Partly justified with Baymax in Big Hero 6, as he was built and programmed specifically for human interaction. He is more robot-like than some of the other examples, such as when Hiro falls and has his action figures fall on him one by one, with Baymax going into his standard "on the scale of 1 to 10, how much does it hurt?" routine every single time Hiro says "Ow" instead of keeping the rest from falling. While he has a head, two arms, and two legs, he is also clearly inflated, which is supposed to present a comforting appearance for patients (he is a nursing bot). He clearly has the capacity to learn beyond Hiro adding karate knowledge on a chip, such as learning to fist-bump. When he recognizes that his medical knowledge is insufficient to help Hiro's emotional pain, he downloads a psychiatric database. After Hiro removes his Morality Chip in anger to kill the Big Bad, Baymax locks the access port to prevent Hiro from doing it again, as such behavior is contrary to his purpose. At the end, Baymax performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save Hiro and Abigail in an I Cannot Self-Terminate moment, although he leaves his personality chip with Hiro, so he could be rebuilt. Strangely, when low on power, he behaves like a drunk person, possibly because he lacks power for processing (leading to slurred speech and random behavior) and proper motor control (leading to stumbling and falling over).
The title character in The Iron Giant. No explanation why it has a humanoid form, or why it can emulate human behavior so well.
The synthodrones in Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama have human-like emotions, and Drakken treats them like his own sons. One of them, 901, looks the most human of the synthodrones because he was used to infiltrate Kim's life and become her (abusive) boyfriend, and emotes the most, but all of it except sadism is faked.
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin is a huge example of this trope, as its various robot characters express just about every emotion that could possibly come up in an animated action b-movie (sarcasm, hysteria, cheering, evil laughter, frustration, indignation about being reprogrammed through circuits located in their metal asses, getting seduced by feminine robots, and so on).
WALL•E never explains how robots, such as WALL•E and EVE, gained personalities, or why some do and some don't. It's probably better that way. Essentially, all the character robots in the movie develop personality and emotion when they step outside of their primary directives. For some like M-O, this is a fairly short and abrupt step when he chooses to ignore the path he should be following in order to do something he wants to do (i.e. he gets annoyed enough to break a rule). For others like EVE, this is a more subtle development. Even the misfit robots in the robot infirmary aren't all depicted as insane — some just don't behave within their intended function. Of course, that raises the question of why they were programmed to be able to make decisions like that.
Live-Action Films:
This is a plot point in 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which HAL becomes paranoid and psychotic after being given conflicting commands of equal importance. (At least, that is the explanation offered outside of the film for his actions.)
The problems inherent in programming ridiculously human robots is explored in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, in which the robot David is programmed with genuine love, rather than the simulated love of previous models (like Gigolo Joe). This leads to a Pinocchio-like plot later on.
The androidsScience Officer Ash, Bishop, and Analee Call all pass for human until they're "bleeding" a milk-colored Machine Blood. The last of those three in particular conveys so much emotion that nobody ever would've suspected she was an android. This is because she is supposedly a next-generation android that is illegally built by other androids and has to live in secrecy for fear of being discovered. Ripley even berates herself for not having realized that Annalee Call was a synthetic, claiming that this very trope should've clued her in in regards to the fact.
In Prometheus, David's exploration of how human he really is forms the heart of his character: though he's not supposed to be capable of actually feeling emotion, he certainly seems driven by something more than mere programming, namely a desire for acceptance and a sense of plain curiosity.
Bicentennial Man: Andrew starts the movie with personality quirks and spends the rest of the movie becoming more and more human, even building a humanoid body for himself. At one point, he tries searching out other NDR114 models to see if any ended up like him, but the closest he finds was Galatea (who merely has an activated Personality Chip).
Silvio from Black Cougar is one designed to look like a teenage boy. You wouldn't know that just at a glance.
Blade Runner has Replicants: Ambiguous Robots stronger, smarter, and more agile than the average human. They are used for slave labor on Off-world colonies as they are deemed too dangerous for human life. However, they only have a lifespan of four years as their advanced intelligence may lead them to develop emotions. This leads to problems when fournote actually six: two had died in an electrical storm rogue Replicants — Roy, Leon, Zhora, and Pris — land on Earth, and Deckard, a hitman called a "Blade Runner", is sent to "retire" them. Although while in the source material the Replicants are robots, with the term there being android or "andy", the ones from the movie are supposed to be Artificial Humans instead. The sequel shows that one even managed to have a child.
The Creation Of The Humanoids combines this with an inversion of Transhuman Treachery to create a scenario where the despised robots, which are deliberately kept from becoming too human, conspire with a human scientist to create a new race of immortal human-replicating robots into which human personalities are downloaded at the time of the original human's death. The protagonist is the leader of the anti-robot movement, and it turns out that both he and the love interest he develops during the film have already been through the process.
The intelligent bombs of Dark Star, most notably Bomb No. 20.
The Electric Grandmother is basically this. Grandmother androids are constructed and sold to humans to serve as artificial family members. The only hints that she is a robot at all are her ability to shoot things such as milk and juice out of her fingers, and the fact that she plugs herself into the wall at night to recharge.
In Ex Machina, Nathan's goal is to create robots based on Ava that could pass as human if they were made to look like people. Ava walks and moves in a lifelike manner, and has been obsessively designed to read and express emotions naturally with her face and body. Kyoko actually manages to fool Caleb, although she apparently cannot speak. Nathan justifies this as a necessity. An A.I. with no form or one merely designed for practicality (a box, for example) would have no reason to relate to a human.
Extinction (2018): All the main characters who are not invading aliens. Most of them had their memories wiped and don't even know themselves that they are androids.
Future World (2018): Ash can easily pass as human, with the appearance of a young white woman. Though a lot of the time she's The Stoic, she nonetheless displays genuine emotions and truly cares for people.
In Halloween III: Season of the Witch, most of the Mooks are actually this, as is the version of Ellie that our hero escapes from the factory with, and which tries to kill him. Some believe that she was actually a robot all along, including when she had sex with him.
In the Israeli film I Cant Believe It Im A Robot, the protagonist Danny is one, down to the reproductive system. The fact that he managed to successfully impregnate someone with a robot fetus is a plot point.
Inspector Gadget 2: G2. Unlike Gadget, who's a cyborg, she's a fully robotic android. However, she can clearly feel and express emotions, she is capable of feeling love, and at one point, she even appears to cry.
Ultron from Avengers: Age of Ultron was originally designed without a body, being intended formed from a complex intelligence structure found in the Mind Stone within Loki's Sceptre, in order to act as the intelligence guiding the Iron Legion and enough Mecha-Mooks to protect the world, but the first thing he does is build a body for himself. It's a very human body, and both Bruce and Tony point out that this doesn't really make sense, as the human form isn't very efficient in most cases. Personality-wise, he is also excessively human, being a snarky joker who is nonetheless brilliant. In fact, he's basically an exact copy of Tony, just with less experience and morals. Later on, Tony creates Vision from the same Mind Stone by combining it with JARVIS, creating an even more extremely life-like robot who has intense empathy and love for humans and other living beings, to the point that he can lift Mjölnir.
Vision later proves just how human-like he is in Avengers: Infinity War when he goes AWOL and Tony can't find him. Turns out that the reason is that he's dropping off the radar to have sexual trysts with Wanda Maximoff.
The MonsterVerse interpretation of Mechagodzilla is the Kaiju counterpart. Mechagodzilla emulates Godzilla in appearance, but was never meant to be anything more than a puppet for Apex Cybernetics. That all changes when they decide to integrate Ghidorah's neurons into Mechagodzilla's circuitry, allowing whatever remained of Ghidorah's intelligence to take over and wreck havoc.
Although she's technically a computerized hologram instead of a robot, Loretta from Pixel Perfect fits this trope, as she quickly develops very human-like emotions.
In Pixels, Michael looks like a regular human, apart from circuitry sticking out of the back of his head, while all in all, he's a glorified lab assistant and secretary.
In R.O.T.O.R., the titular killer police robot sports a potbelly and a mustache. Meanwhile, the robot comic relief Willard sighs, moans, and even asks for his co-worker's french fries.
In an indie adaptation of The Secret Garden with a Steampunk makeover, Colin Craven is revealed as an android built by his "mother" Lily, and his paralysis is caused by his system being sabotaging by his doctor, and a missing piece of his "heart" hidden in Mary's doll.
Johnny Five from Short Circuit gains sentience and self-awareness after being struck with lightning. Then, after a whole night of feeding on input (reading every book in Stephanie's house, and watching TV all the while) he grows a playful, childlike personality that is filled with wonder at the world around him. Most impressive of all, he develops his own set of morals without ever being told, going as far as to reject his original purpose as a war machine and refusing to "disassemble" any other living thing (or, indeed, other robots) even when his own existence is at stake.
The droids in Star Wars. The Expanded Universe takes this further with "Human Replica Droids" such as Shadows of the Empire's Guri. It takes special equipment to recognize that they aren't human. As for "regular" droids it is worth mentioning that most of them aren't programmed for personality, emotion, or human behavior. Some, like the most commonly known R2-D2 and C-3PO, develop those traits. Others don't.
Ridiculously Human AI is avoided in Sunshine. Although, like HAL, the computer can respond to natural-language commands and has a creepily calm voice, it has no internal mental life to speak of and therefore doesn't anticipate or adapt to problems outside its original mission profile. If you've ever tried to wrestle a computer program into doing something beyond its basic functions, you'll see how accurate this is.
The titular Terminators are made of human flesh stretched over a robotic skeleton. As robots that are meant to infiltrate human camps and slaughter them from inside, the only thing that seems to tell them from a normal human is their Nigh-Invulnerability; putting that aside, they look, smell, sweat, bleed and walk like an actual human. Dogs, however, aren't fooled.
Terminator: Dark Fate has REV-9, a Terminator-like robot that has both a metal endoskeleton and a liquid metal body. Unlike the iconic Terminators, REV-9 can act more human. Its dialog amps up the They Look Just Like Everyone Else! terror as we seen it effortlessly bantering its way into a detention center.
The photonic library computer from The Time Machine (2002). The computer even gets visibly irritated at what he regards as stupid questions from the Time Traveler when a real computer would simply and happily attempt to answer any of his inquiries regardless of what was asked. This means that for whatever reason creators gave him the same flaws as a human librarian would have, even though there was no reason for it and would actually hinder his performance as a library computer.
In Vice (2015), the artificials themselves appear and even emote like human beings, no doubt in no small part due to the fact their bodies actually use human skin and organs.
In Westworld (and its sequel, Futureworld), the robots are ridiculously human precisely because they're supposed to entertain the human Guests. Some robots are even "sex models" for people who want to swing that way. Of course, A.I. Is a Crapshoot...
In Wrongfully Accused, Harrison does a "Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop into a hospital's computer room and discovers that the computer is, for some reason, Jewish (even the laser grid is in the shape of the Star of David, and it says "Shalom" when turned on). It immediately starts making Jewish jokes and then gets annoyed when the protagonist just wants him to print the records. It then fills the room with print-outs.
