History Main / RobotBuddy

* In ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', we have Metal Gear Mk. II (named and modeled after the eponymous mecha ''VideoGame/MetalGear''), Gillian's walking Forensics Lab, and Robot Buddy. Unlike most examples of the trope, although loyal to Gillian, Metal does not hesitate to [[WhatTheHellHero call Gillian]] [[MoralityPet out on some of his questionable behavior]], and [[DeadpanSnarker insult him semi-regularly]]. This little robot buddy was {{transplant}}ed into ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''.

** Bladewolf from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRising'' is another example, though he ends up bickering with Raiden for most of the game.

* ''WebAnimation/{{ItsMeImAlex}}'': Rty Intelligentz, Alex's cohost, bodyguard, and butler.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the Mr. Handy, and its combat version, Mr. Gutsy, is a customizable line of robot buddies. In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the Lone Wanderer can recruit a Mr. Gutsy named Sergeant RL-3.

%%* H.E.L.P.eR from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' certainly qualifies complete with a dash of TheUnintelligible and both TheChewToy and TheWoobie.

* In ''podcasts/TheRadioAdventuresOfDrFloyd'': One of the main characters is Dr. Floyd and Dr. Grant's faithful robot companion, C.H.I.P.S., a fully sentient robot.

* In ''podcast/TheRadioAdventuresOfDrFloyd'': One of the main characters is Dr. Floyd and Dr. Grant's faithful robot companion, C.H.I.P.S., a fully sentient robot.

* ''podcast/TheRadioAdventuresOfDrFloyd'': One of the main characters is Dr. Floyd and Dr. Grant's faithful robot companion, C.H.I.P.S., a fully sentient robot.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''

* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/ChibiRobo'' is a Robot Buddy to all of the inhabitants of the house (And I mean ALL), but what makes this even more interesting is that HE has his own Robot Buddy, Telly Vision, who flies around giving Chibi advice and speaking for him in cases where the player has to [[HeroicMime say something other than "yes" or "no"]].

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has Cube, a small robot who looks like a baseball with glasses and a cap who's the resident Robot Buddy of the spaceship Cogita Ergo Sum. However, rather than being a sidekick he's the protagonist of his section of the game as his story is all about him working to save his crew from what is effectively a Xenomorph and later [[spoiler:[[AIIsACrapshoot the hostile ship AI]]]].

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', HUE is your robot assistant at Darcy's secondhand shop. He's a small robot who sits on your table and guides you in running the shop.

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''' (asking Lisa after talking with Creator/StephenHawking), ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* In ''Film/{{Starcrash}}'', the robot Elle starts as an antagonistic police officer sent to arrest the main characters, but by the end he's Stella's best friend, all his initial menace replaced with quirkiness (including an inexplicable southern accent and a CatchPhrase of "That makes me nervous").

* The protocol droids in ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' certainly act the part, but have been reprogrammed to fulfill a [[ActionBomb slightly different function]].

* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' has the Peebo Scouts; three AI-controlled mobile bombs Brianna programmed with the personalities of herself and her sisters, as a way of [[CloningBlues vicariously living through a childhood]] with Gina and Brittany. As with most children, they mostly get into trouble.

* Roboto in ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' has the misfortune of being a Robot Buddy to Dodgers, whose selfishness and insecurity mean he alternates between taking advantage of Roboto's willingness to help and plotting the robot's demise because it's better than him at stuff.

---->'''Fry:''' ''[about Bender]'' On more than one occasion he actually stole my blood.

%%* WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron's mechanical canine, Goddard.

This kind of character is often small (anywhere between one and three feet tall), [[CuteMachines cute looking]] and has a million and one functions; if you need him to do a job, he has [[DoAnythingRobot the right tool installed for it]]. [[SuperpoweredRobotMeterMaids Up to and including jet packs.]] Can sometimes be the scifi equivalent of a {{Familiar}}.

** The droid pair of C-3PO and R2-D2, with C-3PO's fluency in "over 6 million forms of communication" and R2-D2's seemingly endless supply of gadgets for every conceivable task.

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* I.R. from ''Anime/CorrectorYui''.
* Another series from the "Nagahama trilogy" ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'' gave us another robot buddy. It performed all kind of tasks in the [[HomeBase Daimobic]] -including household chores- and it gave advice and council (often of the "Nobody asked you!" kind).

* ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'', where everyone and their grandmother has one.
** [[FunSize 2 foot tall]] beetle [[MyLittlePanzer armed with 48-caliber revolver AND micro-missile]]? They're your friends.

* The Tachikomas in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' are the sweetest, nicest little things you've ever seen, replete with childish voice and cute bubbly appearance. They are also armed with machine guns and grenade launchers (with an optional minigun attachment), and won't bat an eyelid (well, so to speak) at the concept of slaughtering entire platoons of bad guys. And yes, they do eventually perform a HeroicSacrifice (''twice'').
** They also have no concept of work, so apparently killing bad guys is their ''hobby''.
** The friendliness is subverted in one episode, showing that they're oblivious to anything being wrong with [[KickTheDog throwing a dog]].

* Gill/Giru from ''Anime/DragonballGT''.

* The ''television set'' from ''Anime/{{FLCL}}''.
* There's a few Franchise/{{Digimon}} that count, notably [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Andromon]], [[Anime/DigimonTamers Guardromon]], and [[Anime/DigimonFusion Ballistamon]].

* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'' has QT, an outdated but loyal vacuum cleaner robot, as Dandy's.

* Telemachus' robot Nono in ''Anime/Ulysses31''.
* Obami from ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''. Orbital-7 is one for Kaito, although Kaito is an AntiHero at best.

* Snivel and NSOB from the French series ''ComicBook/{{Sillage}}'' (known in the US as ''Wake'').

* Sox, Buzz Lightyear's [[MechanicalAnimals cat robot]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}''.
* Carl in ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons''.
* BEN from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet''.

* Brian's homemade robot Charles in ''Film/BrianAndCharles''.
* Bubo the clockwork owl from ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|1981}}''.

* Robby the Robot in ''Film/ForbiddenPlanet'' epitomizes this trope, and may have done it first in film.

* GERTY of ''Film/{{Moon}}'' is more or less [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL's]] [[spoiler:nice]] brother.

* ERK-147 in ''Literature/ChronoHustle''.

* Gizmo from the ''Literature/ColonyMars'' books is this, in spades

* Deputy Andy from ''Series/{{Eureka}}''.

* Yoyo in ''Series/HolmesAndYoyo''.

* Robot from ''Series/LostInSpace''.

** Magic Screen (to an extent) on the same show.
* Romford in ''Series/{{Pixelface}}''.

* Kevin from (I am not joking you) ''Series/SavedByTheBell''.

* The ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'' had Colanator & Robot Redshirt.

* Pipo from ''VideoGame/OverBlood''.

* Beep-0 from ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle''.

* Scrapper in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''.

* PAL-18 from ''VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}''

* Turing, the first sentient machine from ''VideoGame/ReadOnlyMemories''

* Co-Host 3000 from ''WebAnimation/{{Spill}}''.
* Archie from ''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV''.
* ''WebAnimation/MagicalMagiball'': Roberto is this to Magical Magiball.

* Ethan manufactures one out of his UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} in ''Webcomic/CtrlAltDel''.

* '''Pizmo''' in ''Webcomic/SpaceKid''.

* Short, ditzy Pewter from ''Webcomic/AnnaGalactic''.

* Burton from ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment''.
* And Pollo from ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''.
* ''And'' WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's nameless SexSlave robot.

* And now ''WebVideo/EightiesDan'' has [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem R.O.B.]]

* Cubix from ''Animation/CubixRobotsForEveryone''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'': Blue Falcon's best buddy, Dynomutt, the Dog Wonder.

* WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron's mechanical canine, Goddard.
* Brainiac 5 in the animated series ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperheroes'' (but not the original comics, where he's an organic alien).

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{MASK}} M.A.S.K.]]'', T-Bob is this for Scott Trakker.

* ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'' has Cytro. The [[WesternAnimation/MaxSteel2013 reboot]] has Steel himself.

* ''WesternAnimation/PackagesFromPlanetX'' Has [=CuRT=].

* Bot from ''WesternAnimation/TeamUmizoomi''.

* H.E.L.P.eR from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' certainly qualifies complete with a dash of TheUnintelligible and both TheChewToy and TheWoobie.

* Pepper, from Japanese and French company Aldebaran Robotics, is this. She has a very friendly and sweet personality and, thanks to cloud solutions like Microsoft Azure, Amazon's Alexa or IBM's Watson, can be very smart.
* Jibo, from Boston-based company Jibo Inc., is this too.
* Tesla’s proposed Teslabot, designed to eliminate dangerous, repetitive, or boring tasks, would be this.

* 4-DAC in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestVersusTheCyberInsects'' and to a lesser extent 3-DAC in ''WesternAnimation/JonnysGoldenQuest''.

* Dot Matrix in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', a Robot Nag rather than a Robot Buddy.

* The Larry 3000 from ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' is of the DeadpanSnarker variety of Robot Buddies.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsInvasion'': Prowl is Finn's robotic companion, linked to him by a pair of remote goggles that let Finn see what he does, and acting as a snarky sidekick.