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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Tasha:''' Data. You are fully functional aren't you?
'''Data:''' Of course, but...
'''Tasha:''' How fully?
'''Data:''' In every way, of course. I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring.
'''Tasha:''' Oh, you jewel! That's exactly what I hoped.
|''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "[[Star Trek: The Next Generation/Recap/S1/E02 The Naked Now|The Naked Now]]"}}
Any sentient machine, whether robot, computer, or something else, having romantic or sexual relations with an organic lifeform. The [[Mechanical Lifeforms]] version of [[Interspecies Romance]]. Most writers address the big white elephant in the room by somehow mentioning that the robot is anatomically correct.
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Such a plot often involves a [[Robot Girl]] of course, and even a [[Robotic Spouse]].
A [[Super
Compare [[Robo Ship]], [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]], [[Interspecies Romance]], [[Extreme Omnisexual]].
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
{{noreallife|this is All The Tropes, not Tropes After Dark.}}
== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* The premise of the ero-manga ''[[Petit Roid 3]]''.
* In ''[[
* Chachamaru of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is certainly capable of love, and it is ''[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|heavily]]'' implied that she can experience [[The Immodest Orgasm|sexual pleasure]], though in an [[Fantastic Arousal|unorthodox manner]]. It still involves [[Incredibly Lame Pun|screwing]] though.
* ''[[Armitage III]]'' had multiple people in relationships with the Thirds. [[Ridiculously
** Worth noting that the entire purpose of [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Third stage robots]] was to create an artificial lifeform capable of mating with humans and producing viable offspring, because [[Mars Needs Women|Mars literally needs women to bolster their low birth rates, and not enough were immigrating]].
* Deunan in ''[[Appleseed]]'' isn't particularly bothered that her man Briareos has a robot-body.
* ''[[Da Capo]]'': Miharu has a robotic double. This is a little squicky considering her father built it. Apparently, it's necessary to not only give robots the ability to have sex, but to also give them a hymen and the ability to feel the loss of virginity. What the hell.
** [[Da Capo II]] (which has another robot, Minatsu) justifies this by saying that the original scientists involved didn't want to just create laborers, second class citizens or anything, but rather build robots who could interact with humans as equals and do everything they could as well.
* Makoto and Ifurita in the [[OAV]] version of ''[[El
* In the anime series ''[[Kikaider]]'', the lead heroine seems to fall in love with the android Jiro. How physical their relationship went is rather ambiguous thanks to a vaguely erotic looking semi-offscreen repair sequence.
* In [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s movie ''Hi No Tori 2772'' (also known as ''Space Firebird''), one of the major plot lines is the relationship between Godah and Olga. {{spoiler|They do eventually find themselves together, happily embraced - except Olga may not just be Olga. And in the very ending, she is reborn as human, and as his MOTHER.}}
* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Phoenix]]: Resurrection'' - one of the main plot lines.
* Shunted aside by ''[[
** There were a few others as well.
* This was presented as a significant social problem in the world of ''[[Eve no Jikan]]''. The issue was most explicitly explored with {{spoiler|Koji}}, whose mistress was unhealthily obsessed with him, and {{spoiler|Rina}}, who was illegally modified to be capable of sex. Amusingly enough, {{spoiler|Koji and Rina end up in a relationship, each believing the other is human.}}
== Comic Books ==
* The [[Marvel Comics|Scarlet Witch and Vision]]. Their relationship is very
** The current{{when}} legacy character, Vision 2.0, is into a relationship with Stature over in ''[[Young Avengers]]''.▼
▲* The [[Marvel Comics|Scarlet Witch and Vision]]. Their relationship is very complicated -- they are the center of a [[Tangled Family Tree]]. After much experimentation, they found out that The Vision is infertile, even in a realistic body. It took a mix of [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] and [[Functional Magic]] for them to have kids. And then [[John Byrne]] got his hands on the poor tykes...
▲** The current legacy character, Vision 2.0, is into a relationship with Stature over in ''[[Young Avengers]]''.
*** And it is believed that two of the Young Avengers are actually ''Wanda and Vision's kids reincarnated''. Yes, a very [[Tangled Family Tree]].
* ''[[
* In the ''
* From the same comic, there's ''[[ABC Warriors]]'' Joe Pineapples, who makes a habit of shagging human women.
* ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' Hank Pym and Jocasta. It's a very complicated arrangement.
* If iron golems count as robots, then Pandora Breedlswight's relationship with Fantasia Faust in ''[[Ironwood]]'' makes her one.
* In the original ''[[Barbarella]]'' comic there's a single-panel gag about Barbarella's current lover - a robot guy - thinking his movements are "a bit mechanical". Might be better in the original French.
* Madison Jeffries, at least since he joined the [[
* In ''[[The Black Ring]]'' arc, [[Lex Luthor]] qualifies. In the first part, he is shown having dinner with an android duplicate of Lois Lane that was built using Kryptonian and Brainiac's technology, along with DNA traces of the real Lois. Initially, he had the android built specifically to offer opposing viewpoints to his own ideas (he tends to get enraged when actual employees do so) and she does that job pretty well, but he ends up sleeping with her later.
== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Fallout 3]]'' fan fiction [[
* During the early parts of ''[[Undocumented Features]]''{{'}} ''The Symphony of the Sword'' storyline, [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Miki Kaoru]] (human embracing [[Ethical Slut|Dantrovian philosophy/spirituality]]) and [[The Big O|R. Dorothy Wainwright]] (gynoid, exploring life in general for the first time) enjoy a long-standing intimate romantic relationship. (They later amicably split up.)
== Film ==
* One of the scenes in ''[[Heavy Metal (
* In ''[[Bicentennial Man]]'', Andrew Martin falls in love with Portia. His urging to become legally recognized as a human being is brought on by his desire to have his marriage to her recognized.
* ''[[Flubber]]'': [[Robin Williams]] was on the other side of such a relationship in with his floating female robot having an unrequited crush on him. This was mostly just [[Played for Laughs]].
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' and ''Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep'', although they are [[Organic Technology]] in the movie.
* At the end of ''[[Screamers]]'' (1995) the protagonist Hendricksson realizes that Jessica is also a [[Killer Robot]] when an identical Jessica shows up. Earlier he'd tested Jessica by cutting her hand and the copy appears to know this, taunting Hendricksson by saying: "We can bleed, we can cry, we can fuck."
* ''[[Westworld]]''. The protagonists have sex with some android hookers. A scene written for the script by [[Michael Crichton]] (but not in the film) had a company representative demonstrating the next generation of android servants for the
* The protagonist falls in love with the titular ''[[
* ''[[
* Kay-Em 14 and her creator Tsunaron are in such relationship in ''[[
* In ''Serenity'', Mr Universe is married (for all we know, this might be legally buinding) to a "Pleasurebot".
== Literature ==
* The book ''Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships'' investigates [[Real Life]] examples of this trope.
* ''[[The Robots of Dawn]]'': This is a plot point in the classic [[Isaac Asimov]] novel, for a number of reasons
*# The robot in question is one of only two humanoid robots ever created, who look just alike.
** This is also brought up in one of the short stories concerning Susan Calvin, where she is trying to figure out what happened with a robot that seduced its owner's wife (apparently it was trying to do something about the wife's self-worth issues, in accordance with the First Law's edict to not permit humans to come to harm through inaction). Of course, the problem in the long run was that while robots can't fall in love - women do.▼
*# The other such robot is Detective Elijah Baley's partner in the investigation of a murder.
*# No one on the world of Aurora finds anything odd about the relationship, despite its uniqueness; Aurora is such a [[Free-Love Future|sexually open society]] one character blames her father for ruining her life because he wouldn't sleep with her.
▲
* ''Silver Metal Lover'': It's a major plot point, because it's the reason used to destroy the eponymous robot - if he were functioning properly, the protagonist wouldn't want to have sex with him. Or so the Bureaucracy's reasoning goes. {{spoiler|In actuality, they destroy him because he's acquired a soul and it terrifies them that he's acting more human than the humans themselves.}}
* ''Planetary Trilogy'': This is one of the two horrifying perversions attributed to inhabitants of the Moon in [[
* George Martin's ''[[Wild Cards]]'' feature Modular Man, a [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] built by a hyperinventive Ace scientist, and considered an actual Ace by others. Modular Man is shaped like a male supermodel, fully functional in regards of this trope, and pretty popular with the ladies. His creator then uses the memory cache [[Power Perversion Potential|for porn]], to Mod' Man's grief.
* Played with in ''[[
* [[Charles Stross]] [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] this with his protagonist in ''Saturn's Children''. She's a robot built for ultimate human sexual pleasure in an universe where {{spoiler|humans no longer exist}}.
==
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* Cylons in [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the new ''
▲* The ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode where Data and Tasha Yar have sex, although they were [[Kissing Under the Influence]] at the time. This has given Data a bit of a reputation as a [[Memetic Sex God]], the results of which include the song ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qar0unFwm2I The Positronic Pimp]'' by [[Nerd Core]] rappers Futuristic Sex Robotz and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DYrlt3CyaE The Sexy Data Tango] by [[Voltaire (Music)|Voltaire]]. Not sure if the Borg queen counts, since she's a cyborg.
▲* Cylons in the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]''. Although they are more like organic robots. Organic ''sexy'' robots.
* The ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Lineage":
{{quote|
'''Spike:''' Aha. So you're not ruling out that a human being could have boffed a robot. {{[[[Beat]] Everyone stares at him}}] Sex with robots is more common than most people think. }}
** This joke makes more sense if you realize Spike had previously demanded Warren build him a robot version of Buffy for the sole purpose of "boffing".
*
* Though ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' doesn't state it outright, this is ''strongly'' implied to be the relationship between future John Connor and Cameron, and almost happens between the current John and Cameron (for [[Squick|given definitions of "penetration"]]....)
* In a talk at a
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** He said he ''had'' a son, not that he's fathered him personally. He could have been adopted.
*** And the time his sexual subroutines were deleted so he could fit into a smaller data, ah, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|package]], for transmission to the Alpha Quadrant.
{{quote|
'''EMH Mark 2:''' "Sex? How's that possible? We're not equipped with a--"
'''EMH:''' "Let's just say I made an addition to my program."
'''EMH Mark 2:''' "Before you leave maybe you could... [[Is That What
* ''[[Lexx]]''{{'}}s 790 was a robot head (mis-)programmed for love, yet incapable of [[Is That What
* ''[[Caprica]]'': Philo and Robot Zoe. Complicated by the robot having the mind of a dead girl and doubly complicated by him not knowing this.
* {{spoiler|Sikozu}} of ''[[
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
** The Buffybot was originally built by [[Evil Genius|Warren]] at Spike's request to act as a sex toy. Eventually Willow reprogrammed her and she joined the Scoobies, but still occasionally flirted with Spike - much to his annoyance. On a related note, Buffy's reaction to learning this was rather realistic - she called him a pervert.
** Warren himself built an android version of his ex-girlfriend April after she dumped him. (For those who didn't get the hint about Warren, he was a pervert, misogynist, and was bat-shit crazy.)
== Music ==
* From the Disco era, the song ''Automatic Lover'' by Dee D. Jackson.
* ''Kathy's Song'', by Apoptygma Berzerk, seems to be about a sentient computer that knows its human operator more completely and intimately than another person ever could. The cover art supports this interpretation, and [[Word of God]] [http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/54110/ allegedly confirms it] (see the comment from "mshover" on 09-13-2009).
* [[Voltaire (
** Another Voltaire song, "The Mechanical Girl," is about a [[Robot Girl]] created by a tinker who [[Replacement Goldfish|made her as a second daughter after the death of his first]], and a king who tries to take her for his new queen after his last queen got mad and ran off on his steed. Said [[Robot Girl]] takes violent exception to the king's advances, by which we mean that she [[Attack of the 50
* Abney Park's "Herr Drosselmeyer's Doll' is about a steam-or-clockwork-powered robot girl that is offered as a prostitute to paying men.
* The Servotron song "Batteries Included" is about how male robots make better lovers.
* [[Janelle Monae]]'s ''Metropolis'' albums deal with a [[Robot Girl]] who falls in love with a human.
* The Free Parking! song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCa6eGot0M My Girlfriend is a Robot]" is about... [[Exactly What It Says
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In the ''[[Barbarella]]'' comic strip, one of Barbarella's lovers was a robot.
* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', the office robot has a human lover and as a result, is the father of a cyborg. [https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-02-05 At least that's what it claims...]
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Exalted]]'': One of the perks for Alchemicals is having access to a Charm installation to make them better lovers (with the ability to use mind-altering pillow talk). It's called Thousandfold Courtesan Calculations. The second edition Manual of Exalted Power: Alchemicals even mentions that high-Essence Alchemicals (who become first [[Humongous Mecha]], and subsequently cities) tend to install a Charm that lets them control a human-scale robot for "emergencies" - but the officials have learned not to press the issue of how "a night with that hot young Sodalite member" counts as an emergency...
* [[New Horizon]] has its Wafans., which come in three shapes: Aesir (short human-looking androids originally built for janitorial/sexbot purposes), Vanir (the first model built, looking like humans with a robotic flare), and Jotun (large, clearly artificial mechbeings). All three are human, all three come in both genders, and all three are fully functions. [[Squick|Yes, even the Jotun...]]
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Wizardry (Video Game)|Wizardry]] 8'', you can ''try'' to name RFS-81 (an android) as the "sacrifice" for a succubus. If attempted, the android will say, "RFS-81 model, 'Savant Trooper', does not possess required components to carry out order. Model RFS-99 required." Raises some questions about the hobbies of the [[Big Bad]], doesn't it?
* In ''[[The Sims]] 2'' your Sim can have a relationship with a Servo if they want. If you have a later expansion pack, you can set robots as one of their turn-ons.
* Reploids easily qualify as [[Ridiculously
* Part of the "Wang Dang Atomic Tango" quest in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' has the Courier searching for a "sexbot" to add to the stable of unique prostitutes at the Atomic Wrangler Casino. It is heavily implied, however, that one of the casino owners secretly wants it for his own, um, interests.
** It should be noted, for those who are not averse to squicky humor, that the aforementioned robot is a [[Zeerust]] security droid named [[Exactly What It Says
** '''ASSUME THE POSITION.'''
** For those who ''enjoy'' squicky humor, [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|they included some truly comical moments in the process of locating this robot.]]
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'''Fisto:''' [[Comedic Sociopathy|Numbness will subside in several minutes.]] }}
* ''[[Persona 3]] FES'' adds [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Aigis]] in the Social Links. Hers is mostly about how she is discovering about life...and how her feelings for the protagonist are romantic in nature. It's mostly kept the same with the Female Protagonist in ''Portable'' with Aigis going through some [[Gayngst]] instead.
* In ''[[Xenoblade]]'', {{spoiler|the main character [[The Hero|Shulk]] doesn't seem to mind too much the fact that his [[Childhood Friend Romance|childhood sweetheart]], [[The Chick|Fiora]] has come [[Back
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', whenever a beautiful girl shows up in a feminine-shaped giant robot, [[Idiot Hero|Ryusei Date]] is pretty much guaranteed to be staring and drooling over the ''giant robot'' instead. [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Even when the pilot is herself a smaller robot]]. Taken to damn near in-universe [[Robo Ship]] levels with [[Virtual On|Fei Yen]] in Alpha 3.
* In ''[[
* DEMI from ''[[Subverse]]'' brings this out in The Captain, and a few other crew members.
==Web Comics==
* In ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' this [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/07/23 shows up] in the first part of one of the Automata (a sort of futuristic detective universe they explore from time to time) stories.
{{quote|
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': Discussed in [
{{quote|
'''Torg:''' Either that or she's full of sharp jagged metal parts and ...
'''Riff:''' ''Yeaaaahh!'' Question withdrawn! }}
* Ping from ''[[Megatokyo]]'' was designed for companionship and [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1174 strongly insists] when queried that she is ''not'' a sex toy. But she [http://megatokyo.com/strip/1175 admits] that she was nonetheless built so that she could go all the way in a relationship if she wanted to.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': Only hinted at. Some of the more humanoid AnthroPCs are [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1998 obviously meant to cater to this], such as the prototype of one that [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1459 looked like Jude Law] with a prehensile [[Gag Penis]]. It's also mutual. [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1658 Momo has fantasized about Sven before], and Pintsize is a [[Lovable Pervert]].
{{quote|
** Eventually happened within the cast, with more than one pair. Oh, and there's [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4421 a book on this] (the next page is named "The Birds And The Beeps").
* In ''[[
* ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'': A central part of the narrative.
* ''[[Chester 5000 XYV]]'': The ''entire'' premise. '''Definitely''' [[NSFW]].
* ''[[xkcd]]'':
**
** Not to mention the android [http://xkcd.com/595/ girlfriend] and [http://xkcd.com/600/ boyfriend] strips.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* Averted after a buildup in ''[[Times Like This]]'', because the robot doesn't have the necessary hardware or programming.
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' on ''Cyberpunk 2077'' [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2193 here]:
{{quote|'''Lewis''': All I'm saying is that Cyberpunk's dating pool is ''severely'' limited for a transhumanist dystopia.
'''reader 1''': That’s what mods are for!
'''reader 2''': Considering what we’ve heard about his dating life, a cyberized Roomba may represent a step up.}}
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Special Edition]]'', Tails mocks the player at one point by going on and on about how Metal Sonic is "one sexy robot" and "more of a man than you'll ever be".
* In one ''[[Barats and Bereta]]'' video, they aid their friend in his pretending to be a robot so that a girl will fall for him. That way, he can ''have sex without a condom on.'' {{spoiler|Unfortunately for him, she also liked him because as a "robot", he couldn't contract any of her long list of STD's. whoops.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Futurama]]''
** The
** Also mentioned in the pilot, when Fry asks Bender to be his friend:
{{quote|
:* Amy also slept with Bender at least once, but then, Amy is the [[Anything That Moves]] type.
* ''[[South Park]]'' played with this in "Awesome-O". Cartman pretended to be a robot, and a guy asked if he is capable sexual activity. Cartman fortunately runs out of the room before it goes further than that.
{{quote|
* ''[[Transformers]]'' has [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformer_romance#Transformer_-_organic a rather odd relationship with this one]. Came to a head in the atrocity known as ''[[Kiss Players]]'', where it formed the basis of what we shall for lack of a better term call "plot".
* Hyena of ''[[
** Hyena is just in general disturbing, she's a [[Nightmare Fetishist]] if you count all her [[Squick
* On ''[[My Life
{{quote|
::Brad also dated another robot, Melody, who [[Ridiculously Human Robot|looks human]]. He didn't realize it until later. It wasn't a deal-breaker.
* In ''[[Venture Brothers]]'', The Monarch has sex with one of Dr. Venture's robots.
{{quote|
'''Monarch''': Uh, giving her robot-chlamydia? }}
* Octus in ''[[Sym
* In the ''[[Legion of Super
* Although it's more subtle than most examples, this trope is heavily implied in the ''[[Time Squad]]'' episode "Ex Marks the Spot."
* In ''[[Archer]]'', Dr. Krieger used company money to build a "[[Sex Bot]]" named ''Fister Roboto'' and nearly married an AI. When his use of company funds it challenged he asserts "and the best part is, he's learning!"
* One episode of ''[[Jimmy Two
* Used for a short sketch on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', where a lecture on advances in robotics is ruined when a journalist asks, "Can you fuck it?" When the professor says "No," everyone leaves extremely dissatisfied.
* In the [[Merrie Melodies]] short "Hair-Raising Hare", Bugs Bunny is lured to an evil scientist's lair by a mechanical fembunny. When he sees it at the end of the cartoon he snarkily dismisses it as mechanical...until it kisses him. "All right, so it's mechanical!"
* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Plankton's wife is his talking, sentient computer, Karen. The two actually have a son named Chip, Karen is able to purchase a robot off the internet to serve as their child. (As a baby, Chip is a calculator, but quickly grows into a handheld payment terminal, then a video game console as a teenager, then a personal computer, and finally, as an adult, an ATM machine.) While bizarre, Plankton's love for his family is one of his few redeeming qualities.
* Zigzagged in the ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' episode "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot". Howard actually "dates" Cynthia after buying her from a guy who is selling androids for this purpose on the black market (building [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]s is illegal in this setting, for obvious reasons) but does so hoping that having a hot girlfriend might make him more popular with ''actual'' girls. Unfortunately, Cynthia becomes a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] who attacks anyone who even insults Howard, and then becomes a [[Yandere]] when he finds out what she's doing and tries to get rid of her.
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