History Main / RoboFamily

* A trio of mech toys being considered a family is a RunningGag in ''Manga/MyNeighborSeki''. The toys are Saki's, and he (eventually Yokoi as well) treat them all like a family unit and create escapades for them.

** The Four Guardians in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' are regarded as siblings by some portions of the fandom for convenience, due to their common origin and purpose.

* {{Tron}}-universe {{Fanon}} will tend to [[PlayingWithATrope play with this trope]], particularly in regards to Clu, Sam, and Flynn (usually played for DarkFic) or with Alan and Tron (often played for HurtComfortFic). Complicating matters in that universe, Programs don't appear to have the same concept of "family" as humans and the fact Programs [[ThankTheMaker see humans as their deities]].

* The villains of ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' / ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' are an evil robot royal family.
* Signalman, a robot space policeman from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', has a wife and son on his home planet. This ''wasn't'' carried over to his PR counterpart.

** Heck, the Robot Masters of ''1'', ''9'', and ''[[MegaManPoweredUp Powered Up]]'' can count as well. Not that it stops some of the ''Powered Up'' robots from [[BrotherSisterIncest hitting on Roll]].

* The TwentiethCenturyFox movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' has this, most notably with a main character who has a mom and dad.

* In the movie continuity of ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' there are several nods to the robots having families. Optimus Prime and Megatron are implied to be brothers (whether literal or metaphorical isn't entirely made clear), the 3 Arcee bikes have been referred to as sisters by some sources, Jetfire mentions having a mother and a father (who was apparently "the first wheel"), The Fallen and the Dynasty Of Primes are all brothers and Optimus is a great descendent of one of them. Oh and The Twins, who are... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin robot twins]].

* In the movie continuity of [[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]] there are several nods to the robots having families. Optimus Prime and Megatron are implied to be brothers (whether literal or metaphorical isn't entirely made clear), the 3 Arcee bikes have been referred to as sisters by some sources, Jetfire mentions having a mother and a father (who was apparently "the first wheel"), The Fallen and the Dynasty Of Primes are all brothers and Optimus is a great descendent of one of them. Oh and The Twins, who are... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin robot twins]].

* In ''OrionsArm'' Clade Faber usually form "reprogroups" that cooperate to construct new vecs and program them with partial copies of their personalities.

* One Duracell ad campaign featured the Puttermans, a nuclear family of [[LeaveItToBeaver domestic suburbanites]] that ran on giant Duracell batteries.

* According to ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'', [[{{Eberron}} warforged]] often consider others from the same factory to be family of sorts.

* A large plotpoint in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. A group called the [[MorallyAmbigiousDoctorate Institute]], who replace people in the Commonwealth wasteland with their own, fabricated human clones of the same called "Synths". Unfortunately for the Institute, it seems that when you create faultless synthetical humans, you also make intelligent, free-thinking life. The [[UndergroundRailroad Railroad]] works to liberate these people... And sometimes the less sentient ones. And toasters, if you ask the Institute.

* A large plotpoint in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. A group called the [[MorallyAmbigousDoctorate Institute]], who replace people in the Commonwealth wasteland with their own, fabricated human clones of the same called "Synths". Unfortunately for the Institute, it seems that when you create faultless synthetical humans, you also make intelligent, free-thinking life. The [[UndergroundRailroad Railroad]] works to liberate these people... And sometimes the less sentient ones. And toasters, if you ask the Institute.

** Taken one step further in the 2015 ''Vision'' series, in which he creates a robotic wife, son, daughter, and eventually even a dog.

* An episode of ''TheJetsons'' has George getting a blueprint of Rosie the robot maid's predecessor in her series as an inverted Mother's Day gift, as that's the closest thing she had to a mother.

* The W-Numbers of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' have varying degrees of "family" relationships. As (supposedly) the only one of the group to develop real human emotions, W17 starts to see her fellow androids as something like siblings, but only after defecting to the opposite side. As such, she's the first that their creator starts to see as a "daughter". But the closest sibling relationship between two W-Numbers is in the GaidenGame ''EndlessFrontier'', with W07 and [[spoiler:W00, who is actually an artificial human rather than an android. When his origins are first revealed, they teasingly refer to each other as "Brother Zero Zero" and "Sister Seven".]]

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* In the movie continuity of [[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]] there are several nods to the robots having families. Optimus Prime and Megatron are implied to be brothers (whether literal or metaphorical isn't entirely made clear), the 3 Arcee bikes have been referred to as sisters by some sources, Jetfire mentions having a mother and a father (who was apparently "the first wheel"), The Fallen and the Dynasty Of Primes are all brothers and Optimus is a great descendent of one of them. Oh and The Twins, who are... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin robot twins]].
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': Tony Stark builds a number of [=AI=]s that join the "family business" so to speak. DUMM-E, J.A.R.V.I.S. F.R.I.D.A.Y., and partially, [[spoiler: The Vision]] either help him in Stark Industries and/or in Avenging. In fact, ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' plays out like a teenager rebelling against his father and Tony even jokes that Ultron is "breaking your old man's heart".

* The DCUniverse has Dr. Magnus' ComicBook/MetalMen, who are all people who were accidentally transferred into robotic bodies. [[AlternateContinuity Sometimes]].

** Taken one step further in the 2015 [[Vision]] series, in which he creates a robotic wife, son, daughter, and eventually even a dog.

* In ''PrincessResurrection'' each of the royal siblings have there own android who are also called siblings: [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Flandre, Francisca, Francette, Flanders and Franz]] - and probably several more.

* Machine People in the "Anime/{{Leijiverse}}" (featured in Galaxy Express 999 and many others) fall into this category; they're all transformed humans, for the most part, but sometimes we see scenes of things like in "Cosmo Warrior Zero" where robot mommies are running away from explosions holding their robot babies.

* This can be done in TheSims of all places, particularly Sims2. Servo units are fully functional characters, just with an unusual look and weird wants/needs. They also inherit all their creator's talents. After making one Servo, the Servo can create others, easily filling a house. Since Servos are essentially immortal they will usually outlast their creators by a long shot. It's entirely possible to have a single servo and it's descendants max out the game (learning all skills et all) for you.
** The Sims 3 also has this. Any Simbot that is built will regard the person who built them as their parent. If the person who built the Simbot has any biological children, then the Simbot will regard them as half-siblings. Simbots can also build their own Simbot children.

* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'': Chii has her sister [[spoiler:Freya]]. The chobits themselves were created to be surrogate daughters for a woman who couldn't given birth.

* The DCUniverse has Dr. Magnus' MetalMen, who are all people who were accidentally transferred into robotic bodies. [[AlternateContinuity Sometimes]].