History Main / RobotKid

* In ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' [[spoiler:Alice turns out to be an Android. She was bought by Todd as a ReplacementGoldfish when his wife ran away with their real kid. Interestingly, she manages to fool Kara until she meets another android with the same model later in the story.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', [[spoiler:Shaun, the director of the Institute, built a synth child replica of his past self and wishing the Sole Survivor can give him a second chance to live in Commonwealth, and you can choose to adopt or abandon him in you choose to destroy the Institute. This slightly differs if you choose to side with the Institute instead, as Shaun would insist his parents to live with his synth self as a family.]]

* ''VisualNovel/{{VA11HALLA}}'': Like all DFC-072 models, [[{{Sexbot}} Dorothy]] looks like a prepubescent girl. However, she doesn't act like one, instead having [[OlderThanTheyLook the mental maturity of a 24-year-old human]]. [[FriendToAllChildren She does have a soft spot for children, though]], and plans to find some job working with them after retiring from prostitution.
* In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', [[spoiler:Q (actually Sean) is an android built to look like a boy wearing a helmet. He's modeled after a real child who died after befriending the BigBad in the hospital.]]

* ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'': The Nuclear Family has three android children [[ReplacementGoldfish based on Dr. Shanner's own dead children]]: named Biff, Sis and Brat.
* A CreepyChild variant shows up in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', where the Joker's bombs are sentient robot brats.

* Crybaby from ''ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks'' is a boy robot in a bear suit pulled straight out of the cover art for Music/FallOutBoy's ''Folie a Deux''. They also don't call him "Crybaby" for nothing.
* Rusty of ''ComicBook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''.
* Elsie Dee, created by Donald Pierce of the Hellfire Club to take out ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. However, an assistant of Pierce's made her far more intelligent and sentient than Pierce intended, and she managed to get control of her systems and not blow up.

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->'''Senbei:''' That is because you are a robot, you don't change.
->'''Arale:''' I wanna wanna wanna grow big!

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* In ''VideoGame/Robot64'', you play as a little robot boy named Beebo, who is on a quest to [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs destroy the sun with ice cream]].

%%* Pino in ''Anime/ErgoProxy''.

%%* The title character of Anime/CybotRobotchi.
* Teto from ''Anime/HeatGuyJ''. He is designed as a small child, programmed to obey any command without question, and ask if whatever he's done is to the human commander's satisfaction. He was built illegally by an old man who says he was lonely, but then revealed that he is sadistic and cruel; basically, he built Teto as his personal punching bag. Teto is "kidnapped" by Clair, who wants to use him to lure and destroy J. His programming unnerves Clair, because of his training by his abusive father.

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

* ComicBook/TheBeano had one, back in the late 30s - early 40s, named Tin Can Tommy, who in later strips gained a robot brother.

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

%%* Daryl from ''Film/{{DARYL}}''.

* Vicki from ''Series/SmallWonder'' is a robot girl built by an engineer, who proceeds to pass her off as his daughter.
* A villainous example occurs in ''Series/TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan'', where Black Magma builds a robot version of a man's dead daughter. [[spoiler:The robot eventually disobeys the villains because they'd programmed it to view the man as its father.]] Later, they do it again, this time replacing a living boy with a robot duplicate.

%%* Botley in ''VideoGame/JumpStart3rdGrade''.
* Roll from ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' and Rock/Mega Man himself (who was originally a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute replacement]] made for an ''Anime/AstroBoy'' game [[WhatCouldHaveBeen that never happened]]). There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with AloofBigBrother.
* MOMO from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'', though she's more of an ArtificialHuman than a robot.

* In ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'' [[spoiler:Alice turns out to be an Android. She was bought by Todd as a ReplacementGoldfish when his wife ran away with their real kid. Interestingly, she manages to fool Kara until she meets another android with the same model later in the story.]]

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

* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot''. Rusty was not built as a family robot, though, unless all family robots fire energy beams from their hands and can fly around. Rusty, originally meant to replace the outdated Big Guy (who is actually a HumongousMecha with a pilot inside, despite what the public believes). However, Rusty's childish demeanor and inexperience relegate him to the post of a sidekick, while the Big Guy still takes care of the big problems. Rusty even has a mother in his inventor, Dr. Slate.
* Rock and Roll in ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' are teenagers, in contrast to their younger game versions.
* Bobert in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', a robot from the Bobert Store who attends Elmore Junior High along with all the human-like objects and [[FunnyAnimal animals]]. Why he goes to school [[MundaneFantastic is not explained or questioned.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Robotnik Junior from his namesake episode was created by Dr. Robotnik to be his son and help him get rid of Sonic. However, as a result of treating Junior better than his previous creations, Scratch and Grounder, the latter two try to get rid of Junior, resulting in Sonic having to save Junior, which itself leads to Junior [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turning against Robotnik]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': B.O.Y.D., created by tech billionaire Mark Beaks to get himself into a rich kid's birthday party. [[spoiler:By the end of the episode, he's reprogrammed to be said rich kid's adoptive brother.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'' [[AdaptationalSpeciesChange opts to change]] [[WesternAnimation/TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff and Reddy]] into this, for no apparent reason. In one episode, they fight each other and accidentally wreck themselves; inside Ruff's back is a computer that gives access to a virtual reality game run by [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones the Great Gazoo]], who eggs on Augie and Yakky to keep playing the game, not telling them they're destroying Jellystone in the process.

* ''Film/SpyKids1'': The villain's plan centers around an army of robots who look like the children of important people (and the two main characters). [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, after reprogramming them to think wrong is right, they go around the world helping people in need, while the robot duplicates of the main characters stay with [[HeelFaceTurn Floop]] and become part of his show]].

* In ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', [[spoiler: Q (actually Sean) is an android built to look like a boy wearing a helmet. He's modeled after a real child who died after befriending the BigBad in the hospital.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK64zsZNNs CB2]].
* [[http://www.robotcub.org/ Robot Cub]], a robot 3-year-old designed to study cognition.

* Wheelie, the young Autobot they find fending for himself with a slingshot on Quintessa in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie''. In subsequent episodes of the cartoon he would be paired with Daniel to make a Cute Kid and Robot pair.

* Pino in ''Anime/ErgoProxy''.

* The title character of Anime/CybotRobotchi.

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

* ''Film/SpyKids1'': The villain's plan centers around an army of robots who look like the children of important people (and the two main characters). [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, after reprogramming them to think wrong is right, they go around the world helping people in need, while the robot duplicates of the main characters stay with [[HeelFaceTurn Floop]] and become part of his show]].
* ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'': Audio-Animatronic robots such as [[spoiler:Athena]] show up in adult and kid ages.