed robot insects to help in commiting his crimes.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' introduced the Dark Heart, an invasive nannite swarm super weapon who's drones took the form of robotic insects as they worked to consume all available resources of a planet.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': The Cluster are a race of humanoid robots with insect-like characteristics. Their queen, Vexus, is designed after beetles with wings on her back, antennae and serves a the "Hive Queen" of her race. At least until her daughter, Vega, overthrows her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'': The Spiderbots are spider themed and very large rollbots which desire to wage war with the inhabitants of Flip City. The series' BigBad is a spiderbot named Vertex.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Aku's primary {{Mook}}s, the Beetle-Drones are bug-like hordes of robots initially designed after Hercules beetles, and in Season 5, after stag beetles, later on, large mantis variants named Mantoids are seen. Many other robo-bugs appear in the series, though usually they seem organic until a RoboticReveal (mainly due to censorship laws). A benevolent bug-like robot, Chitron 6 appears in Episode XLVII but is killed by Aku.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Spy-Roach starts out as a cockroach that Donatello attached cameras to. After getting exposed to mutagen it transforms into a cockroach HollywoodCyborg.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': In "Spies Vs. Spies", the protagonists end up tied in a giant web made by a large spider robot, which then crawls over them and [[ProjectileWebbing sprays them with a liquid material which hardens into a cocoon]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': While she lacks an outright beast form like Blackarachnia and the Insecticons, Airachnid has a very noticeable spider motif, from her [[SpiderLimbs additional legs]] right down to [[AllWebbedUp the webs]] she uses.
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[[caption-width-right:350:This Cy-Bug [[Quotes/StarWars is more machine than bug]]]]
Sometimes in fiction there's an overlap of bugs and machines being mixed into one new type of being: Robo-Bugs. These robo-bugs have what you call the best of both worlds: multiple limbs and visors/eyes, sometimes they have wings and other body parts that only bugs have. These critters usually will appear being employed as {{Mecha Mook}}s by the villains or have antagonistic roles, though that does not mean that necessarily all examples will be evil-aligned or antagonistic.
Generally speaking, the main reason for the trope's usage might be rooted in that both bugs and robots are both usually seen as uncanny by many people and that the bugs' different anatomy to vertebrates might make them look off compared to all other living beings. Sometimes an inversion might be found with bugs which have robot-like characteristics or become cyborgs, though these tend to overlap with other tropes.
Another reason for this trope's usage is that one of the main issues with building robots is stability: two-legged robots tend to tip over very easily, and while wheels and tracks are more stable they also don't do too well on uneven terrain. Multiple legs solve both issues at once, and most real-life robots tend to have four or six walking limbs.
Can be considered a subtrope of StarfishRobots. Super-trope to LiteralSurveillanceBug, as it encompasses all kinds of robotic bugs, not just the ones employed for espionage. Also compare to InsectoidAliens, MechanicalHorse and RobotDog. Larger specimens may overlap with SpiderTank.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'': In "The Second Renaissance," the Machines are first shown as humanoid robots designed for simple labor; as they attain sentience and begin forming a more complex society, their forms evolve into the more efficient, insectoid Machines seen in the Matrix Trilogy.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Many Digimon in the franchise are robotic-based with a few individuals standing out in the anime adaptations:
** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Trailmon Worm is a living Digimon train with the features of insects such as multiple eyes and a segmented body (serving as the "cars").
** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'': Ballistamon is a humanoid robotic Digimon who's modeled after hercules beetles.
* ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'': The fourth volume features arachnid robots with distinct abdomens that are almost entirely made up of a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and its absurdly large ammo drum.
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[[folder:Film - Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': The Cy-Bugs are a very literal example of the trope, as they're a swarm of bugs with technological characteristics.
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[[folder:Film - Live Action]]
* The Bureau of Precrime from ''Film/MinorityReport'' can send small, spiderlike drones into an apartment building to scan the retinas of its occupants. The little spider-bots typically swarm in by the hundreds, crawling up the bodies of many residents to scan their retinas for identification. Most people are aware of them, and wisely let the bots do their jobs, since interference constitutes a crime.
* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions''. As Neo is walking through the machine city, a number of insect-like robots crawl out of the walls and follow him.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In the prequel trilogy, the Confederacy's droid armies include a number of arthropod-like models.
** Spider droids are spherical robots with four jointed legs arranged equidistantly around their midsections and powerful laser guns mounted on their fronts (for the small ones) or undersides (for the large ones).
** Crab droids have larger, jointed legs and rust-red, exoskeleton-like plating. They're mostly melee fighters that grapple and beat at their enemies.
* Ivan Ooze's Ecto-Morphicon Titans from ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', Hornitor and Scorpitron are robotic bugs. As their names imply, they are based on a hornet and scorpion, respectively.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Bug Fighter is the standard Yeerk combat ship, resembling a headless cockroach with two spear-like protusions for energy weapons.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
*''Series/BlackMirror'': In "[[Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation Hated in the Nation]]", after the bees [[ExtinctInTheFuture went nearly extinct]], many countries utilized Automatic Drone Insects (ADI for short) to carry out pollination. These drones are capable of self-replicating and building hives on their own, with these hives featuring 3D printing devices (which falls short, as they are unable to make honey). They are also used by government [[SinisterSurveillance to spy on the populace]], and were hacked to kill anyone who was voted to be killed on Twitter through the use of the #[=DeathTo=] hashtag. [[spoiler:The real targets are not the hashtag targets, but those who ''used'' the hashtag.]]
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "War Of The Coprophages", the inhabitants of a small town are seemingly being attacked and killed by cockroaches. The deaths all turn out to have mundane explanations, but they do discover something more bizarre: some of the cockroaches in town prove to be robots with metal exoskeletons, which an expert in the field declares to be far more advanced than anything he's ever seen. It's never confirmed where they come from, but Mulder suspects they may be alien surveillance drones.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Clockwork horrors are mechanical spider-like constructs about two feet across that live in large swarms, where their role and status is determined by the metal they're made out of -- electrum ones are soldiers, gold ones commanders, platinum ones generals, and a single adamantine horror rules the swarm. They reproduce by consuming metal and using it to construct new swarm members. They're extremely efficient at this; if a swarm is allowed to grow unchecked, it can quickly strip a city of metal and go on to threaten the rest of the country.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has a number of this, mostly typed as artifact creatures and as insects; they're especially common in the biomechanical planes of Phyrexia and Mirrodin. There's some considerable variety, both in constitution (clockwork creatures, robots and magically-animated metal are all present) and in species ([[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/257/jhoiras-timebug ants]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/mrd/153/clockwork-beetle beetles]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/249/brass-gnat gnats]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/10e/333/mantis-engine mantises]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/5dn/122/ferropede millipedes]] and [[https://scryfall.com/card/som/198/rust-tick ticks]] are all represented).
* ''Starblazer Adventures'': In the Mindjammer setting, the Venu forces use spider-shaped war robots that can climb walls and are adept at moving in zero-G environments.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Canoptek constructs created by the Necrons to act as {{Attack Drone}}s, and caretakers of their Tomb Worlds, are typically crafted to resemble extremely large insects. Beetles (Canoptic Scarabs), spiders (Canoptek Spyders) and centipiedes (Tomb Stalkers) are some of the more recognisable forms that these robotic creatures can take, but even the stranger looking constructs such as Canoptek Wraiths and Reanimators have forms based loosely on insectoid life (spider-snake and water strider-[[Literature/WarOfTheWorlds Martian tripod]] hybrids respectively).
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'': The Digital Bug archetype has trait of this, as the bugs in the archetype have a lot of digital-covered body parts and are mechanical in appearance. They also simultaneously reference how errors in computers are called "bugs" as their lore has them as inhabitants of the inside of a computer.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'':
** The ''Insectoids'' run centered around building enormous mechanical bugs. However, these bugs were actually vehicles for colonists on a hostile alien planet, who designed them to resemble bugs in order to blend in with the massive predatory insects native to the planet.
** ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Some of the semi-mechanical wildlife took the form of giant bugs, such as the dragonfly-esque Nui Rama, the beetle-like Bohrok, and the spider-like Visorak.
* Many toys of robot bugs have been made. Among the most popular examples being the Hexbugs, which are designed after ticks and minuscule bugs and are placed inside maces for them to complete.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Shows up with a few characters, but the ones that fit the description best are the Insecticons, Kickback, Bombshell, and Skrapnel. According to their bios they may even be a separate species from normal Cybertronians.
** Transmetals and Transmetals 2 increased the robotic appearances of Waspinator, Black Arachnia, and Tarantulus from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': Bee-Boops are robotic drones modelled after the non-anthropomorphic bees whose purpose is to protect the Honey Factory against the intruders. Unfortunately, due to Code 32 being in effect, they now [[AIIsACrapshoot interpret anyone as an intruder]]. There is also a [[KingMook larger version of Bee-Boop]] called Heavy Drone B-33, whose purpose is to protect the factory core itself, and it serves as the main boss of Chapter 3.
* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'':
** Builder Scarabs are, well, builders that summon Necron structures. They also have a long detection range and are the only unit in the Necron army that can capture strategic points.
** Tomb Spyders are spider-like constructs that serve as the Necron's melee vehicle. Uniquely, they aren't contructed but exist as corpses around the Monolith when the game starts and are resurrected where they fell. They can also harvest dead units to reassemble them into replacement squads (somehow) and spawn Scarabs, swarms of machines that can overwhelm enemies (and in ''Soulstorm'', serve as the Necrons' flyers).
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'':
** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'', Buzzes are robotic bees created by [[BigBad Baron K. Roolenstein]] that replace the organic Zingers from [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1 the previous]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest two games]]. They come in two colors; green and red. The green Buzzes can be defeated by regular barrels and certain animal buddies, but the red Buzzes can only be defeated by TNT barrels or the [[InvincibilityPowerUp invincibility barrel]].
** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', Mecha-Zingers are robotic versions of Zingers that inhabit [[EternalEngine Frantic Factory]] and also briefly appear in a mini-game in Hideout Helm. They drop orange grenades and must be shot with a weapon two times to be defeated, except for Chunky's pineapple launcher, which is twice as powerful.
*''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' has several insect-like robots appearing as enemies in the game. There are [[DreadfulDragonfly Dragonflies]], aerial robots modelled after their namesakes; [[ThunderBeetle Fireflies]], who attack with electric light bulbs in their heads; [[BeeAfraid Stingers]], green [[WickedWasps wasp-like]] robots that attack in huge swarms especially if disturbed in their nests; [[GiantSpider Wretchnid]], a spider-like robot that serves as the MiniBoss and is encountered in the first stage of the game; and [[SlayingMantis Mantalith]], an ancient construct modelled after the praying mantis that attacks with its massive claws or biting its victims, and serves as the end boss of the Stage 2.
* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'': The Paradoxa-class Abductors are [[GiantSpider giant robot spiders]] covered in plates of armor and [[MacrossMissileMassacre fire missiles willy-nilly]]. Along with firing sticky webs out of their cannons, Paradoxas also [[ShedArmorGainSpeed shed their armor for speed]] when enough damage is dealt, making them even more aggressive than before.
* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Corruptors are large, scorpion-like robots mounted on four legs and armed with clamps on the tips of their tails and grenade launchers mounted on their backs.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect:'' The Collectors are formerly members of the insectoid [[spoiler:Prothean]] race that were given UnwillingRoboticisation to serve as soldiers for the Reapers. In addition, they all use a number of insectoid and insect-like weapons, such as "Seeker" swarms which bite and immobilize their targets without killing them, allowing the Collectors to abduct subjects en masse for experimentation and [[spoiler:Reaper conversion]].
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty6'': The battle mini-game "Insectiride" has players control four different bug-like vehicles, each with their own button mechanic.
* ''VideoGame/Mother3'': One of the first enemies you encounter are Fire Flies which are mechanical bugs that have the ability to breathe fire and are used to set fire to Sunshine Forest in the first chapter.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': Genesect is not only a metallic bug, but also a prehistoric insect that was revived and given robotic enhancements by Team Plasma to make the most powerful Pokémon ever. Giving it different "drives" allows it to change the type of its signature move Techno Blast, and it can fold its limbs to transform into a flying saucer.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': These are common mooks that Sonic faces. Ranging from weak to somewhat tough ones. Motobugs are robotic ladybugs that run on one wheel and are generally easy to destroy, Buzz Bombers are robotic wasps that shoot lasers from their thoraxes, Caterkillers are robotic caterpillars that scatter if Sonic hits one of their body segments rather than their heads, and Grabbers are robotic spiders that grab Sonic in their legs and explode after they catch him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': Each major species archetype has a type of robot patterned after it that is used to represent the machine intelligences it builds. As such, the insectoid model resembles a floating, mechanical arthropod. Notably, the plantoid model also uses a multi-legged, jointed form that brings arthropods to mind.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' has Mechawiggler, which is a robotic version of Wiggler, a recurring caterpillar enemy in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' series. It serves as the boss of the Metro Kingdom, and it absorbs the electricity of New Donk City from the lightning rod. During the battle, it fires a lot of electrical spheres at Mario and charges at him by warping through the portals. To destroy it, Mario must capture a nearby [[TankGoodness Sherm]] and use its cannonballs to depower all its segments and then shoot at it while it's vulnerable.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
*''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'': Dr. X has the Trilobugs; mechanical insects that can be used for various purposes, like spying on his enemies, hacking computers or (when in large enough numbers) attacking opponents. Dr. X. later also introduces a microscopic variation of the bugs called Nano-Trilobugs, which can infect and control electronic systems, or even infect people. And in the episode "Search and Destroy", X builds a large, heavily weaponized version specifically for tracking down and killing Action Man.
* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': The villain Mechanicles builds clockwork-themed robot insects to help in commiting his crimes.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' introduced the Dark Heart, an invasive nannite swarm super weapon who's drones took the form of robotic insects as they worked to consume all available resources of a planet.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': The Cluster are a race of humanoid robots with insect-like characteristics. Their queen, Vexus, is designed after beetles with wings on her back, antennae and serves a the "Hive Queen" of her race. At least until her daughter, Vega, overthrows her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'': The Spiderbots are spider themed and very large rollbots which desire to wage war with the inhabitants of Flip City. The series' BigBad is a spiderbot named Vertex.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Aku's primary {{Mook}}s, the Beetle-Drones are bug-like hordes of robots initially designed after Hercules beetles, and in Season 5, after stag beetles, later on, large mantis variants named Mantoids are seen. Many other robo-bugs appear in the series, though usually they seem organic until a RoboticReveal (mainly due to censorship laws). A benevolent bug-like robot, Chitron 6 appears in Episode XLVII but is killed by Aku.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': Spy-Roach starts out as a cockroach that Donatello attached cameras to. After getting exposed to mutagen it transforms into a cockroach HollywoodCyborg.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': In "Spies Vs. Spies", the protagonists end up tied in a giant web made by a large spider robot, which then crawls over them and [[ProjectileWebbing sprays them with a liquid material which hardens into a cocoon]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': While she lacks an outright beast form like Blackarachnia and the Insecticons, Airachnid has a very noticeable spider motif, from her [[SpiderLimbs additional legs]] right down to [[AllWebbedUp the webs]] she uses.
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