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** More precisely, 790 and his fellow androids incorporate human brain tissue stripped of all identity and personality down to the naked neural circuitry necessary for intelligence, which is then slaved to computer controls.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', servitors are "robots" made from lobotomised criminals or vat grown clones implanted with cybernetics and used for menial labour. This is to get around rules that forbade the creation of true AIs thanks to a RobotWar in the backstory.
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'':
** Pods are assembled from a mix of cybernetics and vat-grown organs and tissues. They were originally built as servitor drones, but with the Fall many people have resorted to [[BrainUploading downloading]] into Pods when they can't afford full biomorphs.
** The Synthetic Mask augmentation places a layer of vat-grown human tissue over a synthmorph, for people who want the benefits of a robotic sleeve without the social stigma.

Everyone knows that a {{Cyborg}} is a living being with technological components of one sort or another grafted onto his/her body. Though sometimes in fiction, it is done in the opposite direction in which a AI controlled machine is grafted with biological tissue (either by another individual or of its own volition). How such a robotic entity is created can be for one of or a combination of a variety of reasons:

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** Some of the Clockwork Robots that appear in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl in the Fireplace]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]" use human parts to make their mechanism work... or simply because some of them [[PinocchioSyndrome want to be humans]].

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The titular Evangelions piloted by Shinji, Asuka, and Rei, and etc. were made from organic bodies cloned from [[spoiler:"Adam" and (in Eva-01's case) "Lilith", the Seeds of Life that respectively serve as the progenitors of [[StarfishAliens the Angels]] and humanity]], with armor, weapons, computer networks and other technological features grafted on to them. The Evangelions were intended to be controlled by their implants, but some of managed to develop their own consciousnesses, with the case of EVA-01 (Shinji Ikari's) being due to [[spoiler:having the soul of his mother Yui Ikari due to her body being merged into it]].

* The ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''/''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' crossover "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4960624/1/An-Angel-With-No-Fate An Angel With No Fate]]" introduces a new form of Terminator in the form of the T-666, which is essentially the "missing link" between the rubber-skinned T-600s and the living tissue grafted over the T-800s. Where the skin for the T-800s was specifically engineered for each individual Terminator model, the skin on the T-666s was formed from dead tissue taken from corpses and treated with preservatives. According to a reprogrammed Terminator, the T-666s were normally treated with various preservatives to keep the skin reasonably fresh, but the scent of those drugs alone often gave away their true nature, which prevented Skynet deploying the T-666s on a large scale even if some of them are kept in certain bases for security.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': [[spoiler:Sari Sumdac]] seems organic on the outside and robotic beneath their skin, though even the mechanical parts are [[MechanicalLifeforms alive]]. Wiki/TFWikiDotNet even calls them "The most adorable little T-800 you ever saw."

* In ''[[Comicbook/{{Micronauts}} Micronauts]],'' [[RobotBuddy Biotron's]] second incarnation, as the humanoid spaceship [[LivingShip Bioship,]] is a machine that incorporates bioengineered tissue in its workings, most notably an enormous living brain.

The other wiki has an article on such a hypothetical machine called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorobotics Biorobotics]].

* ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has [[GravityMaster Nightmare]] and the [[BrainInAJar B.O.X. security robot]]. The former is a [[PowerOfTheVoid black hole spewing]] robot with organic components (including a [[BodyHorror six-eyed melting face with green skin]]) while the later is a armored [[MechaMooks security bot]] that contains an organic brain as part of its AI's neural network. It's their living parts that allow them to be infected by the [[TheAssimilator X Parasites]].

* The ''VideoGame/Fallout'' series, namely ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', featuring Synthetic Humanoids, AKA "Synths", created by The Institute. Early models were lanky, skeletal robots made of metal and plastic, but the latest Third-Generation Synths are indistinguishable from natural-born humans, built from the inside-out with lab-grown bones wrapped in synthetic muscles, skin, and organs. The only "artificial" part of their body is the "Synth Component", a small device hidden somewhere in their body that allows them to be programmed by the Institute.

** Triborg, introduced in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', is a robot, but X-ray attacks and Fatalities done on it, as well as at least one intro dialogue with Cassie Cage reveal that it is built on some unknown person's body. [[spoiler: It's default form implies that it's Cyber Sub-Zero's former body, the one he had before he was killed and resurrected as a Revenant. Its Arcade ending has it do the same thing to the humans at the Special Forces base, and vows to do the same thing to other kombatants as well.]]

* ''Film/RoboCop1987'': [=RoboCop=] was designed to essentially be a robot using a critically injured cop's central nervous system as a WetwareCPU. They left enough of a digestive system to sustain the brain and spine, and grafted his face on for looks, but he's otherwise a robot meant to be subservient to programming. Him partially regaining his previous identity was an unexpected accident.

Regardless of the reasons that a robot has been given biological tissues, it in this regard also has some of the drawbacks in that it will have to gain certain nutrition (and a mechanism for waste disposal) to ensure that its biological components remain healthy, though to what extent this shows up in a work and is addressed in it will vary.

Regardless of the reasons that a robot has been given biological tissues, it in this regard also has some of the drawbacks in that it will have to gain certain nutrition to ensure that its biological components remain healthy, though to what extent this shows up in a work and is addressed in it will vary.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', ComicBook/VictorMancha is an ComicBook/{{Ultron}} construct whose body was designed so that over time, his organs would reconstruct themselves in ways that would enable them to mimic organic material, until his cybernetic nature became impossible to detect.

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