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[[File:cutmachines01 8826.png|link=WALL-E|frame|awww...]]
Sometimes, a robotic character, despite its composition of hard circuits and cold metal, [[Moe|completely melts your heart]].
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Sometimes overlaps with [[Robot Buddy]] and [[Amusing Alien]]. Not to be confused with [[Robot Girl]], which is a [[Fetish Fuel|different kind of cute]].
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When they have no clearly defined story purpose and/or go past adorable and into [[Tastes Like Diabetes]], they become part of [[Kids and Cute Robots]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The Tachikomas from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''. Cutest [[Spider Tank]]s ever. Also designated [[Badass Adorable]], given that they're capable of taking down opponents several times their size. Without weapons. With them, they're essentially an urban Act Of God.
* Some of the robots in ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' and ''[[Pluto]]''. Even the more overtly robotic ones, like [https://web.archive.org/web/20160821122057/http://www.onemanga.com/Pluto/41/12
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' has Sho's Vehicroid monsters which feature various vehicles from tricycles to bullet trains. All of which are adorable...and [[Badass Adorable|badass]].
* The Haros from ''[[Gundam]].''
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* [[WALL-E]] is probably the [[Trope Codifier]]. See image above.
* Johnny Five from ''[[Short Circuit]]''.
* C-3PO and R2-D2 from ''[[Star Wars]]'' are the [[Trope
** The Death Star's 'Mouse' droids.
* Herbie.
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* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]:'' because of his hulking design, Roofus [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070918.html ''can'' be scary,''] but usually he's just [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20070616.html childlike and lovable.]
* Agatha Heterodyne's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091002 little clanks] ("dingbots") in [[Girl Genius]].
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has a few, even [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-06-22 Longshoreman Of The Apocalypse] is a borderline case (which is no small feat for a tank hull with head and appendages slapped on). Then "Tenzy" (yet another quirky sentient superweapon of a dubious legal status) started to [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-05-31 detach part of itself] as a ridiculously cute [[Attack Drone]] somewhat resembling EVE from ''[[WALL-E]]''.
** The Esspererin (they are considered a sophont species, but turned out to be "solar powered [[Mechanical Lifeforms|robo-fairies]]") get more than their share of [//www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-09-06 gawking admiration].
== Web Original ==
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