This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared … See more

• Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio series (1978–1980)
• Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch BBC radio series … See more

Pre-1950
• The Mechanical Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in A Clever Dummy, a Sennett silent short dating from 1917 when the term "robot" did not yet … See more

Comic books/graphic novels
American
• The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android in Fantastic Four and … See more

19th century and earlier
• The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
• From 600 BC onward, legends of talking bronze and clay See more

• "Max Mainspring, the Mechanical Man", a former grandfather clock brought to life in a 1950 children's record by Ray Bolger.
• "Automatic Lover", robot featured in a 1978 disco track and music video by Dee D. Jackson, covered later that year by Sylvia See more

1960s and earlier
• In The Thin Man (1957–1959):
• In The Twilight Zone (1961–1962):
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