List of recurring robot characters from Futurama

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Futurama's recurring robot characters:

Boxy

Boxy is a crude, Dalek like robot, capable of communicating by way of beeping. He is frequently seen in the company of Calculon, and has played a role or two on the Soap Opera All My Circuits, as Calculon's Half-brother. Boxy is frequently victimized by others, Calculon included, simply for his being an easy target. In the episode That's Lobstertainment! Boxy is hired by Calculon to kill Harold Zoid if Calculon does not receive the Oscar for his recent movie role.

Fatbot

A fat robot who wears a beanie. He is portrayed as a robot nerd (based on Kent "Flounder" Dorfman from Animal House). First seen in the episode Mars University as a member of Robot House, the worst fraternity on campus. At the end of the episode, as a postscript, it is revealed that Fatbot caught a virus in Tijuana and had to be rebooted. Also seen in Crimes of the Hot and in Obsoletely Fabulous, standing in line behind Bender to get his upgrade to be compatible with the new 1-X robot.

Flexo

(voiced by John DiMaggio) - A Bender - Unit 22 robot, serial number 3370318, his and Bender's serial numbers gave both robots much amusement as both their serial codes are expressable as the sum of two cubes. Flexo has a habit of pretending to be angry when he actually isn't. He often slanders or threatens an individual and then subsequently lightens up, adding "Nah, I'm just messin' with ya; you're all right."

Flexo looks and sounds exactly like Bender with the exception of having a small triangular metal goatee (see "Mirror, Mirror") on his chin. He first appeared in "Lesser of Two Evils" when Fry accidentally ran him over with a 20th Century gasoline-fueled car (a 1992 Latoura), and gave him ass-whiplash. He became good friends with Bender, inspiring jealousy and suspicion from Fry, especially as Flexo often played cruel jokes on him (though only as much as Bender does). Fry originally believed that Flexo was an evil twin of Bender and suspected that he would try to steal the crown from the Miss Universe pageant. However, it turned out that Bender was the one attempting to steal the crown and Flexo was actually trying to stop him, therefore making Bender the evil twin. (The confusion surrounding whether Flexo is good or evil is also not helped by his rather sinister laughter.) When the police arrived at the scene, they mistook Flexo for Bender and, at the behest of Bob Barker, arrested him instead, sending him to a South American-Turkish prison.

In a deleted scene in the episode "Bender Gets Made", Bender is shown scratching out his serial code so the robot mafia will not find him, however the code scratched out is Flexo's, not Bender's. According to the DVD commentary, his scene was cut as it was thought to be too confusing and would infuriate fans; the implication seems to be that it was Bender, and not Flexo, who was arrested previously, meaning the fans (if not police) had identified the wrong robot.

In "Bendless Love", Bender briefly dated Flexo's ex-wife Angleyne. Once Bender discovers that Angleyne used to be married to Flexo, Bender impersonates Flexo, and, for the second time, Flexo is punished for Bender's behavior when the robot mafia drops a large, unbendable metal beam onto Flexo, crushing him. This could have killed him had he been trapped under it for an entire year, but Bender rescues him. Flexo then gets back together with Angleyne, and the two have sex "right there on the factory floor," apparently with Bender still in the room.

Hedonism Bot

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - A gold-colored robot whose sole purpose in life is self-gratification. In fact, he is the very definition of Hedonism, as he is not simply a "Hedonist Bot" but rather the "Hedonism Bot." A parody of gluttonous and flamboyant Roman emperors, he is built into his lounging chair. Laugh reminiscent of the main character (Mozart) in Amadeus. Features in the last episode, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", when he commissions Fry to write and perform an opera. First appeared in "Crimes of the Hot" when he uttered his famous lines: "Let the games begin!" and "I apologize for nothing!"

Though robots in Futurama as a rule are drawn with square pupils, Hedonism Bot is an exception.

The DVD commentary of the final episode of the show holds the immortal line concerning Hedonism Bot: "Every appearance just raises further questions."

Humor-Bot 5.0

A robotic comedian. Humor-Bot hosts a show titled Late Night in Bend Her with Coilette, but still appears in the Comedy Simulator's amateur night in That's Lobstertainment!. He also appears in the background as a broken robot in Bendin' in the Wind.

Malfunctioning Eddie

The proprieter of Malfunctioning Eddie's Rocket Car Emporium. He is known to violently explode when apparently shocking facts are revealed to him. In adverts, he says, "Hi I'm Malfunctioning Eddie, and I'm malfunctioning so badly, I'm practically giving these cars away." The character is based on Crazy Eddie. He appeared the episode Put Your Head on My Shoulders as the manager of the car dealership when Amy is buying a new car. In the episode Insane in the Mainframe he is Fry's roommate in the robot insane asylum, during this time he is apparently almost completely cured of his exploding problem. He also makes an appearance in Crimes of the Hot.

Reverend Lionel Preacherbot

(voiced by Phil LaMarr) - A preacher at the Temple of Robotology who always manages to be on hand to conduct weddings and funerals, no matter how far, and who has aspirations of acting that same role in movies. His speech patterns, accent, and mannerisms are modeled on those of stereotypical black American preachers.

Roberto

(voiced by David Herman) - A criminally insane robot who appears to be some kind of stab-bot, although he claims: "I'm not insane, I'm just not user-friendly!" His insane acts include targeting the same establishment for robbery three times in a row, killing other robots to provide a disguise and "practicin' my stabbin'." He is believed to have had a rather traumatic childhood. His catchphrase is, "Ha-HAAAA!", uttered when attempting to stab someone.

He most notably appeared in "Insane in the Mainframe" when Fry and Bender are implicated in one of his bank robberies. He's also in "Obsoletely Fabulous," although much less prominently. He also appeared in "Crimes of the Hot."

The Robot Devil

(voiced by Dan Castellaneta) - The Robot Devil lives in Robot Hell (located in an amusement park in New Jersey), hidden beneath Reckless Ted's Funland in the Inferno ride. Like many versions of the devil character, he likes to play the fiddle, which he was taught by his old music teacher Mrs. Mellonger, the woman who much later also would instruct Philip J. Fry. Also, he has his own band of demonic robots, of which one is named Doug. In the last episode, it is revealed that the Robot Devil is the man behind Calculon's unholy acting 'talent'. He appears in two episodes as a major character, "Hell Is Other Robots" and the final episode, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", as well as brief cameos in "A Tale of Two Santas" and "Crimes of the Hot", in these cameos he is voiced by Maurice LaMarche rather than Dan Castellaneta and has the line "I heard him".

He is also referred to as Beelzebot, a play on the name of the seraph Beelzebub. Though he is only referred to as such once in the series, in fanon it's considered his "real" name by some.

The Robot Elders

The five Robot Elders first appear in "Fear of a Bot Planet". They rule Chapek 9, a human-hating robot planet. Over four centuries ago, they were hand-carved from meteorites by robot founders. They, and possibly a larger group of robots, separated themselves from the human race, where they were forced to work. They colonized Chapek 9 and created a strictly robot society where humans are actively hunted and killed. The Robot Elders feed lies to the robot citizens of Chapek 9 about super powers humans possess in order to create a level of fear and animosity, to distract from their other social problems like the crippling lug nut shortage and rulership by incompetent Robot Elders. Although the Robot Elders know that humans are harmless, they refuse to live in harmony with them. All but one of the Robot Elders remain unnamed; one is revealed to be named "Jimmy". They are prone to shout "Silence!", even at each other.

A robot elder appears to be a member of the jury of members of the DOOP (Democratic Order Of Planets) considering the case of Zapp Brannigan, in the episode "Brannigan Begin Again".

The Robot Mafia

(voiced by Maurice LaMarche and John DiMaggio) - A three-member crime syndicate operating out of "Fronty's Meat Market" (Not a front since 2997), who periodically dine at Elzar's, hijack shipments of Zuban cigars, arrange "accidents" for robots who flash rolls of banknotes earned after crossing picket lines, as well as other unspecified Mafia-related illegal activities. It is speculated in the DVD commentary of Bender Gets Made that the Robot Mafia exists because robots are better at organized crime than humans, thus the human mafia was a victim of industrialization. This explains why, though many robots are criminals by choice, the mafia appears to have been built for that purpose.

The leader, the Donbot, (Maurice LaMarche) enjoys wearing rings and capes and has two loyal henchmen:

Joey Mousepad (John DiMaggio), a burly and almost awkwardly articulate goonbot wearing a computer-mouse necklace.
Clamps (Maurice LaMarche), a skinny, twitchy, ultra-psychotic/sarcastic robot who is obsessed not only with the clamps at the ends of his arms, but also with using them.

These three robots claim to make up the entire Robot Mafia. However in other episodes Bender and Tinny Tim are also shown working for the mafia.

The Robot Mafia most prominently appears in the episode Bender Gets Made.

The Donbot can be seen with F.A.R.T. (Fathers Against Rude Television) in "Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV."

Donbot and Clamps make cameo appearances in "Crimes of the Hot."

Equally entertaining is their appearance in the episode "Bendless Love."

Robot Santa

(voiced by John Goodman; John DiMaggio) - Robot Santa, also known as Santabot, is a robot created to decide who's been naughty and who's been nice, distributing presents or punishments accordingly. Unfortunately, due to a programming error, his standards were set far too high, and he consequently judges everyone to be naughty - and even more unfortunately, he punishes 'naughtiness' with extreme violence, leading him to go on destructive rampages across Earth every Xmas. There is one known exception to his universally naughty sentence: Dr. Zoidberg, who was given a pogo stick as a gift. When he goes on a rampage on Earth, he's been known to use Xmas gimmicks and hurts/kills people in a holiday manner, such as launching a bike at a young girl, and killing a grandfather by choking him to death with a chestnut. He even judges people who refuse to pay mafia protection money as naughty.

He can't be destroyed by use of a paradox, unlike most robots, because he was built with 'Paradox absorbing crumple zones', however paradoxes do cause his head to explode and another head to pop up from his chest. Robot Santa resides in his fortress on Neptune and uses Neptunians as labor for toy manufacture. The Neptunians are dwarves as Robot Santa does not feed them and their lack of nourishment has stunted their growth, but they live in gingerbread housing. His fortress has attack dogs that bark Christmas carols, laser death beams, saws, and monitors used to check everyone in the universe for naughty deeds, especially New Orleans. He was voiced by John Goodman in his first appearance ("Xmas Story"), and John DiMaggio in his second ("A Tale of Two Santas"), as John Goodman was not available.

Tinny Tim

A homeless child robot who idolises Bender. In keeping with his name (a reference to Tiny Tim, the crippled child of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol) not only is he endlessly polite in all situations ("Gentle jerkwads..."), one of his arms is in fact a wooden crutch, and much is made of his largely obsolete and broken-down nature, despite the fact that, like most robotic criminals and vagrants, he was clearly designed with the express purpose of being that way, for reasons unknown. He speaks with a (Home Counties) British accent. He operates an oilade stand, although is seemingly incapable of making oilade, his only self-confessed ability being to reverse letters on the front of the stand in a 'cute' manner. He appeared in the following episodes:

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(voiced by John DiMaggio) - One of two police officers who regularly arrest the principals of the show, often but not always including Bender. Massively built, armed to the teeth, and sometimes fitted with a fine printer, his speech is peppered with blaxploitation catchphrases (e.g. "Awwww yeah, you deadbeats are under arrest, and it's a stone cold shame!"). Partnered with the human Smitty, in a parody of buddy-cop movie formula. Most of the dialogue between URL and Smitty hints that they are gay and possibly romantically involved.

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