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* The 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' was one of these.
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* The Within the 2003 ''Anime/AstroBoy'' series, Astro was one of these.built with an AdaptiveAbility that would enable him to "evolve" into the world's most powerful robot.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun': In ''The Urth of the New Sun'', the mechanical humanoid Sidero is revealed to be a robot evolved out of spacesuits with built-in artificial intelligence.
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* ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun': ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'': In ''The Urth of the New Sun'', the mechanical humanoid Sidero is revealed to be a robot evolved out of spacesuits with built-in artificial intelligence.
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' has many, many examples, including a planet with a machine ecology known as [[ShoutOut Stanislaw.]]
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* ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' ''Website/OrionsArm'' has many, many examples, including a planet with a machine ecology known as [[ShoutOut Stanislaw.]]
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* ''Animation/TheCrabs'', based on Anatoly Dneprov's short story "Crabs on the Island", features a MadScientist building an army of self-replicating crab robots and setting them against one another in the hopes of evolving an ultimate weapon.
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* "Crabs on the Island" is a 1958 short story by Anatoly Dneprov about a scientist who decides to test Darwin's theory of evolution with an army of self-replicating, gradually-evolving mechanical crabs, in the hopes of weaponizing them. As can be expected for [[ScienceIsBad this type of story]], [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters it ends badly]].
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-->-- ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': This is often invoked by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} to justify new powers and appearance whenever he returns. In his origin story, Ultron went through the stages "Da-Da / Daddy / Dad / Father Dear" in ''about fifteen seconds''.
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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': This is often invoked by ComicBook/{{Ultron}} Ultron to justify new powers and appearance whenever he returns. In his origin story, Ultron went through the stages "Da-Da / Daddy / Dad / Father "Da-Da/Daddy/Dad/Father Dear" in ''about fifteen seconds''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome's master plan is to build and evolve a robot by pitting it against gradually tougher Supers; eventually building a machine strong enough to take out his nemesis Mr. Incredible and wiping out the remaining Supers in the process. But [[spoiler: [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters the machine evolves even more and is soon out of Syndrome's control]].]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Syndrome's master plan is to build and evolve a robot by pitting it against gradually tougher Supers; eventually building a machine strong enough to take out his nemesis Mr. Incredible and wiping out the remaining Supers in the process. But [[spoiler: [[spoiler:However, [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters the machine evolves even more and is soon out of Syndrome's control]].]]
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* In Creator/StephenBaxter's ''Literature/{{Evolution}}'' self-replicating robots evolve just like organic beings: software errors are possible in every new assembly, and those machines that benefit from theirs are more likely to reproduce at a higher rate. Mankind goes extinct without realizing that its automated Mars rovers will spawn a Galaxy-spanning civilization.
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** According to the DVDCommentary of ''Mask of Light'', the ''BIONICLE'' animals (aka Rahi) were designed with differing levels of organic components, as franchise co-creator Bob Thompson suggested that the fauna was in the process of evolving from partially organic cyborgs to fully {{mechanical lifeform}}s. As such, Graalok the Ash Bear was shown to be completely robotic in the film, while other creatures had hints of organic tissues. This idea was swiftly abandoned after the movie, with later story explaining that Rahi didn't evolve naturally, they were created and purposefully tweaked and improved by the Makuta.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome's master plan is to build and evolve a robot by pitting it against gradually tougher Supers; eventually building a machine strong enough to take out his nemesis Mr. Incredible and wiping out the remaining Supers in the process. But [[spoiler: the machine evolves even more and is soon out of Syndrome's control.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Syndrome's master plan is to build and evolve a robot by pitting it against gradually tougher Supers; eventually building a machine strong enough to take out his nemesis Mr. Incredible and wiping out the remaining Supers in the process. But [[spoiler: [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters the machine evolves even more and is soon out of Syndrome's control.control]].]]
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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Agatha tends to compulsively construct little Clanks termed "[[FanNickname dingbots]]". These dingbots can then go on to construct more dingbots, but dingbots are only so bright, so each successive generation gets less and less advanced, and less bright, and by the third or fourth generation the dingbots produced are nonfunctional.
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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Agatha tends to compulsively construct little Clanks termed "[[FanNickname dingbots]]".Clanks. These dingbots can then go on to construct more dingbots, but dingbots are only so bright, so each successive generation gets less and less advanced, and less bright, and by the third or fourth generation the dingbots produced are nonfunctional.
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* ''Comicbook/TheTransformers'': In the original series series, the Transformers themselves were once described as evolving from "naturally-occurring gears, levers and pulleys", a theory later dubbed "atechnogenesis". This was later {{Retcon}}ned into the Transformers having actually been created by a deity figure; the levers and pulleys thing turned out to be a theory they themselves had developed about their origins after having forgotten their true origin.
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* ''Comicbook/TheTransformers'': ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'': In the original series series, the Transformers themselves were once described as evolving from "naturally-occurring gears, levers and pulleys", a theory later dubbed "atechnogenesis". This was later {{Retcon}}ned into the Transformers having actually been created by a deity figure; the levers and pulleys thing turned out to be a theory they themselves had developed about their origins after having forgotten their true origin.
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** In the IDW G1 continuity, believers in this theory are called Evolutionary Engineerists.
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** In the IDW G1 continuity, ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'', believers in this theory are called Evolutionary Engineerists.
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* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'': When Kryten is hit by the E-Accelerator in "Evolution", he is shown to devolve into a sentient vacuum cleaner.
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* ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'': ''Magazine/RedDwarf Smegazine'': When Kryten is hit by the E-Accelerator in "Evolution", he is shown to devolve into a sentient vacuum cleaner.
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No one ever seems to compare the advancement of machines to the theory of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckian evolution]], which says that traits acquired by an organism over its life will be passed on to the child. Though [[ScienceMarchesOn wrong when talking about organic evolution]], this makes perfect sense for mechanical evolution. If an upgrade to an existing model of robot is developed it can be incorporated as standard into future robots of that model when they are created. The Lamarck comparison is probably taken out because the writers [[ViewersAreMorons assume the viewers don't know who Lamarck is.]]
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No one ever seems to compare the advancement of machines to the theory of [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckian evolution]], which says that traits acquired by an organism over its life will be passed on to the child. Though [[ScienceMarchesOn wrong when talking about organic evolution]], this makes perfect sense for mechanical evolution. If an upgrade to an existing model of robot is developed it can be incorporated as standard into future robots of that model when they are created. The Lamarck comparison is probably taken out because the writers [[ViewersAreMorons assume the viewers don't know who Lamarck is.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' seems to have this happen to the the Gray Tempest across different outcomes of the L-Cluster scenario. In the "Gray Tempest" they are a mindless GrayGoo swarm which destroyed their creators and then consumed everything living in the L-Cluster. The "Desananu Consonance" appears to occur later in the timeline, with the Tempest having gained sapience and replicating the destroyed planets and civilization of their creators to interact with other races. "Gray" is the endpoint of their evolution as, bored after millennia of experience, the collective swarm abandoned most of it mass and compressed its entire mind into a single malleable form.
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* ''Literature/{{Evolution}}'': A self-replicating rover left stranded on Mars after the collapse of human civilization begins to endlessly reproduce itself according to its last orders, creating an exponentially replicating swarm of von Neumann machines. Small errors occasionally crop up in their replications as they do in biological evolution, leading to their designs gradually shifting and diverging over time, and the machines' communication with each other allows them to mix, match and incorporate them as needed, letting them learn and adapt whenever they encounter a new condition and eventually diversify into a dizzying array of specialized forms.
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* Creator/GregoryBenford's ''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which evolved from self-replicating von neumann machines, after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
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* Creator/GregoryBenford's ''Galactic Center'' novels have "mechs" which ''Literature/GalacticCenter'': "Mechs" evolved from self-replicating von neumann machines, machines after they were abandoned when their biological creators destroyed themselves.
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* How the Glitch came to be in the upcoming game, ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''. There were originally several other robotic races similar to that built by the same empire on different worlds to simulate sociological and technological progression but they always wound up destroying themselves each time they advanced to a certain point. The exception comes from one planet where, well, [[{{MeaningfulName}} a glitch]] caused them to be [[{{MedievalStasis}} stuck in the medieval times]] which [[{{LuddWasRight}} allowed them to survive for so long]].
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* How the Glitch came to be in the upcoming game, ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}''. There were originally several other robotic races similar to that built by the same empire on different worlds to simulate sociological and technological progression but they always wound up destroying themselves each time they advanced to a certain point. The exception comes from one planet where, well, [[{{MeaningfulName}} a glitch]] caused them to be [[{{MedievalStasis}} stuck in the medieval times]] which [[{{LuddWasRight}} allowed them to survive for so long]].
