History Main / RoboRomance

* One episode of Anime/SpaceDandy is about QT having a romantic relationship with a sentient female coffee maker machine, though ultimately she [[spoiler: chooses another robot over QT]].
* In Anime/YuGiOhZexal, Orbital 7, a robot built by Kite to help him retrieve Number cards, ends up falling in love with Lillybot, a litterbot Yuma had previously taken in, after a CrashIntoHello. A series of misunderstandings leads Orbital 7 to believe Yuma is abusing Lillybot, leading to him challenging Yuma to a duel to save his love. By the end of the episode, things get cleared up and him and Lillybot are finally formally introduced. The two are later shown in the epilogue of the show with a bunch of [[BabiesEverAfter robot baby hybrids]], implying they are now an OfficialCouple.

* In ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'': "Whatever Happened to ... Star Hawkins?", Star's robot secretary Ilda marries Automan, Robot for Hire, from ''Tales of the Unexpected''.
* Cybertronian society in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has Conjunx Endura, which is basically a marriage between two bots. Chromedome and Rewind are one such couple. Chromedome, in fact was notable for having had a total of four partners when most bots went their entire lives without having one. [[spoiler: This was because when each of his previous partners died, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia he used mnemosurgery on himself to erase his memories of them]].]]

* Creator/{{Nelvana}} made a robotic version of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' called ''WesternAnimation/Romie0AndJulie8'' which had this as its theme. The two androids are from different manufacturers, and androids in general aren't supposed to feel love.

* The little floating robots in ''Film/BatteriesNotIncluded'' can not only fall in love with each other, they can even procreate.
* The Creator/SpikeJonze short film ''Film/{{Im Here|2010}}'' revolves around a romance between two robots... one which [[{{Deconstruction}} takes a turn for the self-destructive]] when it turns out the female robot is an adrenaline junky who keeps getting damaged by her stunts, forcing her lover to [[BodyHorror remove his own body parts as replacements]], since they’re poor and can’t afford new parts.
* ''Film/BicentennialMan'': When Andrew first sees Galatea it appears as though he has found the {{Fembot}} of his dreams, only for him to quickly realize she is just a [[PersonalityChip shallow personality program]] on a normal robot. In fact, within five minutes or so of having met her, he considers her too ''[[SubvertedTrope annoying]]'' to tolerate.
--> '''Andrew:''' ''(to Rupert)'' Shut her off, or I ''will''.

* In the short story "Love and Sex Among the Invertebrates" by Creator/PatMurphy, humanity has wiped itself out in nuclear war. A roboticist dying of radiation poisoning creates robot dinosaurs to pass the time while musing on her sexuality, and gives them non-functional sex organs as a joke. As she's breathing her last, she's shocked to realize they have somehow successfully procreated and realizes that they will become humanity's successors to Earth.

* In one episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Barney produces and stars in a [[StylisticSuck deliberately terrible]] one man show, which includes a skit where a robot falls in love with a toaster.
* An episode of the ''Series/LogansRun'' TV series had an android therapist (she was the last remaining staff at a sleep therapy center) and Rem (who was essentially an android butler and maintenance man) start an odd flirtation. Neither of them understood humans very well, so they thought the idea of a robo romance was odd, but intriguing.
* ''Series/GetSmart''. In "Leadside", the VillainOfTheWeek sabotages the CONTROL MasterComputer. As the computer stutters out its LastWords, 99 asks if there's anyone the computer wants to be notified of its passing. The answer is: the CONTROL cigarette vending machine!

* In ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'', Claptrap of ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' fame has a crush on ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'s'' SelfDemonstrating/{{GLaDOS}}. The crush is extremely one-sided, with every single one of Clap's advances being answered with even more apathy than usual from her. However, she does say his diesel fuel-scented cologne drives her insane -- [[AxCrazy Lizzie Borden]] [[ExactWords insane]].
-->'''Claptrap''': I might as well say it now. I've always loved you, baby.\\
'''[=GLaDOS=]''': Were I outfitted with a dry-heave subroutine, I'd activate it now.

* One episode of a later ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Flintstones]]'' series has Fred living an idyllic, lazy life because he owns a robot that goes to work in his place. This ends when Barney buys a robot of his own, which turns out to be female, and brings it to Fred's house. Cue both robots immediately escaping to pursue their romance.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Robot Rabbit" has Bugs disguise himself as a female robot in order to lure Elmer's pest-control robot into a pile driver.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Phantom 2040}}'' pairs up Heisenberg and Pavlova, the first two robots to gain self-awareness.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' has Handy build Clockwork Smurfette to be Clockwork Smurf's companion. She initially falls for her creator instead, but after helping Clockwork Smurf defeat Gargamel, her affections turn towards Clockwork Smurf for the rest of the series.
* The Third season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' introduces P.I.X.A.L. ([[AIcronym short for Primary Interactive External Assistant Lifeform]]) as a love interest for [[AnIcePerson Zane]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Love at First Byte" has Norm fall in love with a [[FemBot beautiful female robot]] named Chloe. He spends the rest of the episode trying to impress her. Dr. Doofenshmirtz supports him until it is revealed that Chloe was created by [[TheRival Rodney]].

* The Creator/SpikeJonze short film ''Film/ImHere'' revolves around a romance between two robots... one which [[{{Deconstruction}} takes a turn for the self-destructive]] when it turns out the female robot is an adrenaline junky who keeps getting damaged by her stunts, forcing her lover to [[BodyHorror remove his own body parts as replacements]], since they’re poor and can’t afford new parts.

* The Creator/SpikeJonze short film ''I’m Here'' revolves around a romance between two robots... one which [[{{Deconstruction}} takes a turn for the self-destructive]] when it turns out the female robot is an adrenaline junky who keeps getting damaged by her stunts, forcing her lover to [[BodyHorror remove his own body parts as replacements]], since they’re poor and can’t afford new parts.

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', the robot Lopez and the artificially intelligent tank Shelia fall in LoveAtFirstSight.

* Later in the run of Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}'' comic book, Microtron fell in love with a female robot named Nanotron. The two automatons remained a couple until they eventually sacrificed themselves to revive the conscious of Arcturus Rann's robotic companion Biotron.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has the holographic Doctor fall in love with the recovering Borg Seven of Nine.

'''[=GLaDOS=]''': [[AC:Were I outfitted with a dry-heave subroutine, I'd activate it now.]]

* This is not uncommon in the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' francise in general.

** All of the above is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the fact that robots ''can'' reproduce sexually in order to meet a demand too large for factories to supply on their own. It's worth noting that the definition of "robots" extends to ''all'' technology in the 31st century, which comes equipped with {{AI}} by default; in "The Bots and the Bees" Bender fathers a child by a vending machine.

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-->''(to a Golden Crushbot)'' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "You could 'crush']] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar me anytime!"]]

** Eventually, [[spoiler:retired warbot Bubbles gets into an increasingly intensely romantic relationship with the human Faye]].

-->''"I remember our software was compatible''
-->''I think I felt my circuit board ignite''
-->''You held my hand in your metallic grip''
-->''We may be machines, but I'm in love tonight"''

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' has a minor side plot involving a robot romance between background characters Seven and Jeremy.

* Florence and Winston in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' are an example from a certain point of view. While Florence is an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted wolf]] rather than a mechanical robot she is legally an artificial intelligence, and her brain design is based on Dr Bowman's architecture, which was also used for the robot population of Jean.

-->''(to a Golden Crushbot)'' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "You could 'crush' me anytime!"]]