History Main / TinCanRobot

* [[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/File:Character.samrobot.jpg Sam the Robot]] from ''SesameStreet''.

* The Robobrains from ''{{Fallout}}'' fit most of the bill, except for having tank treads instead of legs.

* While he's more box-like than can, Pollo from ''AtopTheFourthWall'' definitely invokes this trope.

* ''StarTrekVoyager''. Satan's Robot, the [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EmqAnxv_WXnRcM:http://www.ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/images/VOY/Captain%20Proton4.jpg&t=1 robot that appears in the "Captain Proton" holodeck sequences]], which was inspired by the Republic Robot.

* While he's more box-like than can, [[AtopTheFourthWall Pollo]] definitely invokes this trope.

* Bender from ''{{Futurama}}'' is a perfect caricature of a 1950s-style movie-robot, with a tin-can body, flexi-hose arms and legs, a typical robot head, and eyes clearly lifted from Crow T. Robot. Some of the side characters are Tin Can Robots as well.

* There are several robots in the ''LooneyTunes / MerrieMelodies'' series like this — for instance, in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXHV_hPUaA Robot Rabbit]]" and "[[http://www.trilulilu.ro/cartoonlair/f1f8bee75aef19 Lighter Than Hare]]". (In the latter, Bugs even uses the robot as a trash can.)

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* {{Spiderman}} once had to deal with the robot XP-2000 who was really obsolete compared to androids like Vision and Ultron.
** Keep in mind that Ultron was designed in the 40's, and Vision was built ''by Ultron''. This says a lot about XP-2000 being ''designed obsolete''.
* "Magnus Robot Fighter: 4000 AD" by Golden Key Comics had a future lousy with robot servants, almost all of them of the tin-can-humanoid variety, generally with flexi-tube or armored-cable limbs.

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* According to ThatOtherWiki Hephestus was said to have made metalic automotons making this OlderThanDirt

* The Robobrains from ''{{Fallout}}'' fit most of the bill, except for having tank treads instead of legs.
* from ''{{Fallout 3}}''

* [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090107121151/fallout/images/5/5b/Protectron.png Protectrons]] from ''{{Fallout 3}}''

* In an episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer builds one of these for Bart to enter in a ''RobotWars''-style TV show. Justified in that Homer was secretly working it from inside, having realised he had not the faintest idea how to actually build a robot.

* Scrubots in ''{{Paranoia}}''.

The opposite of RidiculouslyHumanRobot and RobotGirl — this is a robot designed with function over form in mind. They're in technically humanoid form, but generally look like a trashcan or boiler on legs, sometimes ([[{{Cephalothorax}} but not always]]) with a head of a greater or lesser similarity to a human's. They're usually not painted and it's often possible to easily see screw heads holding them together. Bonus points if the robot's arms are made of flexi-tube with pincers at the end.

** Parodied with the Replidroids later in the series — they look like a standard TinCanRobot, but everyone in the ''BattlestarGalactica'' spoof sketch behaves as if they're RidiculouslyHumanRobots.

* While he's more box-like then can, [[AtopTheFourthWall Pollo]] definitely invokes this trope.

* Bender from ''{{Futurama}}'' is a perfect caricature of a 1950s style movie-robot, with a tin-can body, flexi-hose arms and legs, a typical robot head, and eyes clearly lifted from Crow T. Robot. Some of the side characters are Tin Can Robots as well.
* There are several robots in the ''LooneyTunes / MerrieMelodies'' series like this — for instance, in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXHV_hPUaA Robot Rabbit]]" and "[[http://www.trilulilu.ro/cartoonlair/f1f8bee75aef19 Lighter Than Hare]]." (In the latter, Bugs even uses the robot as a trash can.)

* The [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] ''[[FleischerSuperman Superman]]'' series featured "The Mechanical Monsters," used by the inventor for a series of robberies.
* Homer builds one of these for Bart to enter in a RobotWars-style TV show. Justified in that Homer was secretly working it from inside, having realised he had not the faintest idea how to actually build a robot.

* Ork MiniMecha in ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are aptly known as Killa Kans. Their HumungousMecha are built to a similar design.

* [[HomestarRunner The CheatBot]] is not a real robot, but would be a perfect example if he were.

* ''StarTrekVoyager''. The [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EmqAnxv_WXnRcM:http://www.ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/images/VOY/Captain%20Proton4.jpg&t=1 robot that appears in the "Captain Proton" holodeck sequences]], which was inspired by the Republic Robot.

* Cronk and Zephyr, elderly Warbots who first appear in ''{{Ratchet and Clank}} Future: Tools of Destruction"

* While he's more box-like then can, [[AtopThe4thWall Pollo]] definitely invokes this trope.

* ''StarTrekVoyager''. The [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:EmqAnxv_WXnRcM:http://www.ottens.co.uk/forgottentrek/images/VOY/Captain Proton 4.jpg&t=1 robot that appears in the "Captain Proton" holodeck sequences]], which was inspired by the Republic Robot.

* The robot in ''SantaClausConquersTheMartians''