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790   From the TV series LEXX
790 is a part of the LEXX crew. He lost his body to a Cluster Lizard and through a cruel twist of fate must love throughout eternity the beautiful Zev, for whom he composes sickly sweet love poetry.

8-D8^tm   see Star Wars droids

ABC Warriors  From the UK comic. 2000 AD.[1978]
The Atomic Bacterial Chemical Warriors first appeared in the comic Starlord 1978, under the title Ro-Busters.  The Ro-Buster Robots are a motley crew, used as a hit squad to handle world threatening events.  Early ABC War 'droids' were programmed to killed anything and everything. Unacceptable civilian losses drove the development of the MK3. The MK3 were programmed to kill the enemy but were emotionally crippled...........

ABC robots destined to fight a never ending war:
Hammerstein. An old war droid and the troubled leader of the pack.
Joe Pineapples. A cool killer. 'The ultimate assassin'.
Mongrol. The metal Ape created by Lara.
Deadlock. A knights Martial and possessor of mystical powers who became an agent of Khaos. .
Blackblood. Ex-General of the Straw Dogs (enemy robots). It is rumored that Blackblood drank the oil of dead ABC Warriors.
Mek-Quake. The psychotic, dumb and cowardly kill-dozer.
Steelhorn. An handsome, indestructible robot, melted down into 'the Mess' but resurrected by medusa.
Ro-Jaws. alias FRED-2L 'the  lord of rebellion'. An ex-sewer robot who sufferers from faulty language and obedience circuits  
Great Link and thanks to http://www.dreamnation.fsnet.co.uk/abc.html

Aibo   

Archie   From the 'LION' a UK comic (early 1960s)
Ted Richie, Ken Dale and their giant mechanical marvel, robot Archie. Archie's every movement was controlled by an ingenious transmitter slung from Ted's neck. Serialised in the LION comic produced every Monday by Fleetway Publications. "As a young lad I always spent part of my pocket money on this comic."

Ash  From the film Alien (also see Bishop)

ASP-7 Droid^tm see Star Wars droids
This one worked in the spaceport classified as an Industrial automation.

Azimo  Derived from the Honda P2  

B-9 Robot from the classic USA TV series and Film 'Lost in Space' 1968 Irwin Allen Productions.
A firm pal of Will Robinson and protector to the space faring Robinsons. The robot never had a name in the TV series. In the first film the robot was referred to as B-9. "Danger will Robinson!"

The 1997/98 re-make of the film used a 'battle bot' that initially was programmed to sabotage the mission. After inflicting much damage on the spaceship, the robot was repaired by Will and became his eternal friend. Trendmaster make several model versions.

Link: Lost in Space

Batteries not included - 1987 Steven Spielberg
Two cute little saucer shaped mechanical creatures that take up residence in a run down area of a large city and immediately start stealing junk. For every thing they take, they fix something. The downtrodden tenants are draw together in support of the little aliens, who eventually help the humans sort themselves and the property developer out.

Note: Batteries not included is also a Collectable Card Game by Marvel ReCharge

Bender Unit 22     A lovable foul mouthed Robot from the 20th Century Fox TV series 'Futurama' see also 'Futurama Robots' 
Bender (actual name Bender  Bending Rodriguez) lives in 3000AD with his best friend Fry. Bender is a 4 year old Mexican steel girder bending robot. He's an "'in your face" guy who doesn't care who he offends; he only looks out for number one. Bender is made of Titanium and 40% zinc. He drinks alcohol because apart from getting him drunk, it will keep his fuel cells charged. Without alcohol, he can become sober and uncontrollable. His favorite thing to do apart from smoking cigars and drinking is stealing; he steals because he can, and he's damn good at it.
For far more detail on all things Bender, visit Kirsty's site http://www.geocities.com/futuramafox/bender.html  
another is http://www.geocities.com/julietlara/index2.html

Bicentennial Man           1999 film directed by Chris Columbus

A happy/sad story of an android called Andrew (played by Robin Williams) who is the only sentient robot on the planet (I assume due to a freak accident). The story unfolds over 200 years, from the time Andrew is purchased by a family, through a period of  understanding of what it is to be human (including falling in love), to installing synthetic human parts and wanting  human rights including the right to die.
[A familiar story i.e. Tin Man - Wizard of Oz, Pinochio, Data in Star Trek etc].

Galatea is a female Android (Gynoid perhaps) also seen throughout the film, but as a sort of dumb blond.

The Storyline was taken from a novel titled 'The Positronic Man' co-written by Asimov and  Robert Silverberg - originally written as a short story by Isaac Asimov titled the 'Bicentennial Man'.

Bishop From the film Aliens (also see Ash)

Black Hole Robots  - Copyright Walt Disney - film 1979
Hans Reinhardt aboard the U.S.S. Cygnus has discovered limitless power and is preparing to enter a local black hole with his nasty red robot buddy Maximillian; this after enslaving the rest of the crew by turning them into cyborgs under his control. The deep space ship 'Palomino' crash lands on the Cygnus. Where the crew of the Palomino discover the dark goings on, and are hunted by Maximillian and his hoard of sinister black robots. The Palomino crew are helped free by V.I.N.CENT and his new found friend B.O.B a similar but much abused 'old timer' robot. B.O.B makes a heroic final sacrifice and the U.S.S Cygnus falls into the black Hole......weird images then ensue. See also V.I.N.CENT

Blade Runner the film
Loosely based on the book 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' by Philip K Dick
Powerful human genetic constructs illegal on earth 2019 AD, arrive in Los Angeles. A blade runner (genetic crime fighter) is brought out of retirement to hunt and destroy them. Characters: Pris, Roy Batty, Zhora, Rachael, Leon, Little Kyser and Tyrell's owl, are the artificial beings. They are not robots or androids, but I just had to include blade runner, for the book title if nothing else. link:

B.O.B   see Black Hole Robots

Boilerplate     A Victorian Robot circa 1893
Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed during the 1880s, and
unveiled at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
Thanks to Paul Guinan. Check out his great site.    Link:  http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate

Bomb 20  from the cult sci-fi film Dark Star © 1974 Image Films made by  John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon

The film is about a space ship and crew whose mission is to locate habitable planetary systems and, if necessary, make them safe by destroying any rogue unstable planets using one of the ship's 20 intelligent "thermo-stellar" bombs. The crazed crew  have been in space for three years (there relative time) and with the captain cryogenically frozen (but still available for a chat!), the ship is in desperate need of repair, and with only one bomb left, the mission is nearing its end.
The ships computer 'Mother' decides to malfunction and falsely orders bomb 20 to prepare for detonation; the order is countermanded by acting captain Doolittle and the bomb returns to the bomb bay. However, on the third  false order from 'Mother', bomb 20 decides it's not going to return to the bomb bay this time but instead wishes to fulfill its destiny and explode!  The crew, somehow, need to convince bomb 20 to disarm itself............
The moral of this story is "don't give a bomb AI"

Borg or The Borg - Star Trek 2nd Generation, Voyager and the film 'First Encounter'
Biomechanical or cybernetic beings.  Cyborgs are biological entities, usually humanoid in appearance that have been assimilated into the Borg collective (a sort of neural net I suppose). Not Robots or Androids but included for completeness.

Box  - from the film 'Logan's Run' 1976
In a perfect world where no-one is allowed to live past the age of 30, Logan (played by Michael York) and a beautiful girl called Jessica (played by Jenny Agutter), do a runner. During their escapade they meet Box, a robot food processor that lives in an icy cave; His supply of food has dried up long ago, so for job satisfaction, Box prepares and freezes runners (does this mean that the inhabitants of the domed city are eating human flesh? The film does not elaborate, I'm afraid). Box voice

C-3PO  Star Wars Series of films by George Lucas

See Star Wars Droids page

Cadbury's Smash Martians     1974 Created by BMP DDB Advertising agency
Funny little 'Martians' that laughed at us humans for eating real potatoes! They starred in the Cadbury's Smash (powdered mashed potatoes) advertisement created by BMP UK advertising agency.
Not  referred to as robots, but as far as I'm concerned they are robotic little guys (perhaps they where Martian robots ). 
Chris Stocker, a graphic designer in Bath recently recreated the little fella's in 3D (as the originals are beginning to fall apart!)

Chris kindly sent me some pictures - here's one   
thanks to Chris and lots of other people for sending pictures.
http://www.chris-stocker.co.uk/default.asp?Segment=Quick&Page=5
"On your last trip did you discover what the earth people eat"

Cog     A.I experimental robot created at the MIT (Massachusetts' Institute of Technology) USA in 1994.
Cog is the brainchild of Rodney Brookes and was formed from a project to build an Artificial intelligence robot. Cog was coined from the word 'cognition' meaning 'acquiring of knowledge. From cognitum - to understand, learn'.
Cog, a test bed for machine interaction with the real world, weighs in at 1 tonne, is nearly 2 metres tall and is in a constant state of 'evolution'..

Link: MIT/cog

Crash test dummies   (Not the band!)
A group of vinyl and rubber, sensor rich mannequins that have selfishly saved thousands of lives by being 'accident-prone'. Crash dummies provide vital crash impact information that enable designers to produce  safer cars, planes, prams, etc. for us humans.
There are specialist versions like 'SID', used for Side-Impact testing and even Virtual dummies that only exist inside a computer (my wife thinks I'm one!).
There are rumors that the 'Aliens' found at Roswell were crash test dummies.
Links: http://www.ftss.com/index.htm   http://www.astc.net/Astc1-2.html

Cybermen     Created for the BBC 'Doctor Who' UK TV series
Cybermen are biomechanical men from Mondas, a planet that originally existed in our solar system a long long time ago.... Initially humanoid, the people of Mondas replaced various body parts with robotic implants thus losing their humanity. Cybermen reproduce by converting other humanoids into faithful copies of themselves. (Sounds familiar? It is - see the 'Borg' from StarTrek). The Cybermen appeared alongside the first Dr Who in 'The Tenth Planet' and reappeared in several further Dr Who adventures e.g. 'Tomb of the Cybermen' (1967), 'Attack of the Cybermen', 'Revenge of the Cybermen' and finally 'Silver Nemsis'.
Cyberman collectable figures are available from Product Enterprise UK

Cylon Centurion    - From the TV series and film/movies ' Battlestar Galactica' - American  TV 1978 and became a Universal City Studios production.
"Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads a ragtag, fugitive fleet, on a lonely quest -- for a shining planet known as Earth."
The character 'Apollo' explained the Cylons best: 
"They're not like us. They're machines created by living creatures a long, long time ago... a race of reptiles called Cylons. After a while the Cylons discovered humans were the most practical form of creature in this system. So they copied our bodies, but they built them bigger and stronger than we are. And they can exchange parts so they can live forever... There are no more real Cylons. They died off thousands of yahrens ago, leaving behind a race of super-machines, but we still call them Cylons".
There appears to be two types of Cylon robot:

see also Muffit the robot dog (daggitt)   Anyone out there with info and pictures I can use? Webmaster

Dalek  Created for the Doctor Who TV series (UK) and appeared in the Film 'Doctor Who and the Daleks' (1967 BBC Productions).
The Daleks first appearing in the second Dr Who TV story 'The Daleks' (a.k.a. 'The Dead Planet' and 'The Mutants') 1963 and 1964, 
Although not strictly robots, Daleks certainly looks the part.
A Dalek is a bio-mechanical being from the planet Skaro, a planet devastated by a war which raged for a thousand years, poisoning the planet, and mutating its inhabitants.... In the original history, the war was fought between the Dals and the Thals. Radiation caused both races to mutate and become disfigured -- the Dals retreating into metal shells and becoming Daleks, while the Thals came full circle, eventually becoming a race of physically perfect individuals. Dalek history was re-written by Terry Nation in his 1975 story Genesis of the Daleks. In this new history, it is the Kaleds, not the Dals, who become Daleks, after a thousand years of war with the Thals. A physically deformed mad scientist  called Davros, after genetic experiments on his own people, created the Kaled mutants which he then placed in war machines. The result was the Daleks, creatures driven by hate and the desire to exterminate all who oppose them.....
There are many different incarnations of the Dalek - here will be a list...................
Listen:   Exterminate,  Emergency
Dalek collectable figures are available from Product Enterprise UK

Dark Star - see Bomb 20  

Data (Lieutenant Commander)  from the TV series StarTrek Next Generation

Data (played by Brent Spiner) first appeared in StarTrek Next Generation; episode 1,  'Encounter at Farpoint 1987 (or Stardate 41153.7). (Positronic brains where first coined by the writer Isaac Asimov). Data does not exhibit emotion since Dr Soong  withheld the 'emotion chip' for further development, after the disastrous Lore.
See also Lal and Lore

D.A.Y.R.L -  Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form) 1985 Paramount Pictures film

The US military builds a boy robot as part of a program to build super-soldier robots. Some scientists take pity on D.A.Y.R.L and free him; a chase ensues and D.A.Y.R.L loses his memory. He is taken into foster care, all parties thinking he is a normal boy; however they soon find out he is actually a robot with  incredible talents when he helps the local baseball team. The Military eventually capture him and deem the experiment a success - D.A.Y.R.L is about to "scrapped" when..................

Droids
Abbreviated from Androids but not humanlike. Star Wars Droids page

Duey  and  Huey

Dy.Na.Mo.  From the Cartoon Network series Powerpuff Girls episode 13 "Uh Ho Dynamo" .
Dy.Na.Mo stands for Dynamic Nanotechntronic Monobot:  Fearing for the girls safety, the professor builds a robot to help them out....Actually a  semi automatic 'mecha', which the girls pilot; when DyNaMo flies, it's hair rotates and it's feet glow (a parody of  Star Trek ships going into warp (apparently PowerPuff episodes have lots of hidden references to pop culture - link)). The proffessor eventually dismantles Dy.Na.Mo; however, in a later episode he uses the artificially intelligent neural network 'brain' (a tiny two inch cube) to power 'Dinah' a new cousin for the girls.........Then a puppy.........then a.......  
Anyone got a picture of 

ED-209   from the film Robo Cop
ED-209 was intended as a replacement for Robocop but went berserk during a demonstration.
Sorry but I have lost the identity of the person who created the excellent green picture.

"Drop your weapon you have 10 seconds to comply" Research Triangle/Lab/6391/5ed.html

Frankenstein  The Book 1817 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and films 1910 on
Not a robot, but perhaps one of the first ideas that mankind could create a living entity. Constructed from dead tissue and given life by Dr Frankenstein with the aid of a few volts from a passing lightning storm....
Mary had the creation destroy the creator thus setting some sort of robot trend!
Incidentally Shelley was my mothers maiden name!
Links: Mary Shelley , Mary Shelley

Futurama Robots Matt Groening is creator and executive producer of 'Futurama'; copyrighted by and a trademark of 20th Century FOX and Curiosity Company.
The first Futurama episode "Space Pilot 3000" (1999) saw Fry awakening from a cryogenic deep freeze in the year 3000. Fry becomes friendly with a degenerate robot called Bender and a beautiful alien Cyclops  named Leela. Fry's great, great, great - etc. nephew, Professor Farnsworth hires the three to work in his intergalactic delivery service.
As you would expect the future is riddled with robots, here is a  not exhaustive list, with pictures where possible:

Thanks to all picture makers and Kevin Ayre for suggesting the Futurama bots.
For great Futurama pics try this link  

Galatea  was the female Android (Gynoid perhaps) the film Bicentennial Man - Galatea played the dumb blond.    

Gigantor From the 1963-67 Japanese TV series
Gigantor was a jet-propelled flying robot created by Dr. Sparks, his son Jimmy Sparks (12) controlled the robot, assisting Inspector Blooper of the Japanese police to fight crime. Produced by TCJ Animation Centre.
other sites: Toon Tracker has some Gigantor pictures.

Gog   B movie/film 1954
Scientists working on induced hibernation for space travel are killed. Security agent Sheppard arrives at the secret underground space research base to investigate possible sabotage.
He finds that the whole base is controlled by a supercomputer called NOVAC and its robots Gog and Magog - A strange aircraft is detected high overhead.......
(extract is from the International Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com ) My thanks to Toni Thompson .

Gog comes from the bible (Ezekiel's visions 38:10-12) there would be an evil king named Gog who ruled over a northern territory called Magog. This king would stir up all the nations against Jerusalem. But God would destroy them and Gog.

Gort      Movie/Film 'The Day the Earth Stood Still ' (1952) 20th Century Fox
Gort - Master of the Guardians, appeared in the 1952 Science Fiction movie epic 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'. The first alien robot to be displayed on a movie screen. My thanks for the icon to http://members.yourlink.net/jgerard/gort/images/
Link: Friends of Gort 

Hektor    Robot from the film 'Saturn 3'  produced by Incorporated Television Company (ITC)1980

A headless psychopathic robot.  If the devil was mechanical, this is he; The Fu*%er was a demon!

Two romantically involved Hydroponics scientists, Alex (Farrah Fawcett) and Adam (Kirk Douglas) are producing food on one of Saturn's moons. When a madman, Benson (Harvey Keitel), arrives. Benson assembles a Demi-God Series robot, called Hektor, to increase output.  After linking with Hektor to educate it in basic functions; the robot takes on Bensons 'lunacy' and lust for Farrah Fawcett. The fist victim is a small pooch (Sally) who becomes a furry pizza under Hektors tread. Then the gore kicks in...Harvey Keitel loses his head whilst Hektor fashions a new look for himself........ 

Link        http://www.devildead.com/indexsaturn3.htm

Hel  see Maria Robot

Honda's walking robot  see  P3

Huey  Two legged helper robot from the film Silent Running

Jetsons house robot. see  Rosie 
The Jetsons are a futuristic cartoon family,  drawn by the Hanna Barbera Studios.

Johnny five  From the 1988 film 'Short circuit' Columbia Pictures
Johnny five was a cute little military robot that became 'alive' after having an almighty shock. Johnny five managed to get everywhere simply by using his triangular caterpillar tracks or hopping onto various moving vehicles.

K-9 Created for the Doctor Who TV series
K-9 was a robotic dog which functioned as a mobile computer/defense system.  K-9 joined Dr Who when his original owner, Professor Marius ('The Invisible Enemy' 8 Oct. 1977), was unable to bring him back to Earth due to luggage limits.
There have been three K-9s:
K-9 Mk I stayed with Leela on Gallifrey.
K-9 Mk II constructed by the Doctor remained in E-Space with Romana.
K-9 Mk III was a gift from the Doctor to Sarah Jane Smith.
My K-9 scratch built model

Kraftwerk Robots   Original track on the Man-Machine album. The Robots Cover album was released in 1991. Kraftwerk performed the track dressed as the robots.

Lal     from the TV series Star Trek Next Generation 1989
In the 3rd season episode 'Offspring' - Stardate 43657.0. Data, inspired by a cybernetics conference, creates  Lal (played by Hallie Todd), an android "daughter". Starfleet send an Admiral with the intention of taking Lal off the Enterprise, Data's child experiences an irreversible malfunction (emotion!). Lal 'dies' but Data, of course, can show no emotion...

Larry 3000    A Cranky Robot from the Cartoon Network series 'Time Squad' - Created, directed and executive-produced by Dave Wasson circa 2002

Larry 3000 is a robot who has been programmed in etiquette, culture and languages for diplomatic negotiations. (similar to C3-PO in Star Wars) Larry 3000, who incidentally is voiced by Mark Hamill (Star Wars fame), helps the however  the problem is that history has become unstable. In order to keep the perfect future world, Time Cops were created to monitor history and go back in time to fix things when something goes wrong. Unfortunately  they don't know history very well. The duo find an orphan boy named Otto who insists he knows all about history and can help........... 
Link to : Draw Larry

Lego Mindstorms Robot construction set
link: http://www.legomindstorms.com/

Lore    from the TV series Star Trek Next Generation 1987
Lore (also played by Brent Spiner ) was the fourth creation of Dr Noonen Soong. In episode 12 - 'DATALORE'  Stardate 41242.2, we see Data visit his home world of Omicron Theta IV. There, he discovers  parts of another android uncommonly like himself. Starfleet reassemble Data's "twin brother" Lore, only to find him possessing the emotion greed........ 

Lost in space robot see B-9