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* ''Franchise/{{Bionicle}}'' features Fire Drones in ''Legends of Metru Nui''.

* Harry Harrison's ''TheStainlessSteelRat's Revenge''. The Robotnik (robot hotel) has a luggage robot (with tentacles to grab bags) that sings a little song to every guest who arrives. It also has bellboy robots to show guests to their rooms.

** Arguably a subversion, as the primary function of any Peebo is a self-propelled ''bomb.'' Played straight with the computer storage Peebo Peecee, however, who demanded that his bomb be removed as soon as he was told about it.

* ''MobileSuitGundam'' has the titular Mobile Suits being the natural progression of space colony maintenance mecha, at least one of which - the Ball - shows up.
** A small robot called Haro is the franchise mascot. Depending on the adaptation, they're also given combat abilities, but are otherwise just there to be someone's teddy bear. Some iteneration (such as ''GundamAGE'') have Haros with built-in [=PCs=], meaning they're basically cute laptops with very simple built-in AIs.
* Birdy in ''GundamSEED'' was built for its own sake. It's functionally the same as Haro was in the original series.

* The ''StarWars'' books and comics greatly expanded on the already large amount of non-awesome, non-fighting, non-remarkable-in-any-way robots present in the series. Along with those in the films, they make a massive workforce of completely automated helpers with no fighting capacity whatsoever. Many don't even have a complex personality. [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Droid#Other_uses Here, take a look]].

* TSR's ''TabletopGame/TopSecret'' espionage RPG, ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #48 adventure "Dr. Yes: The Floating Island Mission". The enemy facility has small robots called "Bernies" that can act as vacuum cleaners (and trash compactors, because they compress the trash they pick up), They also mop and wax the floor as they pass over it.

* ''TabletopGame/DCHeroes''. A Clyde is a type of light-duty robot that is controlled by the equivalent of a home computer. It has automatic systems installed that allow it to act as an average housekeeper (sweeping, dusting, etc.). It has a voice synthesizer with the vocabulary of a twelve year old and the speaking ability of a six year old.

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* In ''OutlawStar'', the title ship is full of little canister-shaped robots that do repairs and minor labor, and which act as extensions of the ship's AI. The crew paints faces on them.
* In ''[[{{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.
* Ranka nearly trips over a street-cleaning one in the pilot of ''MacrossFrontier''.

** The little mouse robot in the hallway of the Death Star. Perhaps also the larger one seen in Palpatine's entrance.

** The window-replacing and -cleaning droids seen briefly in ''AttackOfTheClones''.

* They show up every so often in ''{{Doraemon}}''. Doraemon himself is one - a babysitter robot, to be exact - but is also so over-engineered that he can run off and have planet-saving adventures in the movies.

* Most of the robots on ''CubixRobotsForEveryone'' are of this type, although they are sentient.

* RayBradbury's short story "Literature/ThereWillComeSoftRains" was about the collapse of a house still being run by mini robots long after humanity had died.

* RayBradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" was about the collapse of a house still being run by mini robots long after humanity had died.

"Robot" once meant "worker" or "serf"[[note]]Derived from the Czech/Russian word "Robota," meaning "work." Pronounced, "Ro-BO-ta" (rather than "RO-bot-a").[[/note]]. In modern use, the term describes any mechanism or even a disembodied computer program capable of performing tasks autonomously with little to no human intervention. In science fiction, however, it's used for any person-like machine, even no longer serving a dedicated purpose such as in the event of a RobotUprising. So it can be a bit surprising when an otherwise futuristic robot's primary purpose is something mundane, like cleaning or assembling automobiles, even though that's exactly what they do in RealLife.

"Robot" once meant "worker" or "serf"[[note]]Derived from the Czech/Russian "Robota," meaning "work." Pronounced, "Ro-BO-ta" (rather than "RO-bot-a")[[/note]]. In modern use, the term describes any mechanism or even a disembodied computer program capable of performing tasks autonomously with little to no human intervention. In science fiction, however, it's used for any person-like machine, even no longer serving a dedicated purpose such as in the event of a RobotUprising. So it can be a bit surprising when an otherwise futuristic robot's primary purpose is something mundane, like cleaning or assembling automobiles, even though that's exactly what they do in RealLife.

"Robot" once meant "worker" or "serf"[[note]]Derived from the Czech/Russian "Robota" - work - pronounced, "Ro-BO-ta" (rather than "RO-bot-a")[[/note]]. In modern use, the term describes any mechanism or even a disembodied computer program capable of performing tasks autonomously with little to no human intervention. In science fiction, however, it's used for any person-like machine, even no longer serving a dedicated purpose such as in the event of a RobotUprising. So it can be a bit surprising when an otherwise futuristic robot's primary purpose is something mundane, like cleaning or assembling automobiles, even though that's exactly what they do in RealLife.

"Robot" once meant "worker" or "serf"[[note]]Derived from the Czech/Russian "Robota" - work[[/note]]. In modern use, the term describes any mechanism or even a disembodied computer program capable of performing tasks autonomously with little to no human intervention. In science fiction, however, it's used for any person-like machine, even no longer serving a dedicated purpose such as in the event of a RobotUprising. So it can be a bit surprising when an otherwise futuristic robot's primary purpose is something mundane, like cleaning or assembling automobiles, even though that's exactly what they do in RealLife.

* ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'': Adam Jensen has a roomba in his office. Earlier games have cleaning robots roaming around.

** A small robot called Haro is the franchise mascot. Depending on the adaptation, they're also given combat abilities, but are otherwise just there to be someone's teddy bear.

* The [=DRDs=] from ''Series/{{Farscape}}''.

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