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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Professor in ''[[Nichijou]]'' is age eight and has built a perfectly functional, sentient robot she named Nano. Outside of this achievement however, she spends about 95% of her time on typical eight year old activities like coloring books.
* Rin-Rin in [[Sister Princess]] builds ''two'' robots - the first shows up in her introductory scene, and building the second drives her spotlight episode.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Iron Man]]'', Tony Stark is kidnapped while visiting Vietnam ([[Live Action Adaptation|Afghanistan in the film version]]) and ordered to help develop weapons for his captors. But instead of rigging a
* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Henry Pym]] and [[Fantastic Four|Reed Richards]], two [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist
* The [[Silver Age]] [[Superman]] could pump out a quick robot, no problem.
== [[Film]] ==
* Anakin Skywalker in ''[[
* In the TV movie ''[[High School USA]]'', the two nerds built their own robot that responded to voice commands.
* ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'': the Nerds have a robot they use as an occasional butler.
* [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[Flubber]]'' has two.
* Averted with ''[[Megamind]]'', who stops short at mere [[Mo Cap Mecha]] instead, and a [[Powered Armor]] for his assistant Minion (who depends on it, being a limbless talking fish.)
* Averted big time in ''[[Real Steel]]'', where practically anyone with just enough smarts can build robots from scrap.
* Dr. Morbius in ''[[Forbidden Planet]]''
* Both Hiro and Tadashi in ''[[Big Hero 6 (Disney film)|Big Hero 6]]''.
* Brittney Kornblum in ''[[Xtracurricular]]''.
* Tony Stark in ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' still works with a couple robots he built in his teens.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, and Howard, construct a robot named [[Fun with Acronyms|M.O.N.T.E.]] for the [[Overly Long Name|Southern California Robot Fighting League Round Robin Invitational]], though end up battling Barty Kripke's robot "the Krippler" in a street fight.
** Also [[Lampshade
* In the [[Nick Verse]] show ''[[Zoey 101]]'', Zoey and her friends construct a robot to battle against a group of [[Insufferable Genius|Insufferable Geniuses']] robots.
* On ''[[
* Screech in ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' had his own robot that just hung around his bedroom.
* ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place|Wizards Of Waverly Place's]]'' smart guy Justin Russo builds a working robot out of household items... so he could dance with it in a "big synchronized robot event".
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Doctor Steel]], building an army of giant robots to take over the world.
* More than a few characters in [[Fenspace]] can build robots even though they shouldn't know how.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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