Sci-Fi Robot

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19th century and earlier
The woman forged out of gold in Finnish myth The Kalevala (prehistoric folklore)
From 600 BC onward, legends of talking bronze and clay statues coming to life have been a regular occurrence in the works of classical authors such as Homer, Plato, Pindar, Tacitus, and Pliny. In Book 18 of the Iliad, Hephaestus the god of all mechanical arts, was assisted by two moving female statues made from gold – living young damsels, filled with minds and wisdoms. Another legend has Hephaestus being commanded by Zeus to create the first woman, Pandora, out of clay. The myth of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, tells of a lonely man who sculpted his ideal woman, Galatea, from ivory, and promptly fell in love with her after the goddess Aphrodite brought her to life.
Talos, bronze giant Talos in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica, 3rd century BCE
Brazen heads, attributed to numerous scholars involved in the introduction of Arabian science to medieval Europe, particularly Roger Bacon (13th century)
Golem – The legend of the Golem, an animated man of clay, is mentioned in the Talmud. (16th century)
Talus, iron man who mechanically helps Arthegall dispense justice in The Faerie Queene, the epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published in 1590
Olimpia, automaton who captivates the hero Nathanael so much he wishes to marry her in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann (1814)
Artificial human-like being created by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)
A mechanical man powered by steam in Edward S. Ellis' The Steam Man of the Prairies (1865)
Olympia in Act I of Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, based on the Hoffmann story (1881)
A mechanical man run by electricity in Luis Senarens' Frank Reade and his Electric Man (1885)
Hadaly, a mechanical woman run by electricity, in Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's The Future Eve (1886) – the novel credited with popularizing the word android
The Brazen Android by William Douglas O'Connor. First appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1891
The Dancing Partner by Jerome K.Jerome of Three Men in a Boat fame (1893)
The mecha-like tripods that the Martians use to conquer the Earth in The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1897)
The New Frankenstein by Ernest Edward Kellett (1899), in which an inventor creates an anti-phonograph that according to the narrator can give the appropriate answer to every question I put, and installs in it a robotic female body that will guide herself, answer questions, talk and eat like a rational being, in fact, perform the part of a society lady. The android proves convincing enough to fool two suitors who wish to marry her.[2]
Early 1900s
The Metal Men automata designed by a Thomas Edison-like scientist in Gustave Le Rouge's La Conspiration des Milliardaires (1899–1900)
Tik-Tok in L. Frank Baum's Oz books, premiering in Ozma of Oz (1907), and in the movie Return to Oz, largely based on Ozma of Oz
A robot chess-player in Moxon's Master by Ambrose Bierce (first published in the San Francisco Examiner on 16 Aug. 1899)
In Gaston Leroux's La Poupée Sanglante (The Bloody Doll) and La Machine à Assassiner (The Murdering Machine), the lead character, Bénédict Masson, is wrongly accused of murder and guillotined. His brain is later attached to an automaton created by scientist Jacques Cotentin, and Masson goes on to track and punish those who caused his death.
1920s
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (1921), by Karel Čapek – credited with coining the term robot. In its original Czech, robota means forced labour, and is derived from rab, meaning slave. R.U.R. depicts the first elaborate depiction of a machine take-over. Čapek's robots can also be seen as the first androids: they are in fact organic.
Le Singe (The Monkey) (1925), by Maurice Renard and Albert Jean, imagined the creation of artificial lifeforms through the process of radiogenesis, a sort of human electrocopying or cloning process.
The Metal Giants (1926), by Edmond Hamilton, in which a computer brain who runs on atomic power creates an army of 300-foot-tall robots.
Metropolis (1927), by Thea von Harbou as novel, by Fritz Lang as film, character Maria and her robot double.
Automata (1929), by S. Fowler Wright, about machines doing the humans' jobs before wiping them out. robots character sci fi sci machine future futuristic mechanical body scifi giant giant robotss future robots game scifi game scifi movie us 2040 2050 2030 fi sci fi character