History Main / RobotKid

* ''{{Pinocchio}}'' is something of a fantasy variation in that he's a wooden puppet, not a robot, and was enchanted to be sentient rather than having AI.
* The titular character of the cartoon ''RobotBoy''

* TheBeano had one, possibly named Tin Can Tommy.

* Roll from ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' and Rock/Mega Man himsel (who was originally a replacement made for an {{Astroboy}} game that never happened). There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.

* Roll from ''Game/MegaMan'' and Rock/Mega Man himsel (who was originally a replacement made for an {{Astroboy}} game that never happened). There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.
* MOMO from ''{{Xenosaga}}'', though she's more of an ArtificialHuman than a robot.

* Warbot in ''Webcomic/WarbotInAccounting'' once builds a small robot in an attempt to get a son. HilarityEnsues. [[YourMileageMayVary Maybe]].

* WarbotInAccounting once builds a small robot in an attempt to get a son. HilarityEnsues. [[YourMileageMayVary Maybe]].

* Tinny Tim on ''{{Futurama}}''

* [[spoiler:The main character]] among others in ''CaveStory''.

* Wheelie, the young autobot they find fending for himself with a slingshot on Quintessa in ''TransformersTheMovie''. In subsequent episodes of the cartoon he would be paired with Daniel to make a [[CuteKidsAndRobots Cute Kid And Robot]] pair.

A subtrope of CuteKidsAndRobots where the cute kid ''is'' a robot -- one that's built to look and/or act like a child. A good number of these are boys, but there are many that are [[RobotGirl girls]].

* Roll from ''Game/MegaMan'' and possibly Rock/Mega Man himself.
** He is, in fact he was originally a replacement made for an {{Astroboy}} game that never happened. There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.

* A villainous example occurs in ''TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'', where Black Magma builds a robot version of a man's dead daughter.

* {{Beano}} had one, possibly named Tin Can Tommy.

May fall into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld unless the robot was very recently built.

* Rusty of ''BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''.

* ''BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''. Rusty was not built as a family robot, though, unless all family robots fire energy beams from their hands and can fly around. Rusty, originally meant to replace the outdated Big Guy (who is actually a HumongousMecha with a pilot inside, despite what the public believes). However, Rusty's childish demeanor and inexperience relegate him to the post of a sidekick, while the Big Guy still takes care of the big problems.

* David from ''[[{{ptitleuns0l24r}} A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]''.
* The titular ''[[{{ptitledslx1230}} D.A.R.Y.L.]]''

* ''TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''. Rusty was not built as a family robot, though, unless all family robots fire energy beams from their hands and can fly around. Rusty, originally meant to replace the outdated Big Guy (who is actually a HumongousMecha with a pilot inside, despite what the public believes). However, Rusty's childish demeanor and inexperience relegate him to the post of a sidekick, while the Big Guy still takes care of the big problems.

* ''BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''.

* Chachamaru from MahouSenseiNegima is RobotKid meets RobotGirl.

[[folder:Manga and Anime]]
* ''AstroBoy''. He's one of the ReplacementGoldfish examples, but he also has combat abilities.
* Arale from ''[[DrSlump Dr. Slump]]''.
* Pino in ''ErgoProxy''.
* The main character of the short anime movie ''Hotori - Tada Saiwai o Koinegau'' is a little robot boy.

[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK64zsZNNs CB2]].
* [[http://www.robotcub.org/ Robot Cub]], a robot 3-year-old designed to study cognition.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-Jl6Hb5Vw Repliee R1]], not to be confused with the Q1 which is a robot adult.

[[folder:Video Games]]
* Botley in ''JumpStart3rdGrade''.
* Roll from ''Game/MegaMan'' and possibly Rock/Mega Man himself.
** He is, in fact he was originally a replacement made for an {{Astroboy}} game that never happened. There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.
* MOMO from ''{{Xenosaga}}'', though she's more of an ArtificialHuman than a robot.
* [[spoiler:The main character]] among others in ''CaveStory''.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* WarbotInAccounting once builds a small robot in an attempt to get a son. HilarityEnsues. [[YourMileageMayVary Maybe]].
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* The titular ''[[{{ptitledslx1230}} D.A.R.Y.L.'']]

* The titular ''[[ptitledslx1230}} D.A.R.Y.L.'']]

* The titular ''D.A.R.Y.L.''

Possibly made as part of a RoboFamily, or to be taken care of as a child of a human family (possibly as a ReplacementGoldfish for a lost child of the creator or if the creator can't have biological children).

* MOMO from ''{{Xenosaga}}'', though she's more of an ArtificialLifeform than a robot.