History Main / DeceptivelyHumanRobots

* Data on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. One ExpandedUniverse novel (''Ghostship'') even noted this in a semi-mocking tone, in that it made no sense to design an android to blend in with human society, to give it human characteristics such as blinking, drinking, breathing... and then give it chrome-colored skin.

* Dorothy from Anime/TheBigO is one, for she often speaks in a flat monotone and never changes her facial expressions no matter what's going on. There's also the fact that she's insanely heavy.
* In the ''TimeOfEve'' the robots ''appear'' to belong to this category with their human appearance contrasted by their UncannyValley movements and MachineMonotone speech, but it appears that they actually do this for the humans' convenience. When they are free of restraints in the titular café that allows no discrimination between humans and robots they become RidiculouslyHumanRobots good enough to fool each other!

* Arguably, the titular ''{{Livewires}}'' from MarvelComics. They seem like Ridiculously Human Robots (and are anatomically correct, even), but because of procedures they performed on themselves, they totally lack fear and doubt, distancing them from any semblance of humanity by an incalculable magnitude.
* There are also the X model androids, again from MarvelComics-- or at least {{Nextwave}}'s very special corner thereof. They look human enough, but earlier models, like "Father Blood Drench Robo Crush" often spout threats like, "I MAKE YOU DIE WITH STEAMY ELECTRIC MEK BITS NOW KLAK KLAK KLAK!"

* Pick a [[TheTerminator Terminator]], any Terminator.

* R. Daneel Olivaw in IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'' and ''Literature/TheNakedSun''. Dr. Sarton spent many years overcoming the UncannyValley, and as a result Daneel can shake hands like a real human and even eat, but he is still identifiable as a robot even from visual clues. He breathes at irregular intervals sometimes several minutes apart, he eats in identical mechanical motions and his body is unable to "naturally" remove food waste, isntead requiring him to literally empty the food sack in his abdomen. However, because humans do not ''expect'' a robot to look human, he is passable to anybody except for robotic experts.

* DeceptivelyHumanRobots: In the original book by Gaston Leroux, Erik (the titular phantom)''"also invented those automata, dressed like the Sultan and resembling the Sultan in all respects, which made people believe that the Commander of the Faithful was awake at one place, when, in reality, he was asleep elsewhere."'' for Mehemet Alí Bey.

* Data on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. One ExpandedUniverse novel (''Ghostship'') even noted this in a semi-mocking tone, in that it made no sense to design an android to blend in with human society, to give it human characteristics such as blinking, drinking, breathing... and then give it chrome-colored skin.
** Apparently it was done so that he could blend in with humans, without [[UncannyValley scaring the living daylights]] out of everyone who worked out what he really ''was''. It's fairly obvious looking at him that he ain't human and - hey, people in the trekiverse are used to that.

* The Chameleonbot in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' looks like Kimiko, but uses outdated slang and occasionally says, "Processing..."

* Robot from ''{{Invincible}}'' subverts this, at first appearing to be a socially maladjusted (and obviously mechanical) robot who honestly can't (and honestly doesn't want to) relate to his teammates' problems. Then it's revealed that [[spoiler:He's actually a human who acts incredibly like a robot. Sort of.]]

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* The Hardac trilogy of episodes in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' featured an [[AIIsACrapshoot AI named Hardac]] who planned to conquer the world with DeceptivelyHumanRobots. The first two parts played this straight, but the third one "His Silicon Soul" subverted it. The Batman robot started out as a DeceptivelyHumanRobot but became a RidiculouslyHumanRobot over the course of the episode. So human in fact that it sacrificed itself to prevent the scheme it had set in motion from hurting people.

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* This is why Nagato from ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' is often considered a RobotGirl, despite being realistic enough to bleed.

* Dorothy from TheBigO is one, for she often speaks in a flat monotone and never changes her facial expressions no matter what's going on. There's also the fact that she's insanely heavy.

* In MahouSenseiNegima, Evangeline has a bunch of maids that are DeceptivelyHumanRobots. Chachamaru is more of a traditional {{Magitek}} RobotGirl, who even went so far as to [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove discover love]].
** Much to the chagrin of one of her inventors, who was outright ''offended'' by the prospect of being forced into philosophy by the matter.

** And April. In deliberate contrast to Ted, everyone who saw her figured out she was a robot in ten seconds.

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* The Chameleonbot in ''XiaolinShowdown'' looks like Kimiko, but uses outdated slang and occasionally says, "Processing..."

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* R. Daneel Olivaw in IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'' and ''Literature/TheNakedSun''. Dr. Sarton spent many years overcoming the UncannyValley, and as a result, he can shake hands like a real human. However, when he "eats", he actually stores the food in a plastic bag that is later discarded.
** Experts can instantly tell he's a robot, but normal people can't. Partially because they don't believe it's possible. [[spoiler:After many thousands of years, however, he ''does'' become a ridiculously human robot who just has a reputation for being rather cold.]]

** Also Ted, the evil robot who tried to romance Buffy's mother. He qualified for [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculously Human]] until Buffy kicked him down the stairs, at which point he ran into hardware trouble.

* R. Daneel Olivaw in IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'' and ''TheNakedSun''. Dr. Sarton spent many years overcoming the UncannyValley, and as a result, he can shake hands like a real human. However, when he "eats", he actually stores the food in a plastic bag that is later discarded.

* There are also the X model androids, again from MarvelComics. They look human enough, but earlier models, like "Father Blood Drench Robo Crush" often spout threats like, "I MAKE YOU DIE WITH STEAMY ELECTRIC MEK BITS NOW KLAK KLAK KLAK!"

* D from ''Dual'' speaks in a dull monotone and avoids contractions.

* There are also the other X model androids, also from MarvelComics. They look human enough, but earlier models, like "Father Blood Drench Robo Crush" often spout threats like, "I MAKE YOU DIE WITH STEAMY ELECTRIC MEK BITS NOW KLAK KLAK KLAK!"

* Robot from ''Invincible'' subverts this, at first appearing to be a socially maladjusted (and obviously mechanical) robot who honestly can't (and honestly doesn't want to) relate to his teammates' problems. Then it's revealed that [[spoiler:He's actually a human who acts incredibly like a robot. Sort of.]]

* R. Daneel Olivaw in IsaacAsimov's ''The Caves of Steel'' and ''The Naked Sun''. Dr. Sarton spent many years overcoming the UncannyValley, and as a result, he can shake hands like a real human. However, when he "eats", he actually stores the food in a plastic bag that is later discarded.

* Dorothy from {{Big O}} is one, for she often speaks in a flat monotone and never changes her facial expressions no matter what's going on. There's also the fact that she's insanely heavy.

**** Same reason we do. To remove dust and other interfering particulate matter from his photoreceptors

** So they're basically vampires?

* {{Snatcher}}s do look and often act like the humans they're placing, this form is very delicate. Their artificial skin gets cancer with any sun exposure (and leaving a tell-tale smell), and at apparently the skin isn't that durable since at least one is shown with pieces of it missing from a fight earlier. So really, any person that's suddenly avoiding sunlight looks pretty suspicious. Also: [[EvilDetectingDog Animals hate them]]

* Dorothy from {{Big O}} is one, for she often speaks in a flat monotone and never changes her facial expressions no matter what's going on. There's also the fact that she's insanely heavy.