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-->-- ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' by '''Creator/NealStephenson'''

* ''Anime/TheAnimatrix'' has a few robots riding robotic "horses" into combat in ''The Second Renaissance: Part II''. One scene has a Machine ride a mechanical "horse" while blowing a trumpet before finally falling. As with the later Machines (such as sentinels), the "horse" only remsembles a horse [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/matrix/images/2/29/A-anim.181.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130128062320 in general form and design]].
* ''Anime/BtX'': X and Shadow, although Kirins, are essentially {{Cool|Horse}} Mechanical Horses. Ones that let you [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breath in space]].
* ''Literature/CrestOfTheStars''. There is a robotic horse children guide (along with other robotic animals) in a theme park. The protagonists enlist its help in escaping, resulting an a ChaseScene.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDorabianNights'', an installment of the series where the gang enters the world of Arabian Nights, have them meeting Sinbad (a RetiredBadass in this incarnation) who owns various artifacts from the Arabian Nights stories, including the Ebony Horse from the Arabian Nights tale of the same name which turns out to be a mechanical flying animal. The final battle notably have Sinbad riding the horse and battling the main villain, Abdil, on the rooftops as Sinbad's castle takes flight.
* The Count in ''Anime/{{Gankutsuou}}'' has a [[RuleOfCool hovering carriage drawn by mechanical horses]].
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' gives us Fuunsaiki, a [[HumongousMecha Mecha]] horse piloted by an ''actual'' horse.
** Which was likely inspired by ''SD Gundam'', which frequently featured mechanical horses due to its heavy use of samurai and knight settings. Some characters (such as Musha Zeta and Knight Gundam), even have centaur forms where they can combine with their steed. Perhaps topping them all, Ryofu Tallgeese in the current (as of early 2009) series SD Gundam Toys/BBSenshiSangokuden has a powerful robotic horse that can also transform into a motorbike.
** ''Anime/SDGundamForce'' gives us two, well, three example, all originating from the country of Ark, which has influences from ''Anime/GGundam'' and the Musha Gundam series';
** The first is Entengo, Bakunetsumaru's steed, widely believed to be an {{Expy}} of Fuunsaiki.
** Next are the horses pulling Kibaomaru's chariot Oshogo. According to the [[ShowWithinTheShow Zako Zako Hour]], their names are Kakuryu and Hiryu. Given that Kibaomaru is an {{Expy}} of the Zeus Gundam, it's more than likely that Oshogo is a reference to the Hercules Chariot used by that Gundam.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': [[TheDragon Baron Ashura]] sometimes rode a large, pink, mechanical horse (seen for first time in episode 17). His Iron Mask [[{{Mook}} troops]] also used mechanical horses in some scenes.
** In ''Anime/ShinMazinger'' the Iron Masks also ride robotical horses.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Among ''Gun-Gale Online''[='=]s in-game vehicles are robotic horses. In an amusing [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of AutomatonHorses, they are fully robotic, but notorious for being more temperamental than actual horses, to the point where players who can ride in real life can't get them to listen.
* Literature/VampireHunterD has a Cool ''Cyborg'' Horse, as his stories are set in 12,000 A.D. The novels however state that his cyborg horses (he goes through several) are just standard model with nothing special about them in the context of the setting, but somehow he manages to make them incredibly fast and agile just by sitting on their back.
* In ''Literature/InfiniteDendrogram'' there are a series of mechanical steeds known as Prism Steeds, created by an ancient civilization. While there are replicas in the modern age, the original series are both rare and valuable enough that a player could be murdered over it.

* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': In a ''Paperinik'' story (NOT from ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''), Gyro Gearloose creates one for the eponymous hero after Scrooge [=McDuck=] confiscates Donald's car.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': One of Obadiah Stane's [[ChessMotifs Chessmen]], the Knight, had a mechanical flying horse.
* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' story ''ComicBook/SupergirlsThreeSuperGirlfriends'', after inducting ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and Brainiac 5 into the team, the Legion hold a celebratory parade wherein the three founding members ride grey robot-horses.

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* The mine-robbers that the four encounter in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' ride six clockwork robotic horses that combine into a HumongousMecha that kicks Paul about 300 feet away.
* ''Fanfic/BreathOfTheWild'' adapts the namesake game, including the various [=DLCs=] for the game, such as "The Champions' Ballad". At the end of it, Link fights Monk Maz Koshia, and earns the Master Cycle Zero, which just as in canon, is unicorn-shaped. [[spoiler: Except this time, there's also Divine Beast Vah Eponia, named for Link's loyal horse throughout the ages, and the Divine Beast of nature which is also shaped like a massive horse. Monk Maz Koshia serves as its pilot in place of Link by whom the beast is meant to be piloted.]]

* According to the children's film ''Film/SantaClaus1959'', our hero's sleigh is pulled by hideous giggling clockwork reindeer.
* A clockwork horse features prominently in the Literature/ArabianNights based movie ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'' as well. [[EvilChancellor Jaffar]] offers it to [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter The Sultan of Basra]], a toy collector, in exchange for his daughter. (''See also'' {{Literature}}, ''below.'')
* General Grievous' Tsmeu-6 Bike from ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' is able to function both as a [[MonowheelMayhem monowheel]] and a four-legged running beast.

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* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book ''Literature/PortalOfEvil'' featured a flying metal horse, which was owned by the Wizard of the Lake. He gives you (the PC) a ride on it.

* Obviously drawing on such tales Chaucer in the [[Literature/TheCanterburyTales "The Squire's Tale"]] told a very similar steed being gifted to UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan alongside other wondrous items. Yes you read that right.
* ''Literature/TheDarkSideOfTheSun,'' a science fiction novel by Creator/TerryPratchett, features robot horses on a world of nothing but MechanicalLifeforms. The horses are sapient, and have a philosophical outlook on life.
** Pratchett's later book ''Literature/{{Strata}}'', contains a similar mechanical horse ''that can fly.'' The book says it runs on magic.
** Pratchett touched on the subject again in his ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/MakingMoney''. The horses are golems -- clay automatons -- and the only one to ride them notes just how uncomfortable a terra cotta saddle is. And don't ask about the Igor horses built from spare parts...
*** That one character reasons that, since (some) golems ''can'' talk (it partially has to do with how they're "built"), then... why can't a golem horse? So he asks one what it wants. And gets an answer: permission to actually '''act''' like a horse, including time to just run around, and occasionally roll around in fields.
--->"... 'Give me Livery, or Give Me Death'."
* ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' by Creator/NealStephenson has mechanical horses; one of the main characters is given one with directions preprogrammed into it as a way of taking him to a secret location. Interesting in that they're specifically mentioned as being capable of using different gaits: galloping like a horse on smooth, level terrain, but more like a big cat when walking on steep, uneven terrain.
* Creator/RogerZelazny: Bronze, the Steel General's steed in ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'' is a magically-enhanced mechanical horse that can ride through space. With each step it takes, it travels twice as far as the previous. It is said that with a sufficient run-up, it could circumnavigate the universe in a single stride.
* Do cyborg horses count? Creator/ChinaMieville's [[Literature/BasLagCycle Bas-Lag]], the world of ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', includes Remade horses as well as criminals.
* ''The Quest for Saint Aquin'', a 1951 short story by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass" ("robot [[StubbornMule ass]]") which happened to be an atheist. The story takes place in a post-nuclear war United States where roads are in poor repair, hence the need for an automated horse rather than AutomatedAutomobiles (though the robass does have wheels it can deploy if the surface allows).
* Creator/JulesVerne's steam elephant from ''The Steam House'' is an early example.
* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' novel ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla". The "wolves" that kidnap children from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis every generation appear as wolf-masked riders, but are actually robots mounted on mechanical horses.
* In ''The Marran God of Fire'' by Aleksandr Volkov (one of the ''Literature/TalesOfTheMagicLand'' series), there are two mechanical mules built by Alfred Canning for Annie Smith and her friend Tim O'Kelly. The children name them Caesar and Hannibal and ride them to the Magical Land, where the mechanical mounts become alive and, like the dog Totoshka, are able to talk.
* The Hephaestus cabin from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' made some mechanical horses for a chariot race.
* In the ''Literature/WarlockOfGramarye'' series, this overlaps with SapientSteed, as the main character's horse, Fess, is a highly intelligent AI placed in a mechanical horse.
* In ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere'', the "Iron Horse" that was used to pull heavy loads before being replaced by the locomotive is implied to be one of these, since it had the drawback of producing "Monster Piles of Iron Droppings."
* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': Xayide created hollow metal horses that she could control with her mind. Bastian, due to Auryn, could also control these horses and rode one away from a battle until it shattered from overuse.

* In ''Series/{{Garo}}'', after a Makai Knight seals 100 Horrors, they can take a test to see if they're worthy to ride one. These horses are made of metal and has the power to enhance the rider's weapons.
** GARO, ZERO and DAN's horses are named Gouten,[[note]]''Thunderous Sky''[[/note]] Ginga[[note]]''Silver Fang''[[/note]] and Hayate[[note]]''Swift Wind''[[/note]] respectively. It's still unknown how KIBA obtains his horse Raigou though.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' and its counterpart ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', TheDragon has a HellishHorse from the underworld that can grow giant, and turn into a horse mecha. He can [[CombiningMecha combine]] with it to form a mecha-centaur, and then ''further'' combine with it to form a horse-based [[HumongousMecha Megazord.]] TheHero can form this Megazord as well, and they later one-upped themselves by giving him his own mecha ''unicorn.''
** And a later villain has a chariot pulled by two similar mecha-horses.
* In the ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' series, the artificial horses are built in much of the same manner as their human counterparts, and consist largely of tissues similar to organic ones, operated by a control unit in their skull. Like all animals in the Delos parks, they are of a lower intelligence than the humanoid hosts. They exhibit typical horse-like behaviour, but don't seem vulnerable to the simulated ammunition ("simunition") used by park guests and the parks' host characters.

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* A Canadian indie rock band called RockPlazaCentral has an entire concept album called ''Are We Not Horses?'' -- all about robot horses who achieve sentience.
* During their most recent tour, Music/TakeThatBand had a [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2477/3671943867_2c950189d4_o.jpg giant mechanical elephant.]]
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* In the second episode of Podcast/StationArcadia, Noah rides a diesel powered horse through a war zone too toxic for live horses.
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* In a ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' audio, it's revealed [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul the Cyber]][[BodyHorror men]] had first cyberconverted horses. The result is HellishHorse, as by Cyberman norm, it's a corpse laden with cybernetics.
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* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', Clan Hell's Horses rather unsurprisingly created an [[HumongousMecha Omnimech]], the Balius, and a [[PowerArmor Battle Armor]] suit, the Buraq, that are both stylized to look like horses.

* In the tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', some characters can create horse-like constructs of bonded magical energy, or own magitek constructs as steeds.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' features [[http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440090a&prodId=prod1530056a the mechanical steed]]. This is sufficiently ridiculous for even the distinctively over-the-top Warhammer world that many Empire players consider it FanonDiscontinuity. Empire army book author [[http://www.warvault.net/interview.php Graham McNeill]] considers it the Empire's attempt to invent the car. Oh and it shoots ''lightning, from its eyes''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

** Speaking of the Mechanicus, in 2020 they received a fully playable example of this trope in the form of the Serberys Cavalry, available in two flavours: the [[SwordAndGun Serberys Raiders]] and their [[ArmedLegs clawed]] robot horses; and the [[GunsAkimbo Serberys Sulphurhounds]], who are more partial to [[BreathWeapon fire-breathing]] robot ''greyhounds''.

* ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' has a robotic horse called ''Stridor.'' Fisto is seen riding it in this promotional poster.[[https://static1.comicvine.com/uploads/original/4/49448/2661828-stridorart.jpg]]
** Not to be outdone, the Evil Warriors got [[EvilKnockoff Night Stalker]] who was usually seem being ridden by [[EvilCounterpart Jitsu]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has an ad for [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Giddyup_Buttercup "Giddyup Buttercup"]] ("The Ultimate in Equestrian Robotics!") appear in multiple locations. In the Mothership Zeta add-on you find a room full of them in the alien mothership - [[BewareTheNiceOnes along with a number of dead aliens that have apparently been kicked to death]].
* The Mechanostriders (mechanical ''ostriches'') from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.
* The Genesis game ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'' has Wolfgunblood Garopa as boss of Stage 23, who is a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot mechanical cowboy wolf]] with a machine-gun pistol riding one of these.

* ''VideoGame/RobotUnicornAttack''. Speaks for itself.
* ''VideoGame/{{BioShock Infinite}}'' features mechanical horses. According to the ''Bioshock'' website, the mechanical horses called Automated Stallions were meant to replace horses on Columbia that were more likely fall off the floating city when startled by weather conditions and enemy attacks.
* The Defiant faction in ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'' can get "eldritch steeds", which play the trope straight with {{magitek}}.
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIII'', [[SummonMagic Odin]]'s 'Gestalt Mode' is a mecha warhorse that inexplicably wafts rose petals in its wake.
* In ''VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny'', Jubei finds a strange metal sphere with an indentation bearing the word "Faith." When Jubei uses the Faith Orb given to him by Oyu on the sphere it unpacks into a mechanical horse.
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', anyone who promotes into the [[http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Mechanist Mechanist]] class rides a puppet mount that looks like a Chinese lion.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has a mechanical horse that sometimes appears in the background of the Salt Mines stage. This character is a backer reward who was based on the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfiction character, [[Fanfic/TheIronHorseEverythingsBetterWithRobots Turing Test]].
* ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': Since all the machines are built to look like animals, there's naturally a machine horse, called a Strider. Aloy can tame them and use them as mounts once she figures out how to hack machines.

* Gertrude, Brunhilda & Nikki of the webcomic ''Webcomic/TheKamics'' received mechanical pegasi as a gift from the webcomic ''Webcomic/MagicalMisfits''. Nikki's pegasus was shown to convert into a convertible.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One of the accomplishments of the Spark known as the Iron Sheik is that [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030905 he built a Mechanical Camel]].
** Bill and Barry Heterodyne rode to Mechanicsburg on horse clanks faster than possible when they heard about the attack.
** One of the Foglios' interludes involves a Spark opera featuring a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext mechanical roller-skating giraffe]]. There's no mention of it being ridden, which is probably for the better.
* At one point in ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', Rufioh was seriously injured. In order to save him, his boyfriend Horuss built him a mechanical body. And because [[MeaningfulName Horuss]] has a creepy horse obsession, he made the body in the shape of a mechanical horse so Rufioh would better fit Horuss' ideal vision.
* ''Webcomic/{{Crankrats}}'', befitting its {{steampunk}} acumen, has these and they're programmable. Just enter your destination and there you go.
* In ''Webcomic/MerchantBand'', Amira has full control of an Orb Stallion which is essentially a {{Magitek}} horse with an orb for a head.
* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Galatea spends much of "The Island and the Idol" ark trying to get a powerful being to give her a flying pony. He never does... but at the end of the story arc, she actually does get a ''mechanical'' pegasus, and seems reasonably happy with it;.

* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', Stalwart likes to go around in Arthurian-looking PoweredArmor he built himself. He has a robot horse he rides too. It still breaks down a lot. He is only in high school.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' had a talking cyborg horse named 30-30, who could switch between humanoid and quadruped forms, and served as his deputy. And carried a shotgun to boot.

* The fan-favorite ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' episode "Origin of the Sorceress" also featured Stridor, Man-At-Arms' hand-built robot mount for He-Man, which Cringer/Battle Cat viewed with no small amount of distaste. It even got a HeroicSacrifice-turned-DisneyDeath fighting a villain called... wait for it... [[ShoutOut Morgoth the]] [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Terrible.]]
* The Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}} special ''Jack Frost'' has the villain, Kubla Krauss, riding a SteamPunk mechanical horse called "Clangstomper."
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' has a few of them in the episode "Showdown at Crooked D". Her uncle has a technologically advanced ranch where the horses are the norm.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' movie ''Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer''. (the one with "[[MeaningfulName Spectra]]", the diamond-planet) features a talking, flying Cyber Horse called On-X (pronounced "Onyx"), for Brite's SpearCounterpart Krys (pronounced "Chris").
* One of Heloise's many inventions on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', which she intended to pull a carriage for her and Jimmy.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Occurs when Jack is fighting off cowboys in a steam-punk based future part of TheWildWest. Instead of legs, the robot steeds hover above the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has one episode where a gang of cowboy-style robbers staged a hold-up on the school bus where the eponymous team gang is waiting to be taken to school. They all ride jet-powered mechanical ponies.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' where fellow anti-hero ComicBook/JonahHex rode on a sleek mechanical horse-like robot after being dragged from his timeline by Mongul to have warriors fight in his "War World", again taking place in a futuristic Wild West setting.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': Although shown only briefly, a few mechanical horses galloped along Dee-dee (who transformed into a horse after begging her brother to turn her into a pony) as part of a testing ground assessing the strengths of her new body.
* In ''Animation/HugoTheHippo'' the sultan's magician conjures up a metal horse and cowboy to lasso some hippos after the horse, obviously, drains the body of water they live in with a vacuum snout.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' features Cyborg riding a mechanical horse while "The Night Begins to Shine" is playing.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In one of the twists in "31st Century Fox", not only are the fox and the dogs robotic, but so are the horses that the fox hunters ride on; the horses even work as helicopters and can validate parking.
* Queen Aleena from ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' was shown on a robot horse in flashbacks. It can be assumed that these horses belong to the Hedgehog Dynasty and were claimed as Robotnik's when he usurped the throne.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'' has Mecha Beasts, which come in all sorts of animal forms, including horses.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Plankton has a one-eyed robot ''sea''horse in the episode "Plankton Retires".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheImpossibles'': Billy the Kidder rides a rocket-powered mechanical horse.

* ''LightNovel/CrestOfTheStars''. There is a robotic horse children guide (along with other robotic animals) in a theme park. The protagonists enlist its help in escaping, resulting an a ChaseScene.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Among ''Gun-Gale Online''[='=]s in-game vehicles are robotic horses. In an amusing [[InvertedTrope inversion]] of AutomatonHorses, they are fully robotic, but notorious for being more temperamental than actual horses, to the point where players who can ride in real life can't get them to listen.
* LightNovel/VampireHunterD has a Cool ''Cyborg'' Horse, as his stories are set in 12,000 A.D. The novels however state that his cyborg horses (he goes through several) are just standard model with nothing special about them in the context of the setting, but somehow he manages to make them incredibly fast and agile just by sitting on their back.
* In ''LightNovel/InfiniteDendrogram'' there are a series of mechanical steeds known as Prism Steeds, created by an ancient civilization. While there are replicas in the modern age, the original series are both rare and valuable enough that a player could be murdered over it.

* "The Quest for Saint Aquin," a 1951 short story by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass" ("robot [[StubbornMule ass]]") which happened to be an atheist. The story takes place in a post-nuclear war United States where roads are in poor repair, hence the need for an automated horse rather than AutomatedAutomobiles (though the robass does have wheels it can deploy if the surface allows).

* "The Quest for Saint Aquin," a 1951 short story by Creator/AnthonyBoucher, had the priest protagonist using an artificially intelligent "robass" ("robot [[StubbornMule ass]]") which happened to be an atheist.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Members of the SupernaturalElite can make highbeasts, which are essentially magic-powered moving statues that look like [[{{Pegasus}} winged horses]]. Some people give them the form of the winged version of another ridable animal, making HorseOfADifferentColor quite common.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Plankton has a one-eyed robot ''sea''horse in the episode "Plankton Retires"

* In a [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Paperinik]] story (NOT from ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''), Gyro Gearloose creates one for the eponymous hero after Scrooge [=McDuck=] confiscates Donald's car.
* "The Horse that Jack Built" was a comic strip in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' back in TheForties about a boy and the robot horse he had built. Made more amazing by the fact that the story was set in [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy the middle ages]].

* The Literature/FightingFantasy book ''Literature/PortalOfEvil'' featured a flying metal horse, which was owned by the Wizard of the Lake. He gives you (the PC) a ride on it.

* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons:

** [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition 3rd Edition]] includes "Stone Horses": {{Living Statue}}s that serve whoever speaks their command word. They have the game stats of heavy horses and the DamageReduction of stone.

* Speaking of the Mechanicus, in 2020 they received a fully playable example of this trope in the form of the Serberys Cavalry, available in two flavours: the [[SwordAndGun Serberys Raiders]] and their [[ArmedLegs clawed]] robot horses; and the [[GunsAkimbo Serberys Sulphurhounds]], who are more partial to [[BreathWeapon fire-breathing]] robot ''greyhounds''.
** ''Warhammer Fantasy'' features [[http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440090a&prodId=prod1530056a the mechanical steed]]. This is sufficiently ridiculous for even the distinctively over-the-top Warhammer world that many Empire players consider it FanonDiscontinuity. Empire army book author [[http://www.warvault.net/interview.php Graham McNeill]] considers it the Empire's attempt to invent the car. Oh and it shoots ''lightning, from its eyes''.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has the [[http://magiccards.info/ch/en/76.html Bronze Horse]], [[http://magiccards.info/5e/en/357.html Clockwork Steed]], [[http://magiccards.info/ex/en/142.html Workhorse]], and [[http://magiccards.info/som/en/142.html Chrome Steed]]. [[http://magiccards.info/mbs/en/8.html Hero of Bladehold]] and [[http://magiccards.info/mbs/en/66.html Hero of Oxid Ridge]] can be seen riding Chrome Steeds as well.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' features mechanical pack mules available through a company specializing in [[MadScientist weird-science products]].
* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', Clan Hell's Horses rather unsurprisingly created an [[HumongousMecha Omnimech]], the Balius, and a [[PowerArmor Battle Armor]] suit, the Buraq, that are both stylized to look like horses.

* The Literature/FightingFantasy book ''Portal of Evil'' featured a flying metal horse, which was owned by the Wizard of the Lake. He gives you (the PC) a ride on it.

* VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}} has an ad for [[http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Giddyup_Buttercup "Giddyup Buttercup"]] ("The Ultimate in Equestrian Robotics!") appear in multiple locations. In the Mothership Zeta add-on you find a room full of them in the alien mothership - [[BewareTheNiceOnes along with a number of dead aliens that have apparently been kicked to death]].

A HorseOfADifferentColor indeed -- and an entirely different nature. Combining the [[CoolHorse coolness of a horse]] with the tireless reliability of a machine, the Mechanical Horse is, at its most basic level, a motorbike with legs. (If it ''doesn't'' have legs, see MyHorseIsAMotorbike.) The Mechanical Horse will usually be a [[RobotBuddy robot]], but some {{Steampunk}} universes feature ''clockwork'' horses.