History Main / InTheFutureWeStillHaveRoombas

* In ''[[Anime/{{Patlabor}} Mobile Police Patlabor,]]'' Labors are piloted mecha used mainly for construction work, originally necessitated by the needs of the massive Babylon Project and then found to be useful in more mundane ways. Unfortunately, this includes destructive criminal purposes, so the police had to request their own fighting version.

* Helper from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1122 SCP-1122 ("The House of Tomorrow")]]. The House has small robots that perform routine maintenance and cleaning.

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* In ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'', [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/succoom.htm Succoom]] the living Vaccum cleaner is a {{Mon}} version of this trope.
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* In ''{{WebOriginal/Mortasheen}}'', [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/succoom.htm Succoom]] the living Vaccum cleaner is a {{Mons}} version of this trope.

-->-- '''Bender''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[Recap/FuturamaS1E5FearOfABotPlanet "Fear of a Bot Planet"]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' has the trash-can shaped maintenance robots that are everywhere around Academy City. They are usually seen cleaning up trash, fixing minor mechanical problems, or getting humorously interfered with by [[ShockAndAwe Misaka]].

->''And what a surprise! Look who's scraping up the filth! Is it a ''human'' child? I wish!''

** Amy has a sentient alarm clock robot. She once hooked up with Bender.

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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1122 SCP-1122 ("The House of Tomorrow")]]. The House has small robots that perform routine maintenance and cleaning.

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* Robyn "[[GadgeteerGenius Toy Box]]" Slinger uses these in ''ComicBook/TopTen'' to [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]].

* ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'' has MOUSE, the little robotic avatar of the ship's A.I.. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the notes on]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/03/29/i-hate-the-living/ this page,]] it seems to do little more than serve as a mobile communicator, a function that's [[IsThisThingOn not always]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2011/04/10/perfect-disaster/ desirable...]]

This kind of robot can help to set the work on the hard end of the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. It's likely to be found in MundaneDogmatic stories.

This kind of robot can help to set the work on the hard end of the MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. It's likely to be found in MundaneDogmatic stories.

* In the InteractiveFiction version of ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', two cleaner robots on the Vogon ship make it [[RubeGoldbergDevice rather more difficult]] than [[GuideDangIt it probably should be]] to get a Babelfish out of the vending machine.

* In ''[[Literature/CiaphasCain The Emperor's Finest]]'' we discover that in the Grimdarkness of the Far Future Space Marines use recon rumbas.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''

* [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] uses little flying robots called "[=HERBIEs=]" as his assistants and gofers. These are a CanonImmigrant from the 1970's F.F. cartoon series.

* In [[Literature/CiaphasCain The Emperor's Finest]] we discover that in the Grimdarkness of the Far Future Space Marines use recon rumbas.

* The ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' universe is chock-full of RidiculouslyHumanRobots, and there are still simple, apparently non-sentient cleaner bots and guard bots.

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* In [[{{Literature/Voidskipper}} Voidskipper]] people make use of a wide variety of simple non-intelligent robots to perform menial labor and industrial tasks that people find stressful, repetitive and boring. These robots are often called "drones".