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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })"Robot" once meant "worker" or "serf."note Derived from the Czech word "Robota," meaning "work." Pronounced, "Ro-BO-ta" (rather than "RO-bot-a"). In modern use, the term describes any mechanism or even a disembodied computer program capable of performing tasks autonomously with little to no human intervention. In science fiction, however, it's used for any person-like machine, even when they no longer serve a dedicated purpose, such as in the event of a Robot Uprising. So it can be a bit surprising when an otherwise futuristic robot's primary purpose is something mundane, like cleaning or assembling automobiles, even though that's exactly what they do in Real Life.
Named for the Roomba automated vacuum cleaner, probably the closest thing in modern everyday use to the Robot Maids science fiction has been promising us for decades.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })This kind of robot can help to set the work on the hard end of the Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness. It's likely to be found in Mundane Dogmatic stories.
Compare and Contrast: Mecha-Mook, Robot Buddy, and Robot Maid. May be centrally controlled by a Smart House.
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Much like the Perfect Dark example above, one level of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey has Zoe sneaking into a corporate headquarters by following cleaning bots through passages that open for them. |
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Sluggy Freelance features the Digbots. |
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In Engine Heart, the Roomba is You!! |
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In Mobile Police Patlabor, Labors are piloted mecha used mainly for construction work, originally necessitated by the needs of the massive Babylon Project and then found to be useful in more mundane ways. Unfortunately, this includes destructive criminal purposes, so the police had to request their own fighting version. |
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They show up every so often in Doraemon. Doraemon himself is one - a babysitter robot, to be exact - but is also so over-engineered that he can run off and have planet-saving adventures in the movies. |
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century has an episode where a lowly "maintenance android" malfunctions and becomes dangerous. |
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| | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century |
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The Pit Droids in the podrace segment of The Phantom Menace. |
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Leeron uses these in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. |
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| | Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann |
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In Paranoia, scrubots are one of the most common types of bot. |
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Kara of Detroit: Become Human is a housekeeping android, and one of the duties assigned to her in her first chapter is to vacuum the living room. Accomplishing this amounts to activating her owner's Roomba-esque hovering vacuum and letting it run its course. |
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| | Detroit: Become Human (Video Game) |
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In Idiocracy, a floor cleaning robot is shown repeatedly banging into a wall announcing "Your floor is now clean!" over and over. Given the putrid condition of the floor everywhere but where the robot is, it had been at this for a long time. |
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In Freefall, there are many robots fulfilling this role, such as carnivorous waffle irons. |
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Johnny Test: the many varieties of robots Susan and Mary create. |
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| | Johnny Test |
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Passengers (2016): The ship is equiped with numerous roomba-bots to clean up after the passengers. Jim even intentionally drops stuff on the floor to get their attention, being so deprived of any sort of interaction as the only person who's awake. The fact that an increasing number of these bots randomly go haywire over time is a sign that the ship's systems are slowly failing. |
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A Certain Magical Index has the trash-can shaped maintenance robots that are everywhere around Academy City. They are usually seen cleaning up trash, fixing minor mechanical problems, or getting humorously interfered with by Misaka. |
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An otherwise ordinary, inexpensive 1980's vacuum cleaner (complete with a tube connecting to a wide floor brush attachment) has autonomy and makes rounds in the house where Susie is staying in Japan, in Too Much: The Robot With a Heart. |
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The Skutters from Red Dwarf have arms with three claws and an eye on the end, and according to Lister they have a better union than the technicians (which would be why they weren't cleaning out the soup machines). |
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A small robot called Haro is the franchise mascot. Depending on the adaptation, they're also given combat abilities, but are otherwise just there to be someone's teddy bear. Some iterations (such as Mobile Suit Gundam AGE) have Haros with built-in PCs, meaning they're basically cute laptops with very simple built-in AIs. |
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Most robots from Runaway are designed for one basic, tedious function, although they're not always very good at their tasks. The main character is a policeman whose chief duty is shutting down menial robots that malfunction. |
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Ranka nearly trips over a street-cleaning one in the pilot of Macross Frontier. |
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| | Macross Frontier |
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Helper from The Venture Bros.. |
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The DRDs from Farscape look like yellow Roombas with a pair of eyes on stalks and a retractable tool arm. Crichton taught one to chirp the 1812 overture. |
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One of the common uses for drones in the Mass Effect setting. The geth were originally designed for this purpose, but tinkering with their networked intelligence resulted in the geth gaining collective sentience, and things went downhill from there. |
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| | Mass Effect (Franchise) |
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In Traveller, the adventure Research Station Gamma has maintenance (cleaning) robots. |
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| | Traveller (Tabletop Game) |
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Birdy in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED was built for its own sake. It's functionally the same as Haro was in the original series.
Haros themselves show up in SEED as well. |
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Reed Richards uses little flying robots called "HERBIEs" as his assistants and gofers. These are a Canon Immigrant from the 1970's F.F. cartoon series. |
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The window-replacing and -cleaning droids seen briefly in Attack of the Clones. |
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| | Attack of the Clones |
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In the Iron Man movies, Tony has robotic arm things to help him out when he is inventing, in his garage/lab, one of which he calls "butter-fingers". They seem to get in the way more than help him though and at one point he threatened to donate one to a city college.
Of course, one of those robots saves Tony's life after Stane steals his arc reactor and leaves him to die. |
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At one point, Gil and Tarvek realize that the first generation Dingbots (the ones Agatha makes herself) are profoundly different from the standard AI of the Clanks (robot soldiers and/or servants) that exist all over the Girl Genius setting. In this case, they appear to have "The Spark" (the insane genius aspect that allows for amazing inventions that may bend the very laws of physics). |
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Most of the robots on Cubix: Robots for Everyone are of this type, although they are sentient. |
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| | Cubix: Robots for Everyone (Animation) |
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Commander Kitty has MOUSE, the little robotic avatar of the ship's A.I.. According to the notes on this page, it seems to do little more than serve as a mobile communicator, a function that's not always desirable... |
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Space Quest has several. And they can give you Yet Another Stupid Death. |
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| | Space Quest (Video Game) |
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The little mouse robot in the hallway of the Death Star in A New Hope. Perhaps also the larger one seen in Palpatine's entrance. |
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| | A New Hope |
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The Fifth Element has the cleaning robots that instantly jump into action in Zorg's office. |
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| | The Fifth Element |
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In Robotix, the title robots were piloted mecha originally used for construction and the like. After a catastrophe, the main characters end up getting their minds permanently transferred into them. |
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| | Robotix |
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Several in WALL•E. Nearly every non human-character is one of these. This is because in this future, all of mankind has become infantilized (even becoming overweight blobs) and living a life of endless leisure with the robots performing all of the manufacturing, maintenance, and clean-up duties. |
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| | WALL•E |
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In Futurama, Bender lampshades this by complaining about small robots cleaning up the trash at a not-baseball game (after he throws some trash).
Bender himself was designed to bend girders to precise tolerances (even if he has some other capabilities). For that matter, a lot of other robots seem to be designed for a specific purpose and appear overqualified for it.
Amy has a sentient alarm clock robot. She once hooked up with Bender. |
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| | Futurama |
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In Questionable Content, Pintsize (himself an AI) attaches a rocket drive to an actual Roomba. The Roomba flies off through the window, only to return several strips later - together with a family of little airborne kids!. |
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| | QuestionableContent |
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In JauntTrooper, utility bots patrol the abandoned MegaCorp facilities, cleaning up anything they deem a mess. This can be useful as well as aggravating to the player. |
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| | JauntTrooper (Video Game) |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Adam Jensen has a roomba in his office. Earlier games have cleaning robots roaming around. Because of the odd nature the game's AI is handled in the first game, a little messing around can cause NPCs to fight the vacuum cleaner. |
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| | Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) |
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In one level of Perfect Dark, Joanna must follow little cleaning robots to get into secret passages that only open for them. |
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| | Perfect Dark (Video Game) |
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Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge. The Robotnik (robot hotel) has a luggage robot (with tentacles to grab bags) that sings a little song to every guest who arrives. It also has bellboy robots to show guests to their rooms. |
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| | The Stainless Steel Rat |
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Tarantulas in Beast Wars has little arachnoid robots that fulfill any number of menial roles such as serving as flashlights, lugging equipment around, and putting Tarantulas back together when necessary. |
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| | Beast Wars |
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The Peebos in Gold Digger.
Arguably a subversion, as the primary function of any Peebo is a self-propelled bomb, even the ones she really didn't create with the express purpose of blowing up. As her Peebos got smarter and/or more specialized, she developed a system that flash/downloaded their AIs back to her computer right before they exploded.
Played straight with the computer storage Peebo Peecee, however, who demanded that his bomb be removed as soon as he was told about it. |
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| | Gold Digger (Comic Book) |
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The Ratchet & Clank universe is chock-full of Ridiculously Human Robots, and there are still simple, apparently non-sentient cleaner bots and guard bots. |
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| | Ratchet & Clank (Video Game) |
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DC Heroes. A Clyde is a light-duty robot that is controlled by the equivalent of a home computer. It has automatic systems installed that allow it to act as an average housekeeper (sweeping, dusting, etc.). It has a voice synthesizer with the vocabulary of a twelve year old and the speaking ability of a six year old. |
| | In the Future, We Still Have Roombas / int_ddf3c3ac |
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| | DC Heroes (Tabletop Game) |
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In The Emperor's Finest we discover that in the Grimdarkness of the Far Future Space Marines use recon rumbas. |
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| | Ciaphas Cain |
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Mobile Suit Gundam has the titular Mobile Suits being the natural progression of space colony maintenance mecha, at least one of which - the Ball - shows up.
A small robot called Haro is the franchise mascot. Depending on the adaptation, they're also given combat abilities, but are otherwise just there to be someone's teddy bear. Some iterations (such as Mobile Suit Gundam AGE) have Haros with built-in PCs, meaning they're basically cute laptops with very simple built-in AIs. |
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| | Mobile Suit Gundam |
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The even smaller one in Revenge of the Sith. |
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| | Revenge of the Sith |
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Vexxarr's ship has several maintenance drones of questionable utility, given that the first time they were used they had to be persuaded not to dispose of him as a waste of resources, and of course there was that time Carl introduced a bit of rebellion into their code so they would assist in one of his mutinies |
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| | Vexxarr (Webcomic) |
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Gamma World 1st Edition (1978). The General Household Robotoid is designed to clean homes. It has cleaning tools such as cleaners, polishers, disinfectants and vacuums. |
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| | Gamma World (Tabletop Game) |
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In Outlaw Star, the title ship is full of little canister-shaped robots that do repairs and minor labor, and which act as extensions of the ship's AI. The crew paints faces on them. |
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| | OutlawStar |
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Dexter's Laboratory has dozens of helper robots working for Dexter. Two of them even got an A Day in the Spotlight episode. |
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| | Dexter's Laboratory |
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In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data discovers that robots of this type, called exocomps, have actually gained sentience. He then starts to fight for their rights. |
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| | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
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