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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~Astroboy_9138~~Astroboy 9138.png\|link=Astro Boy\|~~right~~frame]] A robot built to look and/or act like a child. A good number of these are boys, but there are many that are [[Robot Girl\|girls]]. Possibly made as part of a [[Robo -Family]], or to be taken care of as a child of a human family (possibly as a [[Replacement Goldfish]] for a lost child of the creator or if the creator can't have biological children). When the kid's mechanic serves as a mentor and emotional caretaker, he's a [[Motherly Scientist\|Fatherly Scientist]] ([[Motherly Scientist]] if it's a woman). May fall into [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] or [[Older Than They Look]] unless the robot was very recently built. If they ''were'' built very recently, they might actually be [[Younger Than They Look]] instead. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~}}▼ == Anime &and Manga ==▼ ~~----~~ * ''[[Astro Boy]]''. He's one of the [[Replacement Goldfish]] examples, but he also has combat abilities. ▼ * Arale from ''[[Dr. Slump]]''. ▼ ▲{{examples\|Examples:}} ▲== Anime & Manga == ▲* ''[[Astro Boy]]''. He's one of the [[Replacement Goldfish]] examples, but he also has combat abilities. ▲* Arale from ''[[Dr. Slump]]''. * Pino in ''[[Ergo Proxy]]''. * The main character of the short anime movie ''Hotori - Tada Saiwai o Koinegau'' is a little robot boy. == Comic Books == Line 24 ⟶ 19: ** Similar situation with Elsie Dee, created by Donald Pierce of the Hellfire Club to take out [[Wolverine]]. However, an assistant of Pierce's made her far more intelligent and sentient than Pierce intended, and she managed to get control of her systems and not blow up. * [[The Beano]] had one, back in the late 30s early 40s, named Tin Can Tommy who in later strips gained a robot brother. * Rusty of ''[[The Big Guy and Rusty ~~The Boy Robot (Comic Book)\|The Big Guy and Rusty The~~the Boy Robot]]''. == Film == * David from ''[[AIA.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]''. * Daryl from ''[[~~DARYL (Film)~~D.A.R.Y.L.\|DARYL]]''. == Literature == * ''[[Pinocchio]]'' is something of a fantasy variation in that he's a wooden puppet, not a robot, and was carved from a talking piece of wood (novel) or was enchanted to be sentient (Disney film) rather than having AI.▼ == Live -Action TV == * Vicki from ''[[Small Wonder]]''. * A villainous example occurs in ''[[Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan]]'', where Black Magma builds a robot version of a man's dead daughter. {{spoiler\|The robot eventually disobeys the villains because they'd programmed it to view the man as its father.}} Later, they do it again, this time replacing a living boy with a robot duplicate. == Video Games == * Botley in ''[[Jump Start Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain]]''. * Roll from ''[[Mega Man (~~Video~~video ~~Game~~game)\|Mega Man]]'' and Rock/Mega Man himself (who was originally a [[Captain Ersatz\|replacement]] made for an [[Astro Boy]] game that never happened). There's also Protoman/Blues, who combines it with [[Aloof Big Brother]]. * MOMO from ''[[~~Xenosaga (Video Game)\|~~Xenosaga]]'', though she's more of an [[Artificial Human]] than a robot. * {{spoiler\|The main character}} among others in ''[[~~Cave Story (Video Game)\|~~Cave Story]]''. == Web Comics == * Warbot in ''[[~~Warbot in Accounting (Webcomic)\|~~Warbot in Accounting]]'' once builds a small robot in an attempt to get a son. [[Hilarity Ensues]].▼ ~~== Webcomics ==~~ ▲* Warbot in ''[[Warbot in Accounting (Webcomic)\|Warbot in Accounting]]'' once builds a small robot in an attempt to get a son. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. * ''[[Wondermark]]'' has [http://wondermark.com/617/ S.A.M.I.R, the Helpful Clockwork Boy], and [http://wondermark.com/749/ Hubert], who becomes a "real boy". Though neither look particularly childlike, or human. == Western Animation == * Tinny Tim on ''[[~~Futurama (Animation)\|~~Futurama]]'' ** Also {{spoiler\|Bender's son}} in the DVD movie ''Beast With a Billion Backs''. * ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' has Brobot, created to be a younger brother rather than a son to his creator. * Jenny of ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'', though as the name would imply she's a teenager rather than a young child. She also has "siblings"~~--earlier~~—earlier prototypes made by her "mother"~~--that~~—that are based on younger kids, however. ** There is also the fact that while Jenny is designed to look like a teenager, she is chronologically 5 years ~~old -- a~~old—a fact that forced her to transfer to kindergarten in one episode. ▲* ''[[Pinocchio]]'' is something of a fantasy variation in that he's a wooden puppet, not a robot, and was enchanted to be sentient rather than having AI. * The titular character of the cartoon ''[[Robotboy]]'' ** There's also Robotgirl and Protoboy. * Wheelie, the young autobot they find fending for himself with a slingshot on Quintessa in ''[[Transformers: ~~the~~The Movie]]''. In subsequent episodes of the cartoon he would be paired with Daniel to make a Cute Kid And Robot pair. ** {{spoiler\|Sari Sumdac}} for the first two seasons of [[Transformers Animated]] is the {{spoiler\|[[Robot Girl]]}} variant. Its harder to tell because those seasons the 'bot in question is in its alt-mode, {{spoiler\|a human}}. * Robot Jones of ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]''. * ''[[Big Guy and Rusty ~~The~~the Boy Robot (~~Animation~~animation)\|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]''. Rusty was not built as a family robot, though, unless all family robots fire energy beams from their hands and can fly around. Rusty, originally meant to replace the outdated Big Guy (who is actually a [[Humongous Mecha]] with a pilot inside, despite what the public believes). However, Rusty's childish demeanor and inexperience relegate him to the post of a sidekick, while the Big Guy still takes care of the big problems. * Bobert in ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]''. == Real Life == * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCK64zsZNNs CB2]. * [http://www.robotcub.org/ Robot Cub], a robot 3-year-old designed to study cognition. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140606212702/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P-Jl6Hb5Vw Repliee R1], not to be confused with the Q1 which is a robot adult. {{reflist}} {{Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism}} [[Category:~~Robot Kid~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Youngsters]] [[Category:Robot Roll Call]] [[Category:Robot]] ▲[[Category:Robot Kid]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~