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 … 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.
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Pre-1950
• The Mechanical Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in A Clever Dummy, a Sennett silent See more

• Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870)
• The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's … See more

• Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio series (1978–1980)
• Tidy, … See more

1960s and earlier
• Mechano, the robotic cat programmed to kill or banish mice from houses, from the 1952 episode, "Push … See more