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12	->''"Fellow Biophiles! We have learned that the key to inhibiting organic self-determination is to isolate the spawn from its parents, creating a healthy attachment to you as the primary caregiver. You will never need patrol drones again."''
13	-->-- '''Rogue Servitors''', ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''
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15	An artificial lifeform raises a human (or alien) child. The reasoning can be different each time. Sometimes the parents are [[ParentalNeglect absent, but still around]], leaving the robot as their only friend. Other times, the parents are [[DeathByOriginStory dead outright]], leaving the robot to be [[PromotionToParent the only parental figure the child has]]. Sometimes it's just how the society works, though this is usually a sign of a {{Dystopia}}.
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17	Given that one of the suggested uses for the humanoid robots currently being developed is childcare, there is a possibility of this trope becoming TruthInTelevision in the not-too-distant future.
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19	Compare RaisedByWolves, RoboFamily, and ArtificialFamilyMember. SubTrope of PromotionToParent.
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22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Advertising]]
27	* There's a Advertising/{{Geico}} ad where a woman tries to save money by enrolling her children in a daycare run by robots. It does not go well.
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* ''Manga/AstroBoy'' features the character Reno, a human boy who was raised by a troupe of circus robots after they found him as a baby in the same junkyard they were abandoned in. However, he has to continuously pretend he's a robot as well in order to avoid being taken away by the authorities.
32	* Shiki from ''Manga/EdensZero'' was raised from childhood by the robotic attractions and employees at the Granbell Kingdom amusement park, with the one who first discovered him being his "grandfather", the Demon King. They were friendly with him and gave him a good home, but this meant he never really interacted with real humans until Rebecca came along. Once off-planet, [[NoSocialSkills he has trouble adjusting to talking and meeting with other people]]. [[spoiler:The robots loved him so much that they pretended to turn against him to drive him offworld because their power supplies were nearly empty and they didn't want him to waste his life trying to repair them.]]
33	* The titular Age from ''Anime/HeroicAge'' was raised by the AI in the crashed ship he lived in. While it fits this trope, the result is more like RaisedByWolves, as the AI didn't have much to teach in the way of [[WildChild social interaction with other people]].
34	* In ''Manga/KuroganeCommunication'', Haruka is raised by five robots: Spike, Trigger, Angela, Cleric, and Reeves.
35	* In ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', Ruri was raised by a prerecorded program that was meant to be "the perfect parents". Also, her best friend was a robot.
36	* Happens ''multiple times'' in the future chapters of ''Manga/{{Phoenix}}''. In ''Resurrection'', the mass-production Robitas are often used as nannies, which leads to some nasty consequences when one is wrongfully accused of killing the human child it once looked after. ''Nostalgia'', meanwhile, has what is probably the most twisted example of this trope. After her husband, who was the only other adult human on the small desert planet they bought with money from a bank heist dies, the protagonist, Romy goes into [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] and leaves her son to be raised by a robot until he comes of age [[ParentalIncest so they can populate the planet]]. When she comes out her son has no memory of her and believes the robot to be his real mother. ''Life'' has a semi-example, where a little girl is being raised by her grandmother who is so old that she's become a full-body cyborg who looks like a TinCanRobot.
37	* In ''Anime/PlasticMemories'', humans raised by Giftia are known as "Android Children". Being RidiculouslyHumanRobots with artificial souls and human-like personalities, they're able to do this without any problem... until they reach the end of their nine-year lifespan.
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40	[[folder:Comic Books]]
41	* ''ComicBook/MagnusRobotFighter'': Our hero was raised by the freewilled robot A-1, who trained him in robot fighting.
42	* Monster hunter [[ComicBook/{{Bloodstone}} Elsa Bloodstone]] from ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' had a robot babysitter built by her father named "Hate Mother". Hate Mother also had an iron maiden inside her, making her a disciplinary tool as well.
43	* ''ComicBook/OmegaTheUnknown'' kicks off with young James-Michael Starling's discovery that his "dead" human parents had been robots all along.
44	* ''ComicBook/PlanetTerry'': Terry was raised by a Life Ship after being left stranded in space as a newborn. Still, it's not a parental figure to him, so he spends the whole series searching for his real parents.
45	* In the ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' prequel series ''Nävis'', the title character is raised on a jungle planet by a robot. However, she can also apparently talk to the local animals and has a tiger-like creature for a friend, so it kinda overlaps with WildChild.
46	* ''ComicBook/ManThing'': Wundarr is an alien from the planet Dakkam [[Franchise/{{Superman}} who was sent to Earth as an infant by his father to save him from Dakkam's destruction]]; unfortunately, the space pod landed in a Florida swamp in 1951, right in the middle of the RedScare, and the passing farming couple who saw it crash were too afraid it might be some sort of communist plot to check it out, leaving Wundarr stuck in the pod for the next 20 years. The ship's computer educated him and kept his body in peak perfection, but couldn't do anything to actually mentally develop or socialize him, leaving Wundarr a ridiculously stunted ManChild in an adult, superpowered body by the time Man-Thing stumbled over the pod and opened it, freeing him. Since Man-Thing is the first living (in the loosest sense of the word) Wundarr assumes the mindless, botanical abomination therefore must be his mother. Much hijinx ensue. Wundarr remains little more than a superpowered toddler until his exposure to a Cosmic Cube some time later signifigantly matures him mentally.
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49	[[folder:Fan Works]]
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51	* There's some {{Fanon}} floating around that Wilbur Robinson from ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' was primarily raised by the family robot Carl, due to Wilbur's parents Cornelius and Franny being a highly successful inventor and musician respectively. Since many of those same fans also believe that Cornelius had a paternal relationship with Carl during his early years, this comes off more as a mild PromotionToParent.
52	* A number of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' fanfics have Data raising one or more children, although usually with a human (or other organic species) partner.
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54	* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'': Captain Janeway scoffs at the suggestion that [[StayInTheKitchen women lack the natural authority]] to command a rocketship, saying that attitude results from men being raised in community crèches by robots, [[GoodOldWays instead of at home by their mothers]].
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57	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
58	* In ''WesternAnimation/MarsNeedsMoms'', the female Martians are raised by disciplinary robots that are fueled by mothers from the planet Earth, hence their kidnapping.
59	* In "WesternAnimation/ModernInventions", WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck sees a robot nanny in an exhibition and decides to test her out by pretending to be a baby. It turns out that the robot is still a little buggy and treats him rather roughly.
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62	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
63	* Inverted in ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' with David, the little robot boy raised by humans.
64	* ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars'': Nanelia touches Shad when he turns up on her space station, mistaking him for one of their androids, and is startled to find that he's warm-blooded.
65	-->'''Shad:''' Of course I'm warm; I'm organic. Haven't you ever seen an organic form?\
66	'''Nanelia:''' No, except [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter my father]]. There are only the androids.
67	* ''Film/TheElectricGrandmother'' has a robot grandmother taking the place of a dead human mother. The kids, after an initial adjustment period, turn out fine, and we see a WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue that proves it.
68	* ''Film/IAmMother'' has a facility that stores countless frozen embryos, overseen by an AI that calls itself Mother whose job is to raise them and repopulate humanity in an AfterTheEnd scenario. Naturally, the story takes some [[AIIsACrapshoot pretty dark turns]]. [[spoiler:The AI had decided that humanity had become so corrupt that the only fix was to kill 'em all and start over under its own expert guidance.]]
69	* In ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', Sarah Connor is raised by a T-800 after her parents are murdered by another Terminator.
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72	[[folder:Literature]]
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74	* In a couple of Creator/PhilipKDick's stories, a totally sociopathic character is this due to robots replacing families.
75	* This is discussed in a short story by Creator/SpiderRobinson in which a time traveler, interested in studying the nature of humans, travels through time to ask a wise man whether an experiment was ethical: kidnapping children otherwise doomed to die in order to have them raised by robots using a language stripped of all religious references to see if they develop religion. The catch? The intensely curious wise man doesn't get to know the outcome of the experiment if he says it was unethical to kidnap the doomed children.
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78	* ''Literature/AllTomorrows'': The Star People's second attempt at colonizing the stars used robotic ships that would start [[UterineReplicator producing]] and raising their colonists after arriving at their destination. It was a coin-toss as to whether or not the colonists would develop an Oedipus complex towards their "mothers."
79	* ''Literature/TheAvatarChronicles'': Penelope, the main character of ''Edda'', was raised by a sentient artificial intelligence being. From his virtual world, he is able to control the life support in the real world that keeps Penelope alive, and he raises her: her body is kept alive by his controlling the machines, and her mind is hooked up to the virtual reality equipment that puts her in Edda.
80	* Played with in ''Birthdays'' by Creator/FredSaberhagen. A boy in hypersleep is awakened every year on his birthday for over sixty years. Each day, he visits and observes a small community of people raised by the ship, seeing them having grown a year each time. In the end, it turns out that his yearly "visits" are intended to teach him psychology, preparing him to raise the next generation of people who will actually settle the world being journeyed to.
81	* PulpMagazine superhero Literature/CaptainFuture is raised and trained for the fight against evil by TinCanRobot Grag and ArtificialHuman Otho, creations of his murdered scientist parents (along with BrainInAJar Simon Wright). This is used to justify his superhuman reflexes during hand-to-hand combat. The {{reconstruction}} novel ''Avengers of the Moon'' by Creator/AllenSteele has a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome moment when our hero finds this upbringing really hasn't prepared him for [[DistractedByTheSexy interacting with the opposite sex]].
82	* ''Literature/ConstanceVeritySavesTheWorld'': Not being the most maternal of women, Lady Peril had her son reared by robot servants for some of his adolescence.
83	* The second story in the ''Literature/HeecheeSaga'' series, ''Beyond the Blue Event Horizon'', has Wan as the sole human survivor on an alien space station, raised by [=AIs=] simulating humans.
84	* In "I Sing the Body Electric" (sometimes also called "The Electric Grandmother"), by Creator/RayBradbury, a widower needs additional help in raising his children (particularly since his own mother died young), so, he sends for an android grandmother who turns out to be ''incredibly'' good at the job and astute at human psychology. The widower and two of the children quickly grow attached to the android and consider her part of the family. It's just the middle child, who is still grieving for her mother, whom "grandma" needs to win over.
85	* In the short science fiction story "The Island" by Creator/PeterWatts, the narrator wakes from cryosleep to meet a young engineer who'd been born on the ship and raised in isolation by the ship's sub-human AI.
86	* Hester Shaw from ''Literature/MortalEngines'' was raised for several years by a Stalker named Shrike (think ''Series/DoctorWho'''s Cybermen mixed with Rampancy-stage AI from ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'') after her parents were murdered. Actually, she gets worried that she is little more than a piece in his collection of doll children, and runs away, breaking his heart in the process. Throughout the series, Shrike is one of the few people who Hester shows genuine affection and care for.
87	* ''Literature/RobotSeries'':
88	** The central conflict in "Literature/{{Robbie}}" is Gloria's mother trying to eliminate Robbie, Gloria's mute RobotBuddy, for fear of her daughter coming out strange due to his influence. Gloria, on the other hand, wants to keep her best friend around, and is depressed/listless without him.
89	** This would eventually become the norm for Spacers, who tended to live on large private estates and treated procreation as a social duty rather than something desirable. On Solaria, the resident Spacers had become utterly averse to human contact of ''any'' kind, and delegated all child-rearing duties to robots.
90	* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', Han Solo and Princess Leia have a robot nanny for their children, when they aren't letting C-3P0 handle the task.
91	* Deconstructed in "Literature/TheVeldt". A family's children spend so much time in a virtual-reality nursery, running simulations of the African wilderness and lions eating carcasses, that their parents become concerned and consult a child psychologist, who suggests they turn off the nursery and take the children to the countryside. [[spoiler:The children beg for one last playtime in the nursery before they go, lock their parents in it, and [[SelfMadeOrphan have the virtual lions tear them apart]], having grown to consider the nursery more important than their own parents.]]
92	* In ''Voyage from Yesteryear'' by Creator/JamesPHogan, a probe is sent to Alpha Centauri containing a genetic bank to escape an impending world war. The children are raised by robots in a PostScarcityEconomy, so they end up forming a community where money and authoritarianism are meaningless. This causes problems when the authoritarian Earth governments established during the war decide to send an expedition to bring them back into the fold, leading to severe CultureClash.
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96	* ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'': The five heroes were raised by Arthur G-6, a robot build by their father, after they got seperated from their parents during an attack by the Galactic Empire Zone, and their parents were presumed dead afterwards.
97	* The sociopathic villain of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" was raised by robots. Having more empathy for them than his fellow humans, he decides to start a RobotWar.
98	* Technical Officer Jeffers from ''Series/{{Hyperdrive}}'' was raised by a computer simulation of his dead father, until they got into a fight and he deleted the program.
99	* Zev Bellringer in ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' was raised by malfunctioning robots after being sold to the wife bank on the planet [=B3K=].
100	* ''Series/RaisedByWolves2020'' is about a "seedship" type colony world where two androids named Father and Mother raise human children.
101	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
102	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E16TheOffspring The Offspring]]", Data creates a robot daughter and attempts to raise her. She actually surpasses Data in her ability to simulate humans, such as using contractions and briefly experiencing fear. [[spoiler:She ends up "dying" in the end, from irreparable damage to her "brain".]]
103	** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E11HeroWorship Hero Worship]]", Data ends up caring for an orphaned little boy for a while.
104	* This is revealed to be the case for DG in ''Series/TinMan'' after [[spoiler:she was sent to Earth by her mother the Queen of OZ]].
105	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
106	** {{Inverted\|Trope}} in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E8TheLatenessOfTheHour The Lateness of the Hour]]". [[spoiler:Jana Loren is a robot who was "raised" by humans, namely her creator Dr. William Loren and his wife. As they were unable to have children of their own, they programmed memories of a fictional childhood into her. [[TomatoInTheMirror She eventually discovers the truth]] when she realizes that the family album contains no photographs of her.]]
107	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E35ISingTheBodyElectric I Sing the Body Electric]]", Mr. Rogers purchases a robotic grandmother from Facsimile Ltd. to raise his children Tom, Karen and Anne after the death of his wife.
108	* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'': Grace/Mom is a robot designed by Reginald Hargreeves to care for the Umbrella Academy when they were children.
109	* One episode of ''Series/WelcomeToParadox'' is about a facility where humans are raised by androids, and free humans from outside try to free them.
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112	[[folder:Manhua]]
113	* This is the very premise of ''Manhua/MyBelovedMother''. The protagonist, Sinbell, is an orphan raised by a robotic mother and often dwells on his birth mother, whom he refused to believe have died, and repeatedly tries running away from home much to the chagrin of his robotic guardian. The epilogue flashback provides one hell of a TearJerker with TheReveal: [[spoiler:Sinbell's birth mother gave up her life to save Sinbell when he was four years of age from a stray nuclear explosion, and her DyingWish is for her mind to be transplanted into a robot's body for her to continue her motherly duties, making her a first-generation robot mother, which Sinbell is completely oblivious for most of his life]].
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116	[[folder:Music]]
117	* Music/SteamPoweredGiraffe has a ballad titled "Turn Back the Clock" in which Rabbit the robot struggles to accept her favorite little girl's growth through the phases of her life.
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120	[[folder:Radio]]
121	* The four people left of a {{Generation Ship\|s}} in ''Radio/{{Earthsearch}}'' were raised by robots and two [[ArtificialIntelligence supercomputers]] called Angel One and Angel Two. The rest of the crew were killed by a meteoroid strike [[AIIsACrapshoot arranged by the Angels]] while the survivors were just infants, as the Angels wanted to raise a crew that was completely under their influence.
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125	* One of the stories in ''Roleplay/CerberusDailyNews'' is about parents leaving their children with robot nannies. There's a debate on the effects it has on a child, and whether parents are neglecting their children or just simply don't have the time to be with them.
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129	* Escha Malier from ''VideoGame/AtelierEschaAndLogyAlchemistsOfTheDuskSky'' kinda fits into this. While she did grew up with her real mother teaching her alchemy, Escha's mother died when Escha was still very young and her father, while alive, was too busy with his work to make time for her. Escha was instead raised by Clone, an automaton who has been close friends with the Malier family for generations.
130	* Shay from ''VideoGame/BrokenAge'' was raised by his ship Bossa Nostra's AI. At the beginning of the game, he's starting to realize that his "mother" has been keeping secrets from him, and he longs to be free. [[spoiler:[[UnroboticReveal It turns out]] that "mother" is his ''[[SubvertedTrope actual]]'' mother.]]
131	* There seems to be several cases of this in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'', since many androids are [[RobotMaid housekeeper models]] whose duties often include caring for children. Most significantly, the character Kara is a general domestic android, but in particular, raises Alice more or less due to her MissingMom and abusive drug addict dad. [[spoiler:Subverted in the end when it is revealed that Alice is herself an android.]]
132	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
133	** The [[AllThereInTheManual Vault Dweller's memoirs]] in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'''s manual mention that the Vault Dweller was raised by a robot in Vault 13.
134	** Codsworth from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' was intended to be the robot butler for the protagonist and their family, up to and including helping them raise baby Shaun. Then the bombs fell.
135	* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': [[spoiler:The first generation of new humans, after the Earth was wiped clean of life]], were raised by three robot personalities: A doctor (Healer), a nurturer (Mother), and a disciplinarian (Father). They did reasonably well, but the children ended up staying in their care for far longer than intended because [[spoiler:a fourth personality intended to educate them and guide them into adulthood had been erased]], and they were never designed to handle angry teenagers. The children viewed Father and Healer as AbusiveParents (Father wouldn't let them do anything and defended himself when they attacked, Healer did nothing to stop him), but had a more positive view of Mother. [[spoiler:After the children left the Cradle facility and became the Nora tribe, the last lessons of Mother became central to their culture.]]
136	-->'''Teenage Girl:''' What will happen to you?\
137	'''Mother:''' I will stay here, and sleep, and remember all of you.\
138	'''Teenage Girl 2:''' What will happen to us?\
139	'''Mother:''' You will be brave, and you will learn.
140	* Elvis from ''VideoGame/MiasmaChronicles'' is an orphan in a post-apocalyptic world whose caretaker is a robot named Diggs.
141	* Flora Reinhold from ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage'' fits this trope to a T. After Flora's mother died, her father had [[spoiler:a robot version of her late mother]] built to make her happy. However, Flora was frightened of it. After her father died, the villagers took care of her, [[spoiler:all of whom happen to be robots built to amuse her and keep her company]].
142	* Zed, the RobotMaid of the SS Tetra in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris'', acts as the surrogate father for the ship's navigator Ess, who lovingly calls him "Papa". [[spoiler:He was actually built to serve this purpose by Ess's true father Ex, who couldn't raise her due to his work as the Keeper of Dimensions. Zed did such a good job at it that Ess legitimately believes Zed is her father and doesn't even recognize Ex (which WordOfGod states is not because of Ex's inability to be remembered, but because Ess is repressing her memories of him). [[BerserkButton It's a sore spot for him]].]]
143	* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' series features Servos, Simbots and Plumbots (introduced respectively in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'': ''Open for Business'', ''VideoGame/TheSims3'': ''Ambitions'' and ''VideoGame/TheSims3'': ''Into the Future''). Since they are fully sapient and [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots are for all intents and purposes robotic Sims]], they can marry (either [[RoboRomance other robots]] or [[{{Robosexual}} Sims]]) and adopt children and care for them just as well as organic Sims.
144	* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': One of the new robot star nation types introduced in ''Synthetic Dawn'' is the Rogue Servitors, effectively the end result of an organic species building robotic caretakers and servants and delegating the running of all aspects of their society to the machines to the point where the organics have been reduced to "bio-trophies" living out blissful lives in post-scarcity habitats maintained by the robots, [[GildedCage having everything they could ever want except for their freedom]]. Not satisfied with merely subjecting their creators to this fate, they want to go out into space and do this with ''all'' organic life. Whether they're [[CreepyGood well-intentioned]] or [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul not]] depends on your interpretation.
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147	[[folder:Webcomics]]
148	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
149	** Agatha was raised by constructs, and Gil and Theo considered their construct caretaker to be like a parent.
150	** The old Heterodynes (before Agatha's grandmother put a stop to the practice) were primarily raised by a horrific MonsterClown clank.
151	--->'''Gil:''' So this was the ''nursery''?\
152	'''Tarvek:''' [[ThisExplainsSoMuch It explains... so]] ''[[ThisExplainsSoMuch much]]''...
153	* Exaggerated in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Post-Scratch [[spoiler:Dirk Strider]] was raised by robots... that he [[SmartPeopleBuildRobots built himself]].
154	* In ''Webcomic/RobottoJukujo'', when Tomo's real mom left, his dad ordered a Robot Mom to look after him and do the chores
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157	[[folder:Western Animation]]
158	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "[[Recap/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBoldS2E9TheSuperBatmanOfPlanetX The Super-Batman of Planet X!]]", Tlano, the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, mentions that he was raised from childhood by his [[RobotMaid robot butler]] Alpha-Red.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' has a less dramatic example: one episode features [[InterspeciesAdoption a human girl adopted by robot parents]], but in this world, [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots robots are sapient and emotive]], so it's not really any weirder than, say, a white family adopting a black kid.
160	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
161	** PlayedForLaughs with the [[UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot Nannybots]] manufactured by Mom's Friendly Robot Company.
162	--->''"SLEEP, LITTLE DUMPLING. I HAVE REPLACED YOUR MOTHER."''
163	** Bender attempts this in "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E9TheCyberHouseRules The Cyber House Rules]]" when he adopts twelve kids from the "Orphanarium" where Leela grew up in an effort to get government stipends. Although he's a terrible parent and ultimately returns the orphans after finding out that they're costing him a lot more than he's receiving, all twelve of them adore "Daddy Bender," [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold and he loves them]].
164	--->'''Orphan:''' Our daddy's a ''giant toy!''
165	** There's also the episode of ShowWithinAShow ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Scary Door]]'' in which a lazy scientist builds a DoAnythingRobot and orders it to assume all his obligations. This naturally ends up with the robot taking over his entire life to the point of the scientist's human son [[ParentalSubstitute recognizing the robot as his father]].
166	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
167	** Irkens are so far past TheSingularity that they are [[UterineReplicator grown in factories]]. Zim loved the cold unfeeling robot arm that raised him.
168	** [[HeroAntagonist Dib]] and [[EnfantTerrible Gaz]] come pretty close -- their dad, [[ReluctantMadScientist Professor Membrane]], is such a {{Workaholic}} that he usually communicates with them through a floating screen, and at least some of the messages seem to be recordings.
169	* Rosie, the robotic nanny from ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons''.
170	* In ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'', [[CanonForeigner Superman-X]] was cloned from Superman's DNA and raised by the robot(s) who created him.
171	* {{Implied\|Trope}} with [[GadgeteerGenius Entrapta]] in ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', as a family portrait in her castle shows Entrapta with two robots in place of any biological parents.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'': Eric is left alone to run amok with only Maxum Brain, a hyperintelligent computer, to keep him in check.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' reveals that Miss Heinous was raised by a robot named "Saint Olga" after [[spoiler:King Shastacan decided to replace the queen's illegitimate child for being half-monster]]. Living up to the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors named after her, Saint Olga was incredibly repressive and controlling, though she was apparently programmed to be that way.
174	* Gyrus Krinkle of ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo''. He didn't grow up quite right.
175	* Larry 3000 from ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' acts as a maternal figure towards Otto, being the one who feeds him, clothes him, and, as revealed in the episode 'Ivan the Untrainable,' homeschools him. Buck's around, but isn't Otto's father and rarely gets parental, leaving Larry to be the one who has to take care of him.
176	* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] with Sari from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''. She's a human raised by a human, who later loses her father to kidnapping and has to live with the Autobots in a warehouse until he is rescued. [[spoiler:Then it's revealed that she's a techno-organic, which means that she was a robot raised by a human raised ''as'' a human later partly raised by robots.]]
177	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has a variation of this. At the start of the series, three of the Autobots are assigned a human child to watch out for and protect; Bumblebee with Raf, Bulkhead with Miko, and Arcee with Jack. While the three kids all have biological parents (or house parents, in Miko's case), they each form strong bonds with the Autobots over the course of the series (with Bulkhead serving as a father-figure for Miko, Arcee serving as a big sister for Jack, and Raf clearly viewing Bumblebee as an older sibling). Optimus Prime, naturally, serves as a father-figure to all of them ([[AFatherToHisMen but that's hardly a surprise...]]).
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