History Main / FunnyRobot

* Nono, the robotic SidekickCreatureNuisance from ''Anime/{{Ulysses 31}}''.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''
** Orbital 7, Kaito's RobotBuddy in doesn't ''intend'' to be funny, but he often winds up the comic relief anyway, becoming a ButtMonkey more often than not. (For example, when he switches to "combat mode", he's a clumsy fighter, getting the drills he uses as weapons jammed and winding up in embarrassing situations more often than not.)
** The Obots are CuteMachines designed to pick up garbage, and are used for comic relief, until the season one finale where [[TheDragon Mr. Hartland]] uses them as MechaMooks.

* Johnny 5 of the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' [[Film/ShortCircuit2 films]] is a [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunctioning A.I.]] who reprograms himself in large part by watching late-night television.

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* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', one of the amenities in the player's house in Megaton or Tenpenny Tower is a robot butler. In addition to various functions useful to the player, he tells jokes when requested.
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Muggy, the neurotic, mug-obsessed mini-securitron of Big Mountain. He's programmed to be obsessed, and he knows fully well that he is, and why (his whole existence is basically a pointless TakeThat against Mr House, who doesn't know and wouldn't care anyway), and he can't do anything about it. He's very miserable about it.

** In [[VideoGame/PortalTwo the second game]], Wheatley is like this. [[spoiler:Sure, he's trying to kill Chell, but his attempts are so ''dumb'' that he's LaughablyEvil and outright hilarious. (It helps that he's voiced by British comedian Stephen Merchant.)]]
* Beep-0 from ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' may be a robot assistant, but his dialogue and personality make it clear he acts like a human being. He's a very funny character in so many ways.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': The Steam Gardeners, who talk about flowers and silly stuff in RoboSpeak, are these.

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* Johnny 5 of the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' films is a [[AIIsACrapshoot malfunctioning A.I.]] who reprograms himself in large part by watching late-night television.
* [=R2D2=] and [=C3PO=] from ''Franchise/StarWars'' are likely to be Trope Codifiers. [=C3PO=] is somewhat more funny than R2, but they both have a lot of comic relief moments.

* '''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': The Steam Gardeners, who talk about flowers and silly stuff in RoboSpeak, are these.

Often overlaps with RobotBuddy, SiliconSnarker, and RobotClown, and can be a subtrope to AmusingAlien. Rarely has anything to do with ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', although the show ''is'' funny and often involves robots.

* Beep-0 from ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' may be a robot assistant, but his dialouge and personality makes it clear [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots he acts like a human being.]] He's a very funny character in so many ways.

* Beep-0 from ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' may be a robot assistant, but his dialouge and personality makes it clear he acts like a human being. He's a very funny character in so many ways.

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[[folder:Anime]]
* R Ichirou Tanaka from the manga and OVA ''Kyuukyoku Choujin R''. He is a robot (or rather, an android) fifteen-year old boy [[RobotBuddy attending a high school alongside human teens]]. He [[TrademarkFavoriteFood only eats rice]], is rather LiteralMinded, and tends to [[ExorcistHead turn his head around 180 degrees]], take off his body parts or get off his bicycle without stopping it first. His backstory is a homage to ''Manga/AstroBoy''.

* [[ComicBook/MachineMan Aaron Stack the Machine Man]] was not this originally, but he has become much more grouchy and neurotic over time, to the point that any story featuring him now will have a significant element of humor.
* The ComicBook/MetalMen have always been humorous characters, most of them even designed to look like very toony humans, made of metal.

* More like a "Funny AI System" than a Funny Robot, but ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'s frequent nemesis is his talking bathroom scale, a DeadpanSnarker who constantly makes fun of his weight.

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' has two examples. There is Marvin, the robot who is programmed to constantly sound sad (voiced by Alan Rickman, RIP) and the ship's navigation bot which is constantly cheerful. The funny part comes in because the robots keep their characteristic sound even when the words they are saying make no sense that way. This isn't just about intonation either, the ship's navigator constantly says things like "good news everyone, the missile is headed for us in 10, 9, 8.." Marvin meanwhile says things like "oh no, look at this beautiful sunset". The interactions between the two robots are even more silly for this reason.

* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Robo is a robot in a comedy series, its a given.

* The ''Galaxy One'' prison ship in ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' is full of Funny Robots to support its sole human prisoner, from "Insanity Avoidance Companion" [[RobotBuddy KVN]] to the "S.A.M.E.S." ([[FunWithAcronyms Synthetic Artificial Masses Erecting Safeness]]) who serve as crew to H.U.E., the onboard [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]] [[spoiler:(who as of Season 2 has been downloaded into a robot body).]]
* Any Cybertronian comic relief characters in the various Franchise/{{Transformers}} shows, such as ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' Wreck-Gar or [[WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015 RID '15]] Fixit.
* Chopper from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' enjoys pulling pranks on the rest of the ''Ghost'' crew.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': {{Invoked}} with "Funnybot", a robot designed by the Germans to prove that they are funny. Of course, much of its humor comes from the fact that everyone finds its middling to poor jokes (punctuated by the punchline of "Awkward!") to be the funniest thing in the world. It ends up trying to destroy the world as it believes that it would be the ultimate joke.

* [[RobotBuddy Alpha 5]] from the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' (and later ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'') was more often than not comic relief for the team. ([[CatchPhrase "Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!"]])

* Skids and Mudflap from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' are two bumbling jiving-talking robots. They're characterized by their cowardice and stupidity in contrast to the other heroic Autobots. Their faces in robot mode look like early 20th century portrayal of African-Americans -- buck teeth, bulging eyes, and large ears. One of them has a gold tooth. They bust out ghetto slang constantly, and even threaten to "pop a cap" in someone's ass.

* XR from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' was created to be a serious space ranger. However, his HiveMind creators being mentally separated during his first reconstruction resulted in him becoming a PG-rated version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender]]. He's conniving, cowardly, and constantly hitting on girls, both organic and mechanical. Nonetheless, he's still a hero when the [[StealthPun chips]] are down.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', listing the robots ''without'' comedic traits would be easier, [[FantasticComedy given the nature of the show]]. Still, Bender probably has the most humor potential, being part of the main cast, and [[Characters/{{Futurama}} his entry on the show's character sheet gives numerous reasons why]].

* B.E.N. from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is a bit scatterbrained from being marooned on a desert island. He constantly yelling at random moments which gets his friends in trouble in a few cases.

* XR from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' was created to be a serious space ranger. However, his HiveMind creators being mentally separated during his first reconstruction resulted in him becoming a PG-rated version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender.]] He's conniving, cowardly, and constantly hitting on girls, both organic and mechanical. Nonetheless, he's still a hero when the chips are down.

* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' winds up turning a HumongousMecha into one after the Arbalest's system AI (designated AL) begins developing sentience. Concluding that Sousuke would be able to more reliably activate the finicky Lambda Driver if he could just chill the hell out, AL starts engaging in CasualDangerDialogue and {{Deadpan Snark|er}} during lulls in battle. Sousuke thinks this is both [[StopHelpingMe nonsensical and annoying]], but his marked improvement with using the Lambda Driver following this development suggests AL has a point.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' winds up turning a HumongousMecha into one after the Arbalest's system AI (designated AL) begins developing sentience. Concluding that Sousuke would be able to more reliably activate the finicky Lambda Driver if he could just chill the hell out, AL starts engaging in CasualDangerDialogue and {{Deadpan Snark|er}} during lulls in battle. Sousuke thinks this is both [[StopHelpingMe nonsensical and annoying]], but his marked improvement with using the Lambda Driver following this development suggests AL has a point.

* General Tik-Tok from the ''[[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]]'' books, a helpful [[ClockworkCreature a clockwork man]] and RobotBuddy to the other characters. Usually he's very serious, but he can be ''very'' funny when his brain winds down before his voice and movements do; without any actual thinking to govern it, he wanders aimlessly and blabbers nonsensically until someone winds up his thought mechanism.

-->'''Gadget:''' Gadget Gadget.\\

* [[ComicBook The Metal Men]] have always been humorous characters, most of them even designed to look like very toony humans, made of metal.

* ''Film/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' has two examples. There is Marvin, the robot who is programmed to constantly sound sad (voiced by Alan Rickman, RIP) and the ship's navigation bot which is constantly cheerful. The funny part comes in because the robots keep their characteristic sound even when the words they are saying make no sense that way. This isn't just about intonation either, the ship's navigator constantly says things like "good news everyone, the missile is headed for us in 10, 9, 8.." Marvin meanwhile says things like "oh no, look at this beautiful sunset". The interactions between the two robots are even more silly for this reason.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Fallout3}} Fallout 3]]'', one of the amenities in the player's house in Megaton or Tenpenny Tower is a robot butler. In addition to various functions useful to the player, he tells jokes when requested.

* Eric and Deborah from WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines are funny as a result of them trying to act like humans, and doing a poor job of it, as well as their childlike behaviour.

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** They never appeared in the anime, but the Wind-Ups while not Machines (most of them) were an archetype of monsters that you couldn't help but find humor potential in. (Unless you were a victim of [[TierInducedScrappy the Wind-Up Loop]] which fortunately, can no longer be done.)

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* Lopez from ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' acts as a comic relief as the OnlySaneMan. This is further pushed by the fact that he can [[LanguageBarrier only speak Spanish]].

Often overlaps with RobotBuddy and RobotClown, and can be a subtrope to AmusingAlien. Rarely has anything to do with ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', although the show ''is'' funny and often involves robots.