List of fictional robots and androids

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List of robots in literature and films:

First appeared on stage:

The word "robot" comes from Karel Capek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) [written 1920; first performed 1921; performed in New York 1922; English edition published 1923]. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. 1

First appeared in print:

Robots by Isaac Asimov:
- Robbie, Speedy, Cutie, Stephen Byerly (or is he?) and others, from the stories in I, Robot
- R. Daneel Olivaw, from The Caves of Steel and subsequent novels
- Andrew Martin, from "The Bicentennial Man" (later made into a film)
Adam Link of "I, Robot" by Eando Binder (predates the Asimov book of the same title)
Klaatu of "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates (later adapted to film as The Day the Earth Stood Still)
Helen O'Loy, from the story of the same title by Lester del Rey (1938)
The Humanoids, from a series by Jack Williamson

First appeared in film:

Maria -- Metropolis
C-3PO -- Star Wars
R2-D2 -- Star Wars
Replicants -- Blade Runner (based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Fully organic beings, but artificially created.)
Robby -- Forbidden Planet

First appeared on television: (might realy be stretching 'literature', but here...)

Cylons -- Battlestar Galactica (according to the novelizations, Cylons were simply humanoid aliens wearing mechanical armor. Don't know if this was true in the TV show, but this is the literature page...)(see /Talk)

Doctor Who -- K-9, the Movellans, the Cybermen. (The Daleks were travel machines for little blobby organic aliens, not robots or even cyborgs)