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For most of the history of fiction dealing with robots, the mechanical beings have almost always been portrayed as humans or [[Robot Dog|animals]] made up of artificial parts, usually metal. In fact, the word "android" (literally "like a male human"), referring to artificial humans, predates the word "robot" by several decades, which goes to show that when people think of automatons, they tend to think of beings more or less akin to organic beings.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Most of the robots that Team Rocket from ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' assemble are either mechanical versions of specific Pokemon or just plain ridiculous designs.

* The robotic shells the Daleks use for transportation in ''[[Doctor Who]]''. They are salt-shaker shaped tanks with an eye-stalk, a gun tube, and a telescoping arm ending in either a plunger-like device or a claw. Appropriately enough, the Daleks themselves are [[Starfish Aliens]] (though they mutated from humanoids).

* The pilot movie for ''[[Lexx]]'' has a small dragonfly-like robot.