List of Doctor Who robots
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The long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who has featured many robots. The Daleks and Cybermen are not listed as they are cyborgs, and therefore not true robots.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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[edit] Adherents of the Repeated Meme
[edit] Advertising satellite
[edit] Androids (Androzani)
[edit] Androids (Cyberman)
[edit] Androids (Karfel)
[edit] Androids (Krall)
[edit] Androids (Taran)
[edit] Androids (Terileptil)
[edit] Androids (Urbankan)
[edit] Anne Droid
[edit] C
[edit] Chumblies
[edit] Cleaning robots
[edit] Clockwork Droids
[edit] Clockwork Soldiers
[edit] Cybermat
[edit] D
[edit] Dalek duplicates
[edit] Davinadroid
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[edit] Gundan
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| Gundans | |
| Type | Armoured war robot |
| Affiliated with | Human slaves |
| Homeworld | The Gateway |
| First appearance | Warriors' Gate |
The Gundans were a squad of war robots encountered by the Fourth Doctor in the 1980 story Warriors' Gate by Stephen Gallagher. They were designed by the human slaves of the Tharils and used as a spearhead in the revolution which overthrew the Tharil empire. Designed with the primary purpose to resist and kill Tharils, the Gundans could travel the time winds like their prey and butchered many during the revolt. Each Gundan was armed with an axe and decorated with horns to make the robots seem more fearful. The revolt began on the day of the Great Feast, and several inert and decaying Gundans were found by the Doctor when he visited the feasting hall in the Gateway between the universes. The skeletons of their defeated enemies remained in their seats around the feasting table. The Doctor repaired the memory wafers of a Gundan to discover what had caused the decay of the Gateway.
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[edit] Ice Soldiers
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[edit] K1
In Robot (Doctor Who), K1 was a robot designed in the 20th century to replace Humans in dangerous environments, but was subverted by a group of intellectuals who wanted to take power for themselves.
[edit] K9
[edit] Kamelion
[edit] Kandy Man
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[edit] L1
[edit] L3
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[edit] Mechanoid
The Mechanoids were large, spherical robots originally created to serve humans in The Chase. Mechanoids which had been sent to prepare the planet Mechanus for human colonization kept the astronaut Steven Taylor prisoner, since he did not have the Mechanoids' control codes. Daleks, following the TARDIS crew, engaged the Mechanoids in battle.
The Mechanoids appear in the Big Finish audio drama The Juggernauts. In this story, Davros adds human nervous tissue to robotic Mechanoid shells to create the Juggernauts of the play's title. The Mechanoids also appear in the comic strip The World That Waits in the 1965 annual The Dalek World.
[edit] Megara justice machine
[edit] Metallic Root
[edit] Mining robot
[edit] Movellan
[edit] O
[edit] Osirian service robots
[edit] P
[edit] Polyphase Avatron
[edit] Q
[edit] Quark
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| Quarks | |
| Type | Robots |
| Affiliated with | Dominators |
| Homeworld | Unknown |
| First appearance | The Dominators |
The Quarks appeared in the Second Doctor serial The Dominators by Henry Lincoln and Mervyn Haisman in 1969.
The Quarks were used on Dulkis by the Dominators to enslave and terrorise the indigenous Dulcian population to ensure the drilling of bore holes through the planet's crust. The Dominators planned to use their technology to fire seeds down the holes which would force the core to erupt, thus providing a new fuel source for their fleet.
The Quarks were rectangular in shape, with four arms: one pair which folded into the body, the other pair being retractable. On the end of each arm was a solitary claw. The legs extended out below the Quark body. The spherical head was visibly divided into octants; the upper four octants formed the sensory hemisphere, which detected changes in light, heat and motion. At the corners of seven of the octants were directional crystal beam transmitters (the eighth corner joined with the robot's extremely short neck). Quarks communicated by means of high-pitched sound waves. Their major weakness was a tendency to run out of energy rather quickly.
The Quarks were portrayed by children (requiring them to have a chaperone whilst on set.) One Quark was also seen in the serial The War Games, while one of the children who portrayed one of the Quarks appeared as an Axon (in their humanoid guise) in The Claws of Axos. The Quarks were designed as an, albeit unsuccessful, attempt at creating a merchandise property, as the Daleks had become earlier.
Quarks are also referred to in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Flip-Flop. When they attacked the space yacht Pinto, the Seventh Doctor and Mel went searching for leptonite crystals in order to defeat them. It is not known whether the Doctor succeeded in defeating the Quarks on that occasion. The Quarks were also mentioned, and mocked viciously, in the Doctor Who Unbound audio play Exile.
The Quarks can also be seen on the VHS cover of the The Five Doctors, although they did not appear in the story because they were drafted out at an early stage. They were replaced by a Raston Warrior Robot that was encountered by The Third Doctor.
Additional information on the Quarks can be found in:
- Harris, M. The Doctor Who Technical Manual 1983. Severn House London/J. M. Dent Pty Ltd Boronia/Australian Broadcasting Corporation Publishing, Sydney.
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[edit] Raston Warrior Robot
The Raston Warrior Robot was found in the Death Zone on Gallifrey, it had the ability to move faster than lightning and was capable of taking out a troop of Cybermen (The Five Doctors). According to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, the robots were built by an ancient race, older than the Time Lords, who were ultimately destroyed by their own weapons. However, the novel Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles claims that this is just false advertising on the part of their manufacturers. It uses atomic radiation as a power source, drawing it from the atmosphere and locks onto electrical impulses in the brain of its victim, but can become confused if it meets two beings with the same brain pattern. Another of these robots appears in the Past Doctor Adventure World Game, also by Dicks.
[edit] Robot
In The Robots of Death, there were three types of slave Robots with an unknown general name on an unnamed planet that has great mineral wealth trapped in the sands of its surface. The are three types of robot are the basic model (D for dumb) which follows orders but does not speak; the Voc which is capable of speech; and the Super Voc which has superior intelligence so it can order other robots.
