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A robot is an electro-mechanical device.

Robot may also refer to:

[edit] Other

• Robot competition is an event where robots have to accomplish a given task.
• Robot Patent, 1771 serf labor reform enacted by Maria Theresa of Austria
• Robot (camera), a German imaging company. Produced the Robot II camera, notably
• Robots Exclusion Standard also known as Robots.txt, an Internet protocol for controlling indexing of pages by spiders
• Traffic light in Southern African English^[1]
• Web robot, automated software program used on the Internet

[edit] Culture

[edit] Characters

• Crow T. Robot, fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Robot Archie, fictional comic book character who first appeared in Lion #1 published in February 1952
• Robot Master (Transformers), character in Marvel's Transformers comics

[edit] Films

• I, Robot (film), 2004 movie that uses some aspects of Asimov's stories
• Endhiran (literally Robot in Tamil), a forthcoming Indian science-fiction film previously known as Robot
• Robot Carnival, Japanese anime film released in 1987
• Robot Jox, 1990 science fiction movie directed by Stuart Gordon
• Robot Monster, 1953 science fiction B-movie made in 3-D
• Robot Stories, 2003 independent film written and directed by Greg Pak
• Robots (film), a 2005 computer-animated film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox

[edit] Games

• Robot (video game series), a short lived series on the NES
• Robots (computer game), a computer game originally developed for the unix operating system.
• Robots (video game), based on the 2005 movie

[edit] Music

• Before the Robots, studio follow-up album to Better Than Ezra's 2001 studio release Closer
• Ima Robot, rock band based in Los Angeles that formed in the early 2000s
• Monsters and Robots, Buckethead's fifth album
• Mr. Roboto, a song partially sung in Japanese dealing with saying hello to a robot
• "Robot", song by The Futureheads from their album The Futureheads
• Robot Rock is the third full-length album by Joy Electric.
• "Robots", song by Flight of the Conchords from their 2007 EP The Distant Future
• "Robots", song by TV on the Radio from their 2002 album OK Calculator
• Robots in Disguise, electro punk band from London and Berlin
• Robotic Empire, s an American record label based out of Richmond, Virginia. They specialize in hardcore punk, metalcore, and alternative rock.
• "The Robots", a song by Kraftwerk from their 1978 album The Man-Machine

[edit] Print

• Robot Visions, collection of science fiction short stories and factual essays by Isaac Asimov
• Robot (manga), series of books containing the art of various Asian artists
• Robots and Empire, 1985 science fiction novel written by Isaac Asimov
• The Complete Robot, collection of science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov written between 1940 and 1976
• The Lotus and the Robot, 1960 book by Arthur Koestler exploring eastern mysticism
• The Rest of the Robots, collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels by Isaac Asimov
• The Robots of Dawn, "whodunit" science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov
• War with the Robots, collection of science fiction stories

[edit] T.V. Series

• Little Robots, stop-motion animated children's TV series
• Real Robot, is a genre of Japanese animation
• Robot Chicken, American stop motion animated television series created by Stoop!d Monkey and Sony Pictures Digital
• Robot (Doctor Who), a 1974–75 Doctor Who serial starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
• Robots in Futurama, robots in the animated series Futurama
• The Robots of Death, serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
• "The Robots" (Code Lyoko episode), the twentieth episode of the French animated television series Code Lyoko

[edit] Other

• Robot (dance), illusionary dance style often combined with popping that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin
• Robot Master, special kind of robot or android in the Mega Man original series that possesses a very advanced level of artificial intelligence
• Superman robots, fictional robots from the DC Comics Universe