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6	->''"I constructed two advanced A.I. robots. You would call them Models DLN-001 and DLN-002. But I call them my'' '''''children.''''' ''I may have built them by hand, typed their coding myself, but as my children... they have enriched my life and helped me grow as a person. They've brought me the same fears'' '''''and''''' ''joys of any parent. No faceless, nameless, lifeless'' '''''tool''''' ''can do that!"''
7	-->-- '''Dr. Thomas Light''', ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics''
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9	Although mechanical beings are not 'related' in any true biological sense, the concept of robots being 'family' is nevertheless a common trope in sci-fi. After all, if robots can [[RoboticSpouse get married]], be [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots ridiculously human]], and be [[RobotBuddy loyal friends]], it makes perfect sense that robots would [[DoAndroidsDream develop]] their own sense of family.
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11	How seriously this term is applied usually depends on [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots how human-like]] they are, how well characters [[JustAMachine regard robots]], and how [[LighterAndSofter light]] the source material is. Sometimes the robots love each other just as much as any human family. Other times it's just a technical term used by humans.
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13	The main types of family are as follows:
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15	* '''Robot series:''' All of the robots are from the same 'series' which usually share similar designs and are usually all based off an original prototype. This can sometimes even apply to more advanced machines that follow the 'spirit' of the original design or carry on [[LegacyCharacter their legacy]].
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17	* '''Same creator:''' All of the robots have the same creator, making them a 'father/mother' to all the robots and making them 'siblings'. Sometimes the creator actually treats their creations like children, although some can get a bit [[MadScientist carried away]]. Expect a [[YoureNotMyFather You're Not My Father/Mother]] if a robotic 'son/daughter' [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turns against their creator.]] This usually overlaps with the above example, since the same creator would make similar robots. A builder treating his creation as his child is a trope dating back at least to ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}.''
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19	* '''Replacements, clones or copies:''' When a robot is [[BetaTestBaddie replaced]] with a better model, [[MechaMooks mass produced]], or copied by another party, this technically makes the two robots 'brothers' even though they're essentially the same person in terms of design. One of the robots is usually an [[ShadowArchetype evil]] version of the other, especially if they're angry of the existence of their 'sibling'.
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21	* '''Robot family:''' In a series where robots are allowed to live amongst humans, many robots form their own real robot 'family', usually by having robot parents making or adopting their children. Sometimes the siblings will look like they're 'related' but sometimes they can be mismatched.
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23	This trope is the most [[{{Pun}} 'family friendly']] kind of relationship that can happen between creators and fellow robots. Other kinds would be [[ThankTheMaker their creators being gods]], an empty technical term because the robots are [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence barely sentient]], or the robot [[AIIsACrapshoot considers itself above]] such petty 'relations'.
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25	Also compare RoboticSpouse for when a human has a romantic attachment to a robot, which can lead to a robot family when they adopt/make children. All of these types of robot family can include a RobotKid, often playing the role of "son" or "daughter".
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28	!!Examples
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32	[[folder:Advertisements]]
33	* One Duracell ad campaign featured the Puttermans, a nuclear family of [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver domestic suburbanites]] that ran on giant Duracell batteries.
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36	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
37	* ''Manga/AstroBoy'': The UrExample, Astro has his sister Uran (and a brother named Cobalt in the manga) as well as his own robotic parents, not to mention his 'sibling' Atlas that was based off his blueprints/made by the same creator.
38	* ''Manga/{{Chobits}}'': Chii has her sister [[spoiler:Freya]]. The chobits themselves were created to be surrogate daughters for a woman who couldn't give birth.
39	* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': Doraemon and Dorami are considered siblings because they were created from the same oil can.
40	* In ''Manga/PrincessResurrection'' each of the royal siblings have there own android who are also called siblings: [[AlliterativeFamily Flandre, Francisca, Francette, Flanders and Franz]] - and probably several more.
41	* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' brought us the Autobot Brothers: Prowl, X-Brawn and Sideburn. Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus are also brothers.
42	* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] considers [[PerversePuppet Chachazero]] her older sister because both of them were created from Evangeline's magic. She also views all of the robots that her other creators (Chao and Hakase) made as her younger siblings. She also views her three creators as her parents.
43	* Machine People in the Anime/{{Leijiverse}} (featured in ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' 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.
44	* Title robot Signal in ''Manga/TwinSignal'' considers Pulse to be his brother because they were created by the same man. He also considers the human little boy Nobu to be his little brother because, personality-wise, he was programmed to act that way -- but he says he'd think of Nobu that way even if it ''wasn't'' in his programming.
45	* A trio of mech toys being considered a family is a RunningGag in ''Manga/MyNeighborSeki''. The toys are Seki's, and he (eventually Yokoi as well) treats them all like a family unit and creates escapades for them.
46	* Married robot couples are all over the place in ''Manga/{{Pluto}}''. The main character is a married robot himself. They're treated extremely sympathetically, with the main character even comforting one rather-less-human-looking robot when she learns she's become a widow.
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50	* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Ultron, the premier KillerRobot of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, has created a whole bunch of other robots and cyborgs (The Vision, Jocasta, Alkhema, Antigone, Victor Mancha) whom he explicitly refers to as a family. Most of them have ended up betraying him. Ultron's family also includes his creator Hank Pym and the various people whose brain patterns he's copied into his creations. Things get extra-complicated when you throw in Vision's children with Scarlet Witch -- his non-robot, human children, who are still related to their parents even though they were reincarnated and born to different families... yeah. The end result is a robot being the grandfather of two organic individuals. Taken one step further in ''ComicBook/TheVision2015'' series, in which he creates a robotic wife, son, daughter, and eventually even a dog.
51	* ''ComicBook/MetalMen'': In most versions, the Metal Men are simply a small group of robots all built by the same guy, so they have become TrueCompanions. Generally speaking, they don't consider Doc to be their "father" -- after all, Platinum is ''in love'' with him.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{The Outsiders\|DCComics}}'': The Nuclear Family are a group of robotic villains designed to resemble a fifties family of dad, mom, son, daughter, baby, and dog. Whether they actually regard each other as a family, or are even self-aware enough to do so, varies by the continuity.
53	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
54	** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' takes the usual mess of Transformers who consider themselves brothers etc. and aggravates it further because in [=IDW1=], Transformers are typically born from a ''[[BizarreAlienReproduction big flat area of ground]]'', so why only some of them consider themselves siblings and don't extend that to others from the same hot spot is anyone's guess. Some of them even have common family appearances (the House of Ambus [[RobotHair moustache]], for example, or the knight-styled visors on Tracks and Needlenose); Arcee and Galvatron were near-identical twins until Arcee transitioned. As for parenting, the Scavengers end up adopting an organic kid with an implanted spark and Anode at one point suggests to her wife Lug that they should settle down and raise some "kids".
55	** ''ComicBook/Transformers2019'' provides comparative relief for the franchise in that both of the main family structures get explanations: Cliffjumper is Bumblebee's "brother" because the two were born from the same spark event (with CJ showing up considerably later), and since newborn Transformers are always assigned to someone else to mentor, that basically means they end up having at least one adoptive parent, like Cryak was for Starscream (Gauge, having been assigned to Arcee, got a second adoptive mother in Greenlight as a freebie).
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59	* ''{{Franchise/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]].
60	* ''Fanfic/TheBridgeMLP'' gives us a {{Cyborg}} variant of the trope with Gigan and Megalon. By merit of having the same creators, the M Nebulans, who made them; both organics and mechanical parts included. The latter vocally and eagerly considers the former his big brother. The [[AloofBigBrother more reserved Gigan]] might be a bit less chatty about it, but he does acknowledge the younger kaiju as relation despite their biological parts being completely different species. The bond was strong enough that Gigan unwittingly managed to channel Equestrian magic based on ThePowerOfFriendship and ThePowerOfLove during a moment of BigBrotherInstinct when Megalon was in danger.
61	* ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' has the Clockwork Smurf family, featuring the original Clockwork Smurf, Clockwork Smurfette, their offspring Baby Clockwork Smurf, and a hundred other Clockwork Smurfs.
62	* Played with a bit in ''Fanfic/MegaManDefenderOfTheHumanRace''.
63	** As always, Rock and Roll are Dr. Light's kids first and foremost. Proto Man is still their sibling by being constructed off the same plans. Since Dr. Wily was the one to finish assembling him in this continuity, Wily considers Proto more his kid than Dr. Light's.
64	** Robots generally only consider each other siblings if they were built using the same base plans. Hence, the original six Robot Masters don't consider themselves brothers to Mega Man and Roll or each other. Proto Man even asks if Bass is technically a new brother to him, which is given a negative as Wily built him using a new set of plans. Bass does like to rile up Proto Man by calling him "big brother". Even Dr. Light comments that X technically won't be a sibling to his other robots in that sense.
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67	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
68	* The Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' has this, most notably with a main character who has a mom and dad.
69	* Mr Clicky, a clockwork rat who somehow has a personality and free will in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingMaurice'', is last seen married to an alarm clock, with two kids who look like [[PatchworkKids clockwork rats with bells]].
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72	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
73	* In the movie continuity of ''[[Film/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 descendant of one of them. Oh and The Twins, who are... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin robot twins]].
74	* ''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".
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77	[[folder:Literature]]
78	* Madeline Ashby's ''Literature/MachineDynasty'' series has [[VonNeumannMachine von Neumann]] androids who eat plastics, metals, and e-waste to grow and give birth to robot babies. Some of them marry humans and raise children together.
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81	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
82	* Data and Lore in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' are "brothers", and both acknowledge their creator Dr. Soong as their father. Data later makes an android of his own named Lal in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS3E16TheOffspring The Offspring]]", who is his "daughter". Dr. Soong's wife Julianna Tainer is treated as Data's mother when she visits ''Enterprise'' in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E9Inheritance Inheritance]]" to share embarrassing stories about his early days. [[spoiler:She's actually an android duplicate of the original Dr. Tainer, who was fatally injured by the Crystalline Entity.]]
83	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E21RealLife Real Life]]", the EMH (a holographic doctor with ArtificialIntelligence) creates his own family on the holodeck. Unfortunately, they're so [[SickeninglySweet nauseatingly perfect]] that B'Elanna Torres reprograms them to give him some family angst.
84	* In ''Series/RedDwarf'', [[spoiler: Kryten has a brother named Able]] and they were both created by the same woman.
85	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
86	** The villains of ''Series/ChourikiSentaiOhranger''/''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' are an evil robot royal family.
87	** 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.
88	* In the "Baby" episode of ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'', we find out Plex the robot has a niece named Plexy.
89	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': The relationships between the Guys Shot Up In Space and the Bots has frequently been worded in familial terms. Joel (their creator) was the TeamDad, Mike was more of a big brother, Jonah is somewhere between the kid next door and a stepdad angling for the kids' approval. Then there's the sibling rivalry-esque hostility Crow and Tom Servo display towards the two robots Jonah builds.
90	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E12Glitch Glitch]]", [[spoiler:the androids Tom and Wendy Seymour have built a daughter for themselves]].
91	* Horobi and Jin from ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne''. Horobi is a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Humagear]] programmed to act as a surrogate father, and Jin is the Humagear he built and raised. The two often refer to each other as father and son, and the family relationship between them constitutes a major emotional arc of the show.
92	* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': The sapient basically-robots made by the {{Precursors}}, starting with what are implied to be a series of three {{Sapient Ship}}s, then expanded on in ''Princesses on the Lonely Isle'' with a remote outpost occupied by a much more humanoid-form creation, who calls one of the ships, "sister":
93	--> '''Soledad:''' greetings my sister i wish thee well this day
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96	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
97	* The TabletopGame/{{Mystara}} setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had the Hephaestons, a race of literal iron giants. They reproduced by a male and a female literally forging a child, and then adding a bit of molten metal from each of their own bodies to grant it life.
98	* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' "Cogs" have digital brains designed to grow and develop like organics. And that means they have childhoods where they go through a series of progressively larger chassis over twenty years. Generally they're raised by other Cogs but "inter-racial" families and adopted siblings are mentioned as occurring between Vectors and Cogs.
99	** The Core: Extended book elaborates. They're actually capable of "sexual" reproduction using an internal manufacturing device that constructs a new "brain" and newborn chassis from a combination of both parents' blueprints, or genes. And it's possible to make sperm with genomes translated from a Cog's chassis as well.
100	* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': Prometheans must create another of their kind in order to BecomeARealBoy. The exact relationship between a Promethean and their progeny is often extremely complicated, and usually some combination of parent/child, siblings, rivals, occasionally lovers, and unfortunately more often than not [[IHateYouVampireDad blood enemies]]. The Unfleshed take it a step further - as they're technological creations that gained life, they and their progeny are often ''literal'' robot families.
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103	[[folder:Video Games]]
104	* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': Mega Man/Rockman, Roll, and Proto Man/Blues are all considered siblings, as it wasn't obvious from the ThemeNaming. Doctor Light is usually considered to be a father to all of them.
105	** Also, it was widely speculated that Dr. Light built the three in a sense that he actually wanted to have his own children.
106	** Heck, the Robot Masters of ''1'', ''9'', and ''[[VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp Powered Up]]'' can count as well. Not that it stops some of the ''Powered Up'' robots from [[BrotherSisterIncest hitting on Roll]].
107	** ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' also counts, both being a creation of Light as well as being carrying on Mega Man's 'legacy'.
108	** Iris and Colonel are considered brother and sister because they were supposed to be the same reploid, but were split into two. Also Techno and Midi, who shared the same CPU.
109	** If we're going by the '''same creator'''-type of family like Dr. Light, don't leave [[BigBad Dr. Wily]] out of it either. His family, however, is just as rebellious as ''he'' is. Take a look at Bass [[spoiler:and Zero]], for starters.
110	*** [[spoiler:And in ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', Dr. Wily appears in Zero's ending, ''and he actually called Zero his son!'']]
111	** 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 as being created from ''[[VideoGame/MegaManX X's]]'' DNA, making him their "father".
112	** In ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'', Professor Gaudile is a recluse scientist who built the Force Metal Generator and Cinnamon, to whom he is overprotective, sheltering Cinnamon for most of her early life.
113	** ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' reveals that Grey has a family [[spoiler:with [[CoDragons Prometheus and Pandora]] as his older siblings and [[BigBad Master Albert]] as the father. Sufficient to say, it's a DysfunctionalFamily since his older siblings and dad have used and tried to kill him, Albert tortured Prometheus and Pandora for most of their lives and Prometheus and Pandora want and tried to kill him for it, and Grey himself ends up killing Albert in the end]].
114	* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', Robo and his fellow R-series robots are never actually called "brothers", but they do share a bond - or at least they [[FaceHeelTurn used to]].
115	* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Aigis and [[spoiler:Metis]] are said to be sisters...
116	** Also, all of the anti-shadow weapons that were built with Aigis are referred to as her sisters.
117	* In ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', MOMO's relationship with the 100-Series Realians who preceded her is also akin to sisterhood.
118	* The various members of the E-100 series in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' are considered siblings. This becomes weird at the end of E-102's story, when [[spoiler:it turns out that the bird powering his body is part of the same family as the bird powering his older brother]].
119	* This can be done in ''VideoGame/TheSims'' of all places, particularly Sims 2. 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.
120	* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'', Chlorseraph and Clinoseraph, who have similar designs and were created for the same purpose, are referred to as brothers.
121	* 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 ''VideoGame/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".]]
122	* The plot of the ''VideoGame/{{KOLM}}'' series has yet to be fully explained, but the robotic protagonist regards his VoiceWithAnInternetConnection as his "mother," and at one point says that the robots that're trying to kill him are his "brothers." [[spoiler:Subverted: In the end, he finally remembers "[[BrainUploading when I was made of meat]]," and in the second game his "sister" turns out to be human.]]
123	* The ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable'' series has the Eltrian Gears, a.k.a, [[spoiler:Amitie and Kyrie Florian, who were created by an intelligent, bumbling scientist who accidentally overdid their personality chips and so decided to raise them as his daughters. Amitie also refers to all the later models as her brothers and sisters, despite none of them being truly sentient like her and Kyrie.]]
124	* According to ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'', [[TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} warforged]] often consider others from the same factory to be family of sorts.
125	* A large plotpoint in ''VideoGame/Fallout4''. A group called the [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate 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.
126	* The Mighty Numbers of ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'', whom are a family among themselves as siblings and treat Beck, the newest member of their family, like a kid brother and they even help him out in gameplay after Beck snaps them out of the virus afflicting them. [[spoiler:However, unbeknownst to Beck that he had two other potential siblings before he was created; Trinity, who was Professor's first attempt of making a Xel-manipulating robot that went rogue but has gotten better thanks to clashing with Beck during the game'x climax, and RAY -- formally Raychel -- whose body is constantly deteriorating and has gone berserk due to her faulty Xel core.]]
127	* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'':
128	** In the first game Clank refers to the automated factory that built him as his "mother", and a heart symbol appears on its control panel as they're leaving. Oddly, he doesn't seem to mind Ratchet smashing up the other robots "mom" built.
129	** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'' reveals that Orvus not only caused the "glitch" that produced Clank, but gave him a [[EnergyBeings Zoni]] soul, making him Clank's father in a way.
130	** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'' EquippableAlly Mr. Zurkon can be upgraded and joined up by Zurkon Jr. and later Mrs. Zurkon. AlternateUniverse versions of them appear in ''Rift Apart'' that are somewhat less violent and more [[IntrepidMerchant entrepreneurial]] in bent.
131	** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankRiftApart'' Dr. Nefarious mentions his assistant is on paternity leave [[spoiler: and in the credit sequence we see his long-standing robot butler Lawrence with a wife and child.]]
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135	* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob”''-- Molly built a robot named Roofus who calls her "Mom."
136	* ''Webcomic/NeverMindTheGap'': Robots have family units, and raise children. [[{{Robosexual}} Humans and robots can marry]], as well as have [[DesignerBabies robot children]].
137	* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': The [[KillerRobot Inlay]] [[ChessMotifs King]] "Arthur" acquired the ability to partially copy himself from a fragment of [[ContagiousAI the Oracle's]] source code and produced a series of custom knight models he called his [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20150528.html "sons"]]. He also calls Elizabeth, the fabricator AI that built his chassis, "mother" but it's mostly to annoy her. [[spoiler: He also provided the AI cores for her private army, but doesn't think of them as his children.]]
138	* During the first arc of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', the newly-assembled Robot calls Antimony "Mommy". After he returns later in the comic, he seems to have outgrown this, but still defers to her.
139	* Roombas in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' can breed. No-one is sure how, least of all the manufacturer. Also Pintsize was shocked when a documentary on how [=AnthroPCs=] are made involved two [=AnthroPCs=] having sex and he thought one of them might be his mom.
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143	* In ''Website/OrionsArm'' Clade Faber usually form "reprogroups" that cooperate to construct new vecs and program them with partial copies of their personalities.
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147	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'': Jenny has several "sisters" who are actually failed prototypes created by her inventor who have since been shut down and locked up in the basement.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Sideswipe and Sunstreaker are twin brothers, who have a "family resemblance" in their shared [[TransformingMecha vehicle mode]]. Optimus Prime considers Alpha Trion his "father", as he rebuilt him from his previous civilian form, Orion Pax, into his current state after Megatron nearly killed him. (Alpha Trion did the same thing for his girlfriend Ariel, who was turned into Elita One. Note that this doesn't make Optimus and Elita related; they already existed individually and were in a relationship before being repaired.)
149	** Rattrap from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' made a throwaway reference to his [[ShoutOut "Great Aunt Arcee"]].
150	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' had Jetfire and Jetstorm refer to each other as brothers. Unlike the likes of Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, an explanation is provided: they came from a single [[OurSoulsAreDifferent spark]] that split into two at 'birth'.
151	*** Transformers in general has plenty of these. Of course, being {{Mechanical Lifeform}}s as opposed to just simple robots helps. However, the Transformer life cycle is addressed on occasion, and as those tidbits add up, the Protoforms/Sparks/Matrix/Lifegiving MacGuffin stuff makes it ''extremely'' unlikely that the words "When two robots who love each other very, very much..." are involved, so how you get relatives is still a good question. [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Relatives See here for more info]].
152	** The [[Franchise/TransformersAlignedUniverse Aligned continuity]] implies that Orion Pax (the future Optimus Prime) is a descendant of Prima, one of the Thirteen Primes, the original Cybertronians created by Primus himself. [[spoiler:Except not. ''Covenant of Primus'' reveals that Orion Pax was the reincarnation of the last of the Thirteen to be created: Optimus Prime. This doesn't make Optimus Prima's descendant -- it makes him, for all intents and purposes, Prima's ''brother''.]]
153	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}'' involved Robotboy finding out he had a prototype older brother ("Protoboy") that had to be shut down by Moshimo (their creator) after he was turned evil by Kamikazi and went [[AxCrazy insane]]. The episode revolves around the ever-naive Robotboy finding the deactivated Protoboy in Kamikazi's Rejects closet and turning him back on. The results aren't pretty.
154	** Similarly, a different episode involved Moshimo making a companion ("Robotgirl") for Robotboy. So Robotboy, Robotgirl and Protoboy are all siblings, technically.
155	* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' uses the "same creator" version, in that Rusty and the woman who built him have a mother/son relationship. When she explains to an older scientist that she based Rusty off his research, Rusty starts calling him "Grandpa".
156	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBotsMaster'': ZZ invokes this by creating Momzz, a mother figure robot for the BOYZZ (they are also his creations, but he has a friend/peer relationship with them, as that's what they were built for originally).
157	* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[MadScientist T. O. Morrow]] considers his four element-controlling robots (Red Tornado, Red Inferno, Red Torpedo, and Red Volcano) to be his children, and they refer to him as "father", even though Tornado is no longer remotely loyal to him and [[spoiler: Red Volcano kills him and hijacks his world-domination plan]]. They also refer to each other as siblings. In a rather heartwarming moment, Red Tornado [[spoiler:locates the real Morrow, a bed-ridden old man on life support, and promises to take care of him just like any other loving son would do for his father.]]
158	* Skyquake and his PaletteSwap twin, Dreadwing, from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', are the closest to what can be considered robot relatives. Twin brothers in this case, as they share a split spark and have a form of TwinTelepathy. Dreadwing felt it when Skyquake died. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge He didn't take it well.]]
159	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' robots are apparently capable of sexual reproduction. As such families of robots are fairly common, Bender has at least two illegitimate offspring.
160	** A recent episode explains it: while most robots are made in factories, two robots can also reproduce sort-of-sexually, using a "randomized combination equation" or something like that, which pulls parts randomly from both parents to form a single new robot.
161	*** He also refers to the factory robot that built him as his "mother", and Flexo is treated as some vaguely defined family member due to being the same model and them both having serial numbers expressible as the sum of two cubes.
162	*** The head of Earth's major robot company calls herself "Mom" and treats all robots as her "babies" ([[NiceCharacterMeanActor in her public persona]], anyway). [[LovedByAll The robots love her right back]], to sickening degrees.
163	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/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.
164	* In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius,'' Jimmy decides that [[SiblingsWanted he wants a little brother]], and builds one. When "Brobot" becomes annoying, however, he decides to build him robot parents, and the three fly off to live together on the moon. They come back in at least one episode.
165	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MegaManFullyCharged'' universe, robot hero Aki "Mega Man" Light has a human father and sister, while one of the robot antagonists, Drill Man, has a robot father with a strained relationship.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': The Boxmore robots see each other as siblings and refer to Lord Boxman as their father. Boxman, in turn, sees them as his children, [[AbusiveParents though he’s not exactly a great dad]].
167	* Norm from ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' sees his creator, Dr. Doofenshmirtz, as his father (which is very much not reciprocated) and Doofenshmirtz's human daughter as his sister.
168	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' had Firestorm trying to stop the meltdown of a nuclear power plant being orchestrated by a group called The Nuclear Family, a literal robot family (including a dog) that needed ambient nuclear energy to run properly.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'': While Proto Man was finished by Wily instead of Light in this continuity, he still considers himself the brother of Rock and Roll due to being built from the same plans.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'': XR and XL consider each other brothers due to XL being the prototype of XR. Both of them also see Commander Nebula as their father due to him being the one who signed off on the paperwork that permitted their construction.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': Craving parental affection, Dr. Eggman built himself a Mombot to serve as a motherly substitue. He later gained a brother in the form of Morpho, an alternate dimension shape-shifting robot who first appeared claiming to be his long-lost brother Steve Eggman.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Robotnik decides to build himself a son named Robotnik Jr. to carry on his legacy. Junior turns on his dad by episode's end.
173	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' creepily combines this with TomatoInTheMirror. Jack encounters a desperate family consisting of a mother, her child, a grandmother and father. They tell Jack that they haven't eaten in days. Jack responds by pointing to the fire he built using his sword, adding that they're welcome to share his food with him. He sits to wait for the meal to finish cooking, only for the child to walk over to the sword and attempt to bite it. It turns out the family eats metal and they're more than willing to attack Jack to get ahold of his sword. Jack reluctantly defends himself and in the process, knocks away the mothers face, revealing her to be a robot that's made entirely of metal along with the rest of the family. They all subsequently attack and devour each other until there isn't anything left but a pile of savaged parts.
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