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In a story where sentient robots are commonplace, some of those robots are designed to look feminine. This tends to include sleeker, curvier bodies and bumps on the chest, as well as possible makeup-like patterns on the face. Other [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]] may also be present.

 

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* A commercial for canned goods that aired during the Superbowl in the 80's featured a sleek, CGI-created female robot, animated by matching the movements of a female model in a reclining chair. Unsurprisingly, the commercial spot was called "Sexy Robot".

 

* Aphrodite A, Diana A and Minerva X from ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' and Venus A from ''[[Great Mazinger]]''.

** [[Getter Robo|Getter Q]] and other female robot mooks in [[Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z-hen]] are also this. Go Nagai seems to love this trope

* Gynoids are central to the plot of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]] 2: Innocence''.

 

* Morrigun is a female member of a warrior robot band called the ''[[ABC Warriors]]''. Her combat abilities are derived from secondary bouncer software; her primary function is ''waitress''.

* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s run on ''[[Astonishing X Men]]'', he introduced a new villain called Danger, the AI from the Danger Room developing a murderous personality and building a female-looking robot body for itself.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* One of the earliest examples in film is Hel, from Fritz Lang's ''[[Metropolis]]''. She/it is eventually disguised as the film's heroine, thus ''becoming'' a [[Robot Girl]].

* The cover art for the film ''[[Liquid Sky]]'' has one of these.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The French novel ''La Femme Endormie'' from [[Older Than Radio|1899]]

* The JN ("[[Robot Names|Jane]]") series of robots in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story "Feminine Intuition". The story is practically a lighthearted deconstruction of the trope: US Robots experimenting with artifical sexual characteristics, the project engineers becoming [[Perverse Sexual Lust|bashful]] once they get a feminine voice working, and Susan Calvin ''rolling her eyes at the whole project as hard as she can''.

* The Stalker Fang of ''[[Mortal Engines]]'', while technically a cyborg, not a robot, is designed to look feminine, being sleeker and more elegant than other Stalkers.

* The [[Incredibly Lame Pun|titular]] character in the obscure TSR sci-fi novel ''Warsprite,'' whom the main human protagonist still falls in love with.

* In the novel Code Of The Lifemaker sentient robots (the result of a damaged alien factory ship crashing on the moon Titan and attempting to fulfill its damaged programming imperatives) living in a medieval society actually come in 'male' and 'female' flavors, right down to the females becoming pregnant as a result of programming code exchange which they then upload into one of the many sprawling factory computers where the 'child' is assembled.

 

* The androids (including of course the Anne-droid) in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ep "Bad Wolf".

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Eminem's [[Music Video]] for "We Made You" has [[Transformers|a purple semi truck transform into one of these]], [[Gag Boobs|with certain parts accented]].

* The cover of the [[Aerosmith]] album ''Just Push Play'' depicts a fembot doing a [[Marilyn Maneuver]].

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* The Nova ESR from ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]''.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Juana in ''[[MOTHER 1|EarthBound Zero]]'', and her [[Underground Monkey|sisters]], Nancy and Kelly

* The Gretel series in ''[[Time Splitters]].''

** The fourth, [[Virtual On]] Marz, brought us fem'd versions of a robot with a previously [[Ambiguous Gender]], the three [[Transforming Mecha|MYZR]] Delta units belonging to the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Three Rose Sisters]].

* The ''[[Custom Robo]]'' games have the aptly named Aerial Beauty and <s>[[Bowdlerise|Sassy]]</s> Sexy Stunner robo types.

** Also, any of the above in an SRW game? Ryuusei's been there, drooling. Especially the French Dragon twins.

* The unnamed sex fembot from ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]] FAKK 2''. Julie is less than pleased (more like disgusted) at her addition to the team and takes the first opportunity possible to off her.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Lincoln, Persephone, and Hades from ''[[Coga Suro]].''

* In ''[[Freefall]]'' robots divide themselves into gender categories based on how much talking they do. None of them particularly look gendered, and the identified females are commonly bigger and stronger than their male peers.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* In ''[[Thalia's Musings]]'', Thalia recalls [[Ultimate Blacksmith|Hephaestus]] constructing "solid gold, fully automated, mechanical assistants" that were built "in the form of very attractive women." He got rid of them once he had a girlfriend.

* The mechanical [[Cute Monster Girl|K-Girls]] from ''[[Twisted Kaiju Theater]]'' fall into this category more than [[Robot Girl]] due to being [[Rule 34|sexy]] [[Rule 63|parodies]] of various super-robots and mecha.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Futurama]]'' features fembots in quite a few episodes. Several of these have been [[Love Interests]] for Bender.

** Bender himself, in one episode, becomes one of these after he has the Professor induce a [[Gender Bender]]... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|I just can't bring myself to finish that sentence]].

** Especially notable names include Arcee (pictured above) and Blackarachnia.

*** Except in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', where she's clearly female- but still [[Brawn Hilda|nowhere near attractive]].

** The Marvel Comics Transformers series responds to a letter asking why there were no female Transformers with something to the effect of, "You assume that Transformers are male and female, and that any Transformer not explicitly female is implicitly male." Unfortunately, the current IDW Comics series opted not to do it that way, having a [[Mad Scientist]] turn an Autobot female to see what happens if you throw gender into a genderless race. The victim, Arcee, talks about how people treat her now, and even use different pronouns, and... basically, not being one of the boys anymore. It becomes clear that Jhiaxus didn't introduce gender to a genderless race, but a ''woman'' to an ''all-male'' race - and of course, there is no good reason for non-sexually-reproducing robots to be male, either. Things wind up making [[Voodoo Shark|much less sense]] than they would make if the question were simply ignored, as most series have.

** ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' gave us Thunderblast. Let's see... [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]], [[Underboobs]], and in one scene in ep. 32, ''[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:ThunderblastBoobsAndNipples01.jpg visible nipples]''.

* Jenny from ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''

** Note that it wasn't until the ''end'' of the series that giving Neosapiens the ability to sexually reproduce was even seriously discussed.

* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', Jimmy constructs a robotic substitute mother (AKA Maternotron) while his own mom is away at the spa.

* Piper, Cappy, Aunt Fanny, and Mrs. Copperbottom from ''[[Robots]]''.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Cranius Maximus", Baljeet has fembot [[Summon Backup Dancers|backup singers]] during the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3RfOAk0r9M "Taking on the Big Brain"] musical number.

 

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