History Main / EatingMachine

* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': WX-78 needs to eat just like the rest of the characters. However, it can digest rotten material, unlike other characters.

** In another strip Millefeuille (who is already drunk due to downloading a drunkenness simulator) drinks ouzo, and when asked where it goes says "We'll all find out together!"

* Explored in [[http://neilaglet.tumblr.com/post/166781937856/d3fic8r this comic]], where a scientist tells his eating robot to [[ToiletHumor poop on another scientist]] who thinks building an eating robots is ridiculous.

* Anime/{{Doraemon}} needs to eat to function like a human (as fuel) and his favorite food is dorayaki. Since he can taste, he's occasionally shown scarfing down or refusing food accordingly.

* Chachamaru in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' can eat and drink though she claims she has no sense of taste. Apparently it's to feel more human. Later, she can be seen licking an ice cream cone and is in the school's tea club. By the time of the ice cream event, she may actually be able to taste it considering the numerous upgrades.

* In ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, a proposed ship crewed by geth is designed to consume organic matter as fuel. [[spoiler:Specifically, dead Flood biomass which is burned down to carbon and subjected to fusion.]]

Not to be confused with a BigEater, which some people would refer to as 'an eating machine', although they may overlap.

Not to be confused with a BigEater, which some people would refer to as 'an eating machine'.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Bender (like all Earth-made robots) is designed to run off booze. They act drunk when they ''don't'' have alcohol. Robots also consume prepared fuel as "robot food." While they can and do eat human food, it presumably doesn't do anything for them (and Bender, at least, has no sense of taste, [[LethalChef despite his passion for cooking]]).

* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'', The space pirate robots regularly drink grog a form of alcohol which they are very fond of. It even makes them drunk especially Captain Slag and Rusty Pete.

* Franchise/{{Transformers}} in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' in Beast mode are able to eat things that would be edible to terrestrial animals, rather than typical Transformer "food" like oil. Perhaps most notoriously, Rhinox eats some wild bean vines and [[{{Fartillery}} develops literally explosive flatulence]]. Tarantulas is known to prey on local animals, and once even attempted to eat ''[[SapientEatSapient Cheetor]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has a few examples of Franchise/{{Transformers}} eating things that would be edible to terrestrial animals, rather than typical Transformer "food" like oil. Perhaps most notoriously, Rhinox eats some wild bean vines and [[{{Fartillery}} develops literally explosive flatulence]]. Tarantulas is known to prey on local animals, and once even attempted to eat ''Cheetor''.

* Subverted by BMO in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', who keeps ''trying'' to eat, but the food either just get mushed into its [[TVHeadRobot screen face]] or is put inside and has to be cleaned out. The same for the [=SMOs=] security guards in "Be More", who all take breaks to smear coffee and donuts all over their faces.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Bender (like all Earth-made robots) is designed to run off booze. They act drunk when they ''don't'' have alcohol.
** Robots also consume prepared fuel as "robot food." While they can and do eat human food, it presumably doesn't do anything for them (and Bender, at least, has no sense of taste, [[LethalChef despite his passion for cooking]]).

* Subverted by BMO in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', who keeps ''trying'' to eat, but the food either just get mushed into his [[TVHeadRobot screen face]] or is put inside and has to be cleaned out. The same for the [=SMOs=] security guards in "Be More", who all take breaks to smear coffee and donuts all over their faces.

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* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankToolsOfDestruction: The space pirate robots regularly drink grog a form of alcohol which they are very fond of. It even makes them drunk especially Captain Slag and Rusty Pete.

* Justified in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' with special food for full-body prosthetic cyborgs like The Major or heavily cyberized people like Bato. It does't taste that good to regular people like Togusa.

* In ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''MassEffect''[=/=]''StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, a proposed ship crewed by geth is designed to consume organic matter as fuel. [[spoiler:Specifically, dead Flood biomass which is burned down to carbon and subjected to fusion.]]

* Explored in [[http://neilaglet.tumblr.com/post/166781937856/d3fic8r this comic]].

** Robots also consume prepared fuel as "robot food." While they can and do eat human food, it presumably doesn't do anything for them (and Bender, at least, has no sense of taste, [[LethalChef despite his love of cooking]]).

** Robots also consume prepared fuel as "robot food." While they can and do eat human food, it presumably doesn't do anything for them (and Bender, at least, has no sense of taste, [[LethalChef despite his love of cooking]].)