"Bender is some sort of wonderful mechanical man!"
— Futurama
An index on robots and their tropes.
Because only the cold precision of mechanical beings computes, also includes Artificial Intelligence (and related tropes), Mechanical Lifeforms, and Cyborgs (which are reaching out to Machinity from the Meatside).
Named after the part of the Theme Tune Roll Call in Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Tropes
Artificial Intelligences
- A.I. Getting High
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot
- Alternative Turing Test
- Androids Are People, Too
- Artificial Family Member
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autodoc
- Ban on A.I.
- Benevolent A.I.
- The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
- The Computer Is Your Friend
- Computer Voice
- Contagious A.I.
- Deus Est Machina
- Electronic Speech Impediment
- Emergent Human
- Expositron 9000
- Grew Beyond Their Programming
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
- Interface with a Familiar Face
- Machine Monotone
- Master Computer
- Morality Chip
- Personality Chip
- Robots Are Just Better
- Robots Think Faster
- Rules Are For Humans
- Sapient Tank
- Sentient A.I. Warning Signs
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence
- Three-Laws Compliant
- Turing Test
- Virtual Celebrity
Cyborgs and the like
- Artificial Limbs
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
- Cyber Ninja
- Cyborg
- Cyborg Helmsman
- Living Ship
- Man in the Machine
- Meat Sack Robot
- Mechanical Muscles
- Swiss Army Appendage
- Unwilling Roboticisation
- We Can Rebuild Him
- Wetware CPU
Mechanical Life
- Artificial Human
- Do Androids Dream?
- Mechanical Evolution
- Mechanical Lifeforms
- Organic Technology
- Recursive Creators
- Sapient Ship
- Tinman Typist
Robots!
- Absurdly Dedicated Worker
- Ambiguous Robots
- American Robot
- Androids and Detectives
- Animal Mecha
- Attack Drone
- Become a Real Boy
- Can't Use Stairs
- Clockwork Creature
- Cranial Processing Unit
- Crush. Kill. Destroy!
- Cute Machines
- Cyber Cyclops
- Deceptively Human Robots
- Do-Anything Robot
- Drone Deployer
- Easily Detachable Robot Parts
- Eating Machine
- Fembot
- Forgot He Was a Robot
- Funny Robot
- Good Old Robot
- Hack Your Enemy
- Heart Drive
- Hopping Machine
- In the Future, We Still Have Roombas
- Job-Stealing Robot
- Just a Machine
- Killer Robot
- Ludd Was Right
- Marionette Motion
- Man Versus Machine
- Mechanical Horse
- Mecha-Mooks
- Mechanical Abomination
- Mechanical Monster
- Mobile-Suit Human
- Morality Dial
- Murderous Mannequin
- Names Given to Computers
- Nanomachines
- Noisy Robots
- Perpetual-Motion Monster
- Pick Your Human Half
- Raised by Robots
- Religious Robot
- Remote Body
- Replicant Snatching
- Ridiculously Human Robots
- Robo Cam
- Robo Family
- Robo Romance
- Robo Ship
- Robo Speak
- Robosexual
- Robot
- Robot Antennae
- Robot Athlete
- Robot Buddy
- Robot Clown
- Robot Dog
- Robot Girl
- Robot Hair
- Robot Kid
- Robot Maid
- Robot Master
- Robot Me
- Robot Names
- Robot Religion
- Robot Republic
- Robot War
- Robotic Psychopath
- Robotic Reveal
- Robotic Spouse
- Robotic Torture Device
- Robots Enslaving Robots
- Sexbot
- Single Task Robot
- Skele Bot 9000
- Smart People Build Robots
- Spy Bot
- Starfish Robots
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
- Surveillance Drone
- Talking Lightbulb
- Telescoping Robot
- Thank the Maker
- They Look Like Us Now
- Tin-Can Robot
- TV Head Robot
- Unnecessarily Creepy Robot
- Unwilling Roboticisation
- Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight
