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** Mechanon probably counts: as a robot, he used automated factories to make improved versions of himself.
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** While true AI are prohibited in the Imperium after [[Robot War|they turned out to be a bad idea]], there are lots of [[Wetware CPU|Servitors]] combining electronics and various amounts of neural tissue from humans (casualties salvaged mostly brain-dead, lobotomized convicts or vat-grown to specifications) or common animals, on various stages of cybernetic augmentation from "some visible implants" to "there are tiny fleshy parts deep inside". Tech-priests control Servitors and cyber-[[familiar]]s, especially floating servo skulls, [[Brain-Computer Interface|more directly]] than normal people.
*** There's also Legio Cybernetica, herding Imperial robots (they also use organic components, but minimized even beyond the skulls' level).
*** ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' supplement ''Book of Judgement'' has "Cyber-Mastiff Handler" character option for Tech-Priests working with [[Robot Dog|Cyber-mastiff]]s for law enforcement. There's even a special interface implant for this purpose - Constructer Interface, allowing to remotely oversee multiple common cyber-constructs and upload programs optimizing their performance on the fly (literally, in case of [[Robot Bird|grapplehawks]]).
*** ''[[Rogue Trader]]'' has the Stryxis, who also command their "vat brutes" in a similar manner. They even sell implanted controllers to the others - there's a character option (Colchite Servo-Master
*** In ''[[Only War]]'', Tech-Priests (normally) receive only Servitors as comrades
* In ''[[Stars Without Number]]'' humans occasionally work as "bot wranglers", commanding non-sentient expert systems; there's even an implant (Drone Control Link) which allows watching and "keeping in touch" with a few (depending on the skill) drones or other robots, commanding up to two, and telepresence perception via any of them at will.
** AI who have resources may command thousands of robotic armatures. [[Religious Robot|Imago Dei]] AI due to being unwilling to risk human allies (if any) needlessly while spread very thin, routinely do things like managing an entire shipyard facility with all the robots and vehicles solo, or personally controlling starship, a few thousands of its robotic crew, plus a few hundreds of remote small craft and realistically acting human-like bodies it shuttled to the surface to take a closer look at something suspicious.
== Video Games ==
* Dr. Wily and Dr. Light from the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' games, whose main robots are coincidentally known as Robot Masters.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'''s diabolical Doctor Robotnik, whose portfolio includes trying to turn everyone in the world into a robot.
* Lord Agony from ''[[
* In ''[[Professor Layton and the Curious Village]]", we have Bruno, {{spoiler|who built ALL of the inhabitants of St. Mystere with the exception of the late Baron Reinhold's daughter, Flora}}
* Purge from ''[[Space Channel 5]] Part 2'' makes hundreds of robots to face off against Ulala. Apparently he's so talented, he mass-produced the Peace Carrier 8 times in under a day.
* Robotics Masterminds in ''[[City of Heroes|City of Heroes/Villains]]'' are playable robot masters.
* In ''[[Freedroid RPG]]'', the player character, since overtaking bots is a major component of gameplay. Fighting them all physically is tough and expensive (requires ammunition and equipment repair), malware attacks are too limited to be the only weapon, but a swarm of controlled low-level bots can guard your flanks, absorb attacks and soften up the higher-level enemies you cannot take over yet. They are easily replenished, too. It would be too easy, but common types are rather slow, and there are places where they simply cannot follow.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Girl Genius]]''
* Agatha Heterodyne of ''[[Girl Genius]]''. In that more than once she was surrounded with a swarm of small metal things either scuttling and flying around as her assistants or repairing everything else and using loose spare parts to build more. The unusual part is that she have built in her sleep just one "dingbot Prime" the size of a pocket watch (later another when she lost the first), and those turned out to be caable of creative thinking and [[Recursive Creators|making lesser versions of themselves]]. Later she converted two thinking engines built long ago by her relatives into similar [[chibi]] forms (except those weren't tinkerers, but could talk and had some useful peripherals).▼
** Dr. Beetle evidently once was great at this. His soldier clanks used to be the best (according to Klaus), and he have read lectures touching on matters like [[Body Surf|mind transfer]] between organic and artificial bodies back when Lucrezia was a student. He moved onto other pursuits, however.
▲** Agatha Heterodyne
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'' the [[Troll]] Equius Zahhak is quite skilled at building robots and cybernetic limbs. He does this so that he can blow off steam by fighting killer robots.
* Rika, a British example from ''[[RPG World]]''
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** That said, Gyro often goes ahead and makes robots anyway for one reason or another, with [[Hilarity Ensues|predictable results]]. This may be a moot point anyway, as at least once he attempted to get around this by building [[Giant Mecha|piloted robots]] to get around the restriction, and rather than causing mayhem on it's own, the Beagle Boys simply stole them and caused mayhem anyway.
*** But when your greatest invention is [[Powered Armor|Gizmoduck]], erstwhile protector of Duckburg and oft times ally of [[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]], you get some cred.
* One of the villains in ''[[The Mystery of the Third Planet]]'' used to bring along at least a squad of androids. Unfortunately for him, these minions were hilariously stupid.
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