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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.

The [[Trope Namer|name]] comes from the 1970's ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' and from ''[[Austin Powers]]'', though the fembots in those were [[Robot Girl|robot girls]]. If you're interested, the technical term for these bots is 'gynoid'; same root as 'android', but 'andro' means male.

 

== [[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]]''.

** Not to mention Wingle from ''[[Mazinkaiser SKL]]''.

** The PSX game ''Getter Robo Daikessen!'' introduces Getter Zan, a Getter Q expy that comes complete with its own different forms.

** Also Piggy, the robot maid that serves all the GGG robots, and may or may not have flirted with Mic Sounders at some point.

* Bo and Boo formed the arms of the ''[[Mighty Orbots]]''.

* Neo Sweden's Nobel Gundam from ''[[G Gundam]]'' deserves mention here.

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'': Though treated in story as a normal human girl, Chachamaru's first body was very obviously that of a robot, with visible joints, jetpack boots, mostly being emotionless (except involving doing stuff like helping kitties and her crush on [[Adorably Precocious Child|Negi]]) and [[Unusual Ears]] for good measure. Also breasts, long hair and <s>[[Fantastic Arousal|seemingly what amounts to]] [[The Immodest Orgasm|sexual excitement when]]</s> let's not get sidetracked there right now. Apparently, nobody actually ''noticed'' the not-quite-human bits besides the resident [[Meta Girl]]. She upgraded into full [[Robot Girl]] status, though, even before becoming indistinguishable in appearance from a human.

* Go Okusaer, Neo Okusaer, Volspinner and Core Gunner of ''[[Godannar]]''

 

* 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.

* 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.

 

 

== [[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]].

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

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

 

== Toys ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

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

* Dolores from ''[[Zone of the Enders]]: Dolores, i'' arguably straddles both lines. She has many of the characterizations of a Robot Girl, but happens to be a [[Humongous Mecha]].

** Enough to be the star of her very own hentai doujin, Dolores X. No we aren't linking you to it!

** Plenty of Orbital Frames, including the Nephitis and Ardjet, look pretty feminine as is.

** The third game, [[Virtual On]] Force, introduced the Guarayakha, which resembles something of a [[Cute Witch]], but in a bizarre subversion, was actually the [[Lightning Bruiser]] boss mecha Jaguarandi in disguise. [[Squick]].

** 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]].

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

* The service droids from ''[[Mr. Robot]]'' have a distinctly feminine shape.

* The Praetorian Clockwork androids in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' come in both male and female varieties. So far [[Robot Girl|IVy]] is the only one that can be considered qualify as sentient.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

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

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** 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]].

** 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.

* Four robotic replicas of Leslie Cohen appear in the ''[[Venture Brothers]]'' season one episode "Past Tense".

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

 

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