Boilerplate, a Victorian-era robot in the illustrated coffee-table book Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel, published by Abrams (2009) 2010s Adam, one of the first commercially available androids in Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me (2019) The Calculators, an ancient, ongoing family of androids in Paul Levinson's Robinson Calculator novelette (2019) Murderbot, a newly independent security robot in The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells (2017-) Radio Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio series (1978–1980) Tidy, George, Fagor, Surgeon General Kraken and miscellaneous other androids from James Follett's Earthsearch BBC radio series (1980–1981) Fetchers, accident prone and apologetic gopher robots from the BBC radio series Nineteen Ninety-Four (1985) Music Mr. Roboto, the prison robot in the eponymous song from the rock opera Kilroy Was Here by Styx (1983) Rapbot, a robot built for rapping, but with various other functions, including a toaster, from Fake Songs by Liam Lynch (2003) Cindi Mayweather, the protagonist from the "Metropolis" concept series by Janelle Monáe (2007) Cyborg Noodle, the cyborg clone of Noodle from the virtual band Gorillaz who was created for the storyline of their album Plastic Beach (2010) Rovix, K-pop group VIXX's robotic mascot (2012) Film 1940s and earlier The Dummy, played by Ben Turpin in A Clever Dummy, a Sennett silent short dating from 1917 when the term "robot" did not yet exist The Master Mystery, a 1919 theatrical serial starring Harry Houdini, featuring a fully realized mechanical man (implemented as a costumed actor) The Mechanical Man from the Italian silent film of the same name, directed by André Deed (1921) Maria/Futura, the Maschinenmensch, a robotic gynoid, played by German actress Brigitte Helm in both her robotic-appearing and human-appearing forms in Metropolis, the silent science fiction film by famed Austrian-German director Fritz Lang (1927) The Vanishing Shadow, Features a 7 foot tall robot programmed to be an assassin. (1934) Arbeitsmaschine and Kampfmaschine, working robots and fighting robots in the German movie Der Herr der Welt (1934) by Harry Piel; the mad scientist Professor Wolf (Walter Franck) is eventually killed by his fighting robot The Phantom Empire, A 12-chapter Mascot Pictures serial combined the Western, musical and fantasy genres.(1935) The Tin Man, voiced by Billy Bletcher ("My name is robot!") from the Roach comedy short of the same name featuring Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly (1935) Loss of Sensation, A film centering around a man who invents inexhaustible