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* HAL (Heuristically programmed [=ALgorithmic=] computer) from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' - It's technically HAL 9000, suggesting it is part of a series, but no others are ever mentioned[[note]]Other HALs ''are'' mentioned, but they are ''also'' the 9000 model[[/note]. It has been speculated that HAL was named in reference to IBM, as when "IBM" is encrypted in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher Caesar cipher]] with a left shift of 1, it becomes "HAL", but the filmmakers denied this.

* HAL (Heuristically programmed [=ALgorithmic=] computer) from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' - It's technically HAL 9000, suggesting it is part of a series, but no others are ever mentioned. It has been speculated that HAL was named in reference to IBM, as when "IBM" is encrypted in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher Caesar cipher]] with a left shift of 1, it becomes "HAL", but the filmmakers denied this.

* ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' has a T-RIP, a '''T'''erminator '''R'''esistance '''I'''nfiltrator '''P'''rototype.

* In ''Film/{{M3gan}}'', the name of the eponymous android means "Model Three Generative Android".

* The titular artificial woman from the film ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'' is, in fact, Sim(ulation) One.

* Another early computer, designed by Alan Turing (and described in his 1946 [[https://turingarchive.kings.cam.ac.uk/amt-b-25 proposal]]) was the '''A'''utomated '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine. A pilot version eventually went live in 1950, and in 1952 a version was put to work with a name that allegedly expanded to '''D'''igital '''E'''lectronic '''U'''niversal '''C'''omputing '''E'''ngine.

* In ''Film/{{Wargames}}'', the supercomputer put in charge of NORAD's missiles is called the War Operation Plan Response, or WOPR. Though its AI component is called [[spoiler: "Joshua", after its programmer's dead son.]]

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyGalaxy'': One villain is a robotic power sphera hunter named A.B.A.M. ('''A'''ccurate '''B'''allistic '''A'''rrow '''M'''ercenary), otherwise known [[DubNameChange in the english dub]] as B.R.R.O. ('''B'''allistic '''R'''obot '''R'''anged '''O'''ffense). He wields a bow-and-arrow which he shoots with terrifying accuracy.

* ''Literature/GalaxyZack'': The new house the Nelson family moves into is a SmartHouse run by an A.I. named I.R.A., which stands for '''I'''ntelligent ''R'''obotic '''A'''ssistant.

* Franchise/{{DCAU}} examples:

* The ''Film/IronMan'' movies turn Tony Stark's butler Jarvis into a computer/onboard AI named J.A.R.V.I.S. The novelization reveals that it's "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System".

* ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' featured a computer named "AIVAS" (Artificial Intelligence Voice-Address System) - capable of communicating with its users via a BadassBaritone voice module.

* ''WesternAnimation/BOTAndTheBeasties'' has a titular robot called B.O.T. who stands for '''B'''eastie '''O'''bservation '''T'''ransmitter.
* NEPTR, the '''N'''ever-'''E'''nding '''P'''ie-'''T'''hrowing '''R'''obot from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/BOTAndTheBeasties'' has a titular robot called B.O.T who stands for '''B'''eastie '''O'''bservation '''T'''ransmitter.

* [=GLaDOS=] of ''Videogame/{{Portal}}'' is an acronym for 'Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operation System', hinting at her purpose as Aperture Science's MasterComputer in charge of testing and running the facility of Aperture Science [[spoiler:and that her core is based on a human's consciousness]].

* ''WebComic/ValAndIsaac'' features Doris, model name [=DOR15=], which stands for "'''D'''etective '''O'''r '''R'''etail Mk. '''15'''" (she's shown working retail as a day job, but easily switches to detective mode when [[spoiler: everyone but Val is kidnapped]]. Lampshaded when another [=DOR15=] accuses her of having changed her identity because it's such an unoriginal name.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' features M.O.N.Q.I. robots. "Mobile Optimal Neural Quotient Infiltrators". Nobody is impressed by this tropes usage...

%% * ''VideoGame/TooHuman'': Multiple:

* N.I.G.E.L. from ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' is the RobotBuddy built by [[FiveManBand HEAT]] - his name is short for '''N'''ext-millennium '''I'''ntelligence '''G'''athering '''E'''lectronic '''L'''iaison.

* The ''E.A.T.R.'' stands for ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energetically_Autonomous_Tactical_Robot Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot]]'' and it actually [[EatingRobot does eat]]. Fortumately it's herbivorous, so it's just foraging for plants it could convert into biomass fuel for itself.

->'''The Doctor:''' What are you then?
->'''BOSS:''' I am the first Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor.
->'''The Doctor:''' B, O, double S. The BOSS.
->'''BOSS:''' Precisely.
->'''The Doctor:''' Ha!
->'''BOSS:''' My designers also found it amusing. I find it suitable.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Green Death"

* In ''Series/TimeTrax'', Darien Lambert's computer, one of whose main functions is to provide an easily accessible full storage of all written records since Gutenberg, is called S.E.L.M.A. ('''S'''pecified '''E'''ncapsulated '''L'''imitless '''M'''emory '''A'''rchive)

* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', O.R.C.A., the artificial intelligence overseeing Alterna, [[spoiler:humanity's last refuge before their final extinction]], stands for "Omniscient Recording Computer of Alterna".

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': RATH's goal in the ''Project Alicization'' arc is to produce an ALICE ('''A'''rtificial '''L'''abile '''I'''ntelligent '''C'''ybernated '''E'''xistence) - an [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Fluctlight]] created entirely from scratch, making it immune to the NeverTheSelvesShallMeet issues that plague [[VirtualGhost copies of existing minds]]. To do so they create a quasi-European [[LotusEaterMachine virtual world]] inhabited by proto-[=ALICEs=], grant them the ability to breed with each other, and run it through hundreds of years of simulated time until they detect that a true ALICE has emerged. To their shock, the first one they find is a girl named ''[[PropheticName Alice]]'' Zuberg.