History Main / RobotKid

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'' has Brobot, created to be a younger brother rather than a son to his creator.

* Rusty of ''Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', [[spoiler:Shaun, the director of the Institute, built a synth child replica of his past self and wishing the Sole Survivor can give him a second chance to live in Commonwealth, and you can choose to adopt or abandon him in you choose to destroy the Institute. This slightly differs if you choose to side with the Institute instead, as Shaun would insist his parents to live with his synth self as a family.]]

* Rock and Roll in ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' are teenagers, in contrast to their younger game versions.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''
** Wheelie, the young autobot they find fending for himself with a slingshot on Quintessa in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersTheMovie''. In subsequent episodes of the cartoon he would be paired with Daniel to make a Cute Kid and Robot pair.
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'' introduced the concept of "protoforms", which are apparently what passes for an infant phase among Transformers. They look like a mannequin made of flowing, silvery metal and become fully "grown" after getting the proper coding.

* Vicki from ''Series/SmallWonder''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-Jl6Hb5Vw Repliee R1]], not to be confused with the Q1 which is a robot adult.

** Similar situation with Elsie Dee, created by Donald Pierce of the Hellfire Club to take out {{Wolverine}}. However, an assistant of Pierce's made her far more intelligent and sentient than Pierce intended, and she managed to get control of her systems and not blow up.

* ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'': David was designed to be a robot boy with a child-like mind to give humans who couldn't have children or who didn't have a child license under the strict populaton control laws of the future someone to care for.

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* Frankenrobo from ''Literature/Anpanman}}''. Baikinman made him as a weapon against Anpanman, but he never became evil like Baikinman wanted, and Baikinman now tries to avoid him in any way he can, thanks to the fact that Frankenrobo now thinks of Baikinman as his dad, which leads him to hugging him, thus harming him thanks to Frankenrobo's electric touch. Baikinman later would attempt to create three other robots that started out evil...but thanks to Frankenrobo touching them and restarting them with his electricity when they were being repaired, they became as childish and friendly as their "big brother".

May fall into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or OlderThanTheyLook unless the robot was very recently built. If they ''were'' built very recently, they might actually be YoungerThanTheyLook instead. In either case, it's common for the robot to feel that NotGrowingUpSucks.[[note]]though they may have it easier they're a TransformingMecha whose alternate form is an OlderAlterEgo[[/note]] Most {{Astro Clone}}s are Robot Kids.

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* Frankenrobo from ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}''. Baikinman made him as a weapon against Anpanman, but he never became evil like Baikinman wanted, and Baikinman now tries to avoid him in any way he can, thanks to the fact that Frankenrobo now thinks of Baikinman as his dad, which leads him to hugging him, thus harming him thanks to Frankenrobo's electric touch. Baikinman later would attempt to create three other robots that started out evil...but thanks to Frankenrobo touching them and restarting them with his electricity when they were being repaired, they became as childish and friendly as their "big brother".

** [[spoiler:Sari Sumdac]] for the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' is the [[spoiler:RobotGirl]] variant. Its harder to tell because those seasons the 'bot in question is in its alt-mode, [[spoiler:a human.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': B.O.Y.D., created by tech billionaire Mark Beaks to get himself in to a rich kid's birthday party. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode, he's reprogrammed to be said rich kid's adoptive brother.]]

May fall into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or OlderThanTheyLook unless the robot was very recently built. If they ''were'' built very recently, they might actually be YoungerThanTheyLook instead. In either case, it's common for the robot to feel that NotGrowingUpSucks.[[note]]though they may have it easier they're a TransformingMecha with an alternate form that is an OlderAlterEgo[[/note]] Most {{Astro Clone}}s are Robot Kids.

May fall into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or OlderThanTheyLook unless the robot was very recently built. If they ''were'' built very recently, they might actually be YoungerThanTheyLook instead. In either case, it's common for the robot to feel that NotGrowingUpSucks. Most {{Astro Clone}}s are Robot Kids.

* The title character of the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy'' is a doll-like robot with a childlike mentality. There's also Robotgirl and Protoboy, who also fit this trope. All of them can, however, transform into larger and more threatening "superactivated" versions.

* The title character of the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy''. There's also Robotgirl and Protoboy. All of them can, however, transform into larger and more threatening "superactivated" versions to fight.

* The title character of the cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy''. There's also Robotgirl and Protoboy.

* Junior from ''Literature/NotQuiteHuman''.

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* Junior from the ''Radio/DimensionX'' and ''Radio/XMinusOne'' episode "Almost Human".

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* Kid Robot is a member of the Emerald City Sentinels in ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. Originally the AI to control a '''Ki'''ntetic '''D'''eflector, the MotherlyScientist who created him agreed to give him a humanoid body when she realised he was self-aware, and is now his legal guardian. He looks like a small brass robot in a t-shirt with a "KD" logo, and has the personality of a cheerful ten-year-old.
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* Roll from ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man}}'' and Rock/Mega Man himself (who was originally a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replacement]] made for an ''Anime/AstroBoy'' game [[WhatCouldHaveBeen that never happened]]). There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.

May fall into ReallySevenHundredYearsOld or OlderThanTheyLook unless the robot was very recently built. If they ''were'' built very recently, they might actually be YoungerThanTheyLook instead. In either case, it's common for the robot to feel that NotGrowingUpSucks.

* ''Disney/{{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.