100 Robot Names
Choosing a name for your baby is no easy task – the options are limitless and there’s thousands of inspirations to draw from. With the rise of technology, some parents are now considering robot-inspired names as a unique option.
Whether you’re a fan of sci-fi movies or simply looking for something unconventional, robot names evoke that sense of adventure and imagination while maintaining a modern edge. Apart from their tech-touch, these names can reflect qualities like intelligence, strength, and adaptability—values we often associate with robots.
Choosing robot names for babies, pets or for a character you are dreaming can be fun and trendy, adding a touch of futuristic charm to their identity. From real life robots, video game characters to cyborgs in films, we rounded up robot name inspirations and logged them on this list!
Names of Real Life Robots
Alice (f)
Alice, also known as Eva, is a robot developed by Hanson Robotics. She has facial features that enable her to express feelings and display human reactions.
Ameca (f)
Ameca is a humanoid robot designed in the UK that can do human gestures, draw, and talk and express a range of emotions.
Henn (f)
These are robot staff in a hotel in Japan called the Weird Hotel. The hotel prides itself with the use of robo-females in their front desk and of a facial recognition feature instead of keys during check in.
Nadine (f)
Nadine is an empathetic, social robot created by Japanese company Kokoro. Nadine responds to greetings, can make eye contact and retains conversations. She is also fluent in six languages: English, Hindi, French, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Sofia (f)
Sofia is probably one of the most famous real-life robots. She’s a humanoid-like robot capable of conversation and was even given citizenship in Saudi Arabia. She has appeared in interviews and appearances including a visit on the Jimmy Fallon show where they sang a duet.
Valkyrie (f)
Created by NASA, Valkyrie is a 6-foot bipedal robot with human-like hands and complex visual sensors.
Asimo (m)
Asimo is another humanoid robot created by Honda. It boasts of impressive mobility features being able to run, hop, jump, run backwards and descend stairs. It can recognize faces, voices of multiple people speaking at the same time, and predict what you’ll do next.
Atlas (m)
Dubbed as “the robot that can do parkour”, Atlas is a hulk humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics that can do multiple activities including backflips and gripping objects.
Nao (m)
Not only is Nao multilingual, he can also help you in opening a bank account!
Pepper (gender-neutral)
Uwu! The emotionally available robot, Pepper can sense emotion and can display feelings too.
RoBoHon (gender-neutral)
RoBohon is a smartphone-robot from Sharp. It works like a regular phone, but it can also move and talk for call alerts and notifications. It has a built-in projector and moves its head to project images on surfaces.
Robear
Described as “the strong robot with the gentle touch”, Robear is a real-life care-robot developed by Japanese scientists in Nagoya, Japan. Robear is created with the goal of making caring for the elderly easier.
Spot
Spot is a dog-like robot created by Boston Dynamics. Despite weighing a whopping 73kg, it can do tricks like climbing, kicking, trot and walk. Spot runs on electricity.
Xiaomi CyberDog
CyberDog is promoted as an affordable option from Spot. Among its notable features, it can move as fast as 3.2 meters per second, create maps, avoid obstacles, track motion and is AI powered. Frankly, this robo-dog kind of reminded me of an episode in Love, Death + Robots.
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Robot Names from Pop Culture
Female Robot Names from Pop Culture
Ava
Ava is a humanoid robot with a female body and face in the movie Ex Machina. She can trigger power outages, technical glitches. With her artificial intelligence she expresses her desire to experience the world.
The name Ava means voice or sound in Persian, and also has Germanic etymology.
Cappy
Cappy is a slender female robot with short black hair and green eyes in the animated movie Robots. She is level-headed and is the love interest of the main protagonist Rodney Copperbottom.
Cherry
Cherry from the movie Cherry 2000 is the robot wife of a war veteran.
Dolores
Dolores, the Robot Supremacist, is a sentient robot in the series Westworld. The name Dolores means sorrows in Spanish and became a popular name in America in the 1920s.
Dot Matrix
Dot Matrix in Spaceballs is a humanoid golden robot with female features including hair. She has puffed up sleeve shoulders and a skirt. She is an obvious rip-off from Star Wars’ C-3PO.
Eve
The name Eve is not only used for a robot’s name once but twice. Also known as EVE VIII, the robot Eve in the movie Eve of Destruction is a humanoid military android who is also a walking nuclear bomb. In the Disney movie Wall-E, EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is a robot sent out to check Earth for plant life.
The name Eve has Hebrew origins and means Mother of All Living.
Galatea
In the late Robin Williams’ film, The Bicentennial Man, Galatea is an android servant with female-like physical features – short hair, eyebrows and well-shaped lips.
The name Galatea is derived from the Greek word gala meaning milk.
Galaxina
Galaxina is a blonde android in the sci-fi comedy movie with the same name. She heads the crew of an Intergalactic Space Police patrol to recover a stolen gemstone.
Katie
Katie from the virtual pet website Neopets. She fights alongside a giant robot she created named Tiny.
Ilia
Lieutenant Ilia was a female Deltan Starfleet officer in the 23rd century that served under Captain Kirk. The name Ilia may be a feminine alternative to the name Elijah.
Lydia
Lydia Copperbottom is a character in the animated movie Robots. She is the kind hearted and melodramatic mother of the main protagonist.
Maria
Maria in the movie Metropolis is created with the “machine man in the form of a woman” in mind. Maria is also called as Maschinenmensch which translates to “machine-human” in German.
Piper
Piper is a teenage robot in the animated movie Robots. She has pigtail-like objects on her head that can stretch to lengths and she can use as her weapons. She has a spritely personality that suits her bright yellow color.
Rosie
First introduced as Rosey then later spelled Rosie, she is a robot and housekeeper in the Warner Bros animated series The Jetsons. She is mostly a blue robot and rolls around on wheels.
Simone
You might want to get name inspiration from Swedish inventor, TV host, YouTuber and robotics enthusiast Simone Giertz. She branded herself as “the queen of shi**y robots” on her YouTube channel where she demonstrates mechanical robots automating everyday tasks.
Tima
Tima is the main character in the anime movie Metropolis. She is a little robot girl with blonde hair and green eyes.
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Male Robot Names from Pop Culture
Amee
AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion) is a military robot in the movie Red Planet. Exceptionally agile and mobile, AMEE was designed for Mars exploration but technical failure turned it into the movie’s antagonist.
Amazo
AMAZO is an artificial intelligence supervillain robot in the DC comics. He can crash through a building without damage. He was created to have the combined powers of the original Justice League.
Astro Boy
Astro Boy is a manga and movie robot boy superhero. He is known for his deep love for humanity and his selfless, brave and kindhearted personality.
Atom
Atom is the fighting metal robot of Hugh Jackman in the film Real Steel. He mimics the movements of his human model/coach in the movie while fighting in the ring. He also hinted to have some sense of sentience when he nodded to the question of whether he understands.
Baymax
Baymax is a healthcare robot in the Disney movie Big Hero 6. He is an inflatable white robot (like a giant huggable marshmallow) with a guileless and nurturing personality.
Bender
Bender Bending Rodriguez is the metal robot in the animated TV series Futurama. He is known for his thuggish personality.
Bishop
Bishop is an android science officer in the movie series Aliens. The name Bishop is traced to Greek roots and means overseer.
Box
In the movie Logan’s Run, Box is a cyborg designed to get food by freezing animals with a ray gun.
C-3PO
Now this is not a name usually given to a child but C-3PO is a popular robot from Star Wars and we just couldn’t miss mentioning him in this list. He is the robot companion Anakin built as a boy.
Chappie
From the movie titled the same, Chappie is a robot with the ability to think and feel for himself in a high crime city.
Daryl
Daryl is a highly advanced A.I. experiment by a government company in the film D.A.R.Y.L. He has the features of a young boy.
Fender
Fender is the main character’s best friend in the animated movie Robots. He is a slender rusty red robot and was voiced by the late Robin Williams.
Grimlock
Grimlock is the leader of dinobots in the Transformers robots franchise.
Gypsy Danger
Gypsy Danger in the futuristic movie Pacific Rim is a jaeger, a specialized mobile robot and weapon. Jaegers are maneuvered by human pilots.
Hogarth
Now Hogarth Hughes may not be a robot, but his close relationship with the main robot in the film Iron Giant is notable, it merits a spot on this list. Also the name Hogarth has a nice but cool ring for anyone who finds robots interesting.
Jinx
Jinx is the tri-legged sentient robot in the film SpaceCamp. He succeeds in figuring out a way to send the kids in the movie to space.
Johnny
Johnny 5 is a robot that gained sentience after being struck by lightning in the sci-fi movie Short Circuit. He is known for his expressive eyebrows.
Kronos
Kronos, also known as Kronos, Destroyer of the Universe, is a gigantic robot from outer space. In the movie with the same title, Kronos destroys planets by extracting its sources of energy.
Kryten
Kryten is a mechanoid robot in the British sci-fi series Red Dwarf. He is a sanitation robot with emotions and self-awareness.
Marcus
Marcus is a human turned to robot after his death in the classic film Terminator Salvation. Like other terminators, he possesses incredible strength and can connect to systems.
Marvin
Marvin, the Paranoid Android, is a robot aboard the starship Heart of Gold in the series and movie The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Mechanidas
Mechanidas was borne by a tyrant Sparta who lived around the 3rd century BC. The first part of the name Mecha is possibly derived from the Greek word Machana meaning machine or device.
Mettaton
Mettaton is an entertainment robot turned killing machine in the indie game Undertale. The lore is that he is a ghost possessing the body of a robot.
Moguera
Moguera is a giant war machine in the movie The Mysterians. Its figure resembles a chicken with a mosquito head.
Omega
Omega is the tiny robot in the movie The First Spaceship On Venus. He accompanies the crew and entertains them by playing chess and interacting.
Optimus
And how could we miss the most famous autobot!
Robby
Robby the Robot is a 7-foot tall fictional character. He first appeared in the movie The Forbidden Planet. He made other appearances in multiple sci-fi films.
Rodney
Rodney Copperbottom is the main character in the animated movie Robots. With humble beginnings and a mostly teal-colored body, he aspires to be an inventor.
Roy Batty
Roy Batty is a fictional robot character in the movie Blade Runner. He is a combat robot who goes maniac while seeking to extend his expiry.
Sonny
Sonny from the film I, Robot is a silver humanoid robot and an ally of the main characters.
Torg
Torg the Robot is a fictional evil martian robot appearing in the movie Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
Ultron
Ultron is a super AI villain in Marvel comics. He can control the minds of his opponents and alter their memories. He was created by Tony Stark to aid in peacekeeping.
Umataro
Inspired by the name of the main antagonist in Astro Boy, Dr. Umataro Tenma. He is a roboticist and the father of Toby Tenma, Astro Boy’s model.
Wall-E
Wall-E is the last robot on the abandoned Earth in the Disney sci-fi movie with the same name. He was programmed to clean the earth one cube at a time.
Names That Sound Similar To Robot
- Rabiat (f)
- Rabiyat (f)
- Rebiat (f)
- Rubati (f)
- Rhobat (m)
- Robat (m)
- Robet/Robett (m)
- Roboute (m)
- Ropata (m)
- Rehoboth (gender-neutral)
- Rubaiyat (gender-neutral)
Cyborg Names
Alita (f)
Alita: The Battle Angel is from a post-apocalyptic sci-fi action film. In the film she tries to regain recollection of her memories while learning her way through her new life.
Astronema (f)
Also known as Princess of Evil, Astronema is the purple-haired space cyborg against Power Rangers: Space.
Bunnie (f)
Bunnie Rabbot is a fictional character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Her robotic features allow her to fly and convert her arm into a laser weapon.
Casella (f)
Casella “Cash” Reese is young Angelina Jolie’s cyborg movie.
Cassandra (f)
Cassandra One is a super machine and has the form of a female in the 1982 movie Android.
The name Cassandra is possibly derived from the Greek term Kekasmai meaning to shine and excel.
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Kimiko (f)
Kimiko Ross is the main heroine in the webcomic Dresden Codak. As a teenage cyborg she has this uncompromising devotion to science.
Adam (m)
Adam is a character in the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. He is part zombie, part mechanical, and describes himself as a demonoid.
Austin (m)
Austin is a mercenary cyborg in the sci-fi movie American Cyborg: Steel Warrior. He tries to save a woman from being killed by an android assassin.
The name Austin is possibly a shorter form of the name Augustine.
Barry (m)
Barry Dylan is a cyborg and the main antagonist in the animated series Archer.
Batou (m)
Blind and a huge build – Batou Buttetsu is the primary male character in the Ghost in the Shell series. He is known for his jokester character and short temper.
Briareos (m)
Briareos is a three quarters cyborg in the Japanese post-apocalyptic animated action film Appleseed.
Doc Ock (m)
Doc Ock or Doctor Octavius was a scientist of the Osborn Corp in the Spiderman movie series. After a miscalculated presentation, he assumes tentacle-like claws and is controlled by AI.
Donald (m)
Donald Pierce is a cyborg supervillain in the Marvel comics and mostly appeared as a nemesis of the X-Men. He can survive as long as his body is intact even if his body is destroyed.
Garth (m)
From the sci-fi film Cyborg 2087 released in 1966, Garth A7 is a cyborg sent back in time to 1966 to stop a tyranny happening in the year 2087.
Genos (m)
Saitama’s most loyal side-kick and disciple, Genos is a humble cyborg in the animated manga series One Punch Man. He can use his hands as fire lasers.
Gigan (m)
Gigan is a fictional alien cyborg that first appeared as a space monster in Godzilla vs Gigan 1972 film.
Grievous (m)
General Grievous is a military strategist who hunted Jedis and collected their lightsabers in the Star Wars franchise. He is known for his cruelty and hacking cough.
Killian (m)
Killian is the main villain in the animated film Spies in Disguise. With a robot hand, he is a tech-based terrorist mastermind.
Metallo (m)
Metallo is a cyborg with a kryptonite heart and is one of Superman’s supervillains. He was created by Superman’s main nemesis Lex Luthor.
Nuke (m)
This name is inspired from the title of the second book in the Cyborg book series Operation Nuke. The term Nuke is a nickname or a slang word for a nuclear weapon.
Reaver (m)
The Reavers are a group of villain cyborgs plotting revenge against the X-Men.
Robotman (m)
Robotman is a scientist turned hero cyborg in the DC Comics. He can use his robo-fingers for thermal blasts and has unbelievable strength and speed.
Victor (m)
Victor Stone is the real name of DC Comics superhero Cyborg.
The name Victor has Latin etymology and was very common among early Christians.
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Wrap Up – Names That Mean Robot
In a world of futuristic possibilities, naming your bundle of joy after a cybernetic being like a robot or a cyborg definitely adds a unique touch. There’s tons of references to draw inspiration from like sci-fi movies, video games, and even cutting-edge technological terms. When choosing a name to go for, it’s also essential to balance creativity and practicality – ensuring that the chosen name is still manageable and won’t attract unwanted attention or lead to constant misspellings or mispronunciations.
We hope you’ve enjoyed our list or robo-names! Did we miss your favorite robot character? What robot names appealed to you the most? We’d love to hear from you in the comments!
Resource: The website Behind the Name is a fantastic resource for finding more names based on uniqueness, similarity to other names, and meaning.