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This article discusses recurring robot characters. For human recurring characters, see List of recurring human characters from Futurama. For all others, see List of recurring alien characters from Futurama.

Futurama's recurring robot characters:

Contents 1 Boxy 2 Calculon 3 Flexo 4 Kwanzaa Bot 5 Monique 6 Reverend Preacherbot 7 Roberto 8 The Robot Devil 9 The Robot Mafia 10 Robot Santa 11 Tinny Tim 12 URL 13 Hedonismbot 14 References

Boxy is a crude robot similar to the "Gonk" droid from Star Wars, who is capable of communicating only by 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.^[1] In the show All My Circuits, he is usually seen sleeping with or spying on Monique, Calculon's wife on the show. Boxy is frequently victimized by others, Calculon included, simply for his being an easy target. For example, Boxy is seen being thrown out of a hot air balloon by Calculon in the episode "Bend Her", and in "Crimes of the Hot", he is kicked onto his side by Bender and used as a podium of sorts. In "That's Lobstertainment!", Calculon threatens to have Boxy kill Harold Zoid if he doesn't win the Best Actor Oscar for his powerhouse performance in The Magnificent Three. Boxy backs up this threat by opening a slot on his side, revealing a small claw holding a gun.

Main article: Calculon

• Voice Actor: John DiMaggio

Like Bender, Flexo is a Bending-Unit 22 robot. Flexo's and Bender's serial numbers are 3370318 and 2716057 respectively; this gives both robots much amusement as both their serial numbers are expressible as the sum of two cubes: 3370318 = 119³ + 119³ and 2716057 = 952³ + (-951)³.

Flexo has a habit of speaking contrary to how he really feels, before correcting himself; this is seen most often when he slanders or insults an individual only to add "Nah, I'm just messin' with ya; you're all right." or something similar (this is heard in all the episodes Flexo appears in). In "Bendless Love", when Bender punches Flexo in the back of the head, he says "Thanks, I appreciate that," laughing, but then adding "Nah, I'm joshing you. That was quite annoying."

Flexo looks and sounds exactly like Bender with the exception of having a small triangular metal goatee (a spoof of Spock in the Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror") on his chin. He first appeared in "Lesser of Two Evils" when Fry accidentally runs him over with a 20th century gasoline-fueled car (a 1992 Latoura), and gives him "ass-whiplash". He becomes good friends with Bender, inspiring jealousy and suspicion from Fry, especially as Flexo often plays cruel jokes on him (though only as much as Bender does) such as shooting a jet of poisonous chlorine in Fry's face for no reason. Fry originally believes that Flexo is an evil twin of Bender and suspects that he will try to steal the crown from the Miss Universe pageant. However, it turns out that Bender is the one attempting to steal the crown and Flexo is 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 and goatee. When the police arrive at the scene, they mistake Flexo for Bender and, at the behest of Bob Barker, arrest him instead, sending him to a South American-Turkish prison.

In a scene deleted from 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, this 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 Planet Express crew (if not police) had identified the wrong robot. However it is also possible that Bender had previously scratched off his serial code and used Flexo's as cover.

In "Bendless Love", Bender briefly dates 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. Flexo is the only recurring robot to not appear in the episode "Crimes of the Hot".

Flexo's head is also seen briefly in the box of heads at the assembly line where Bender was built in the episode "Bendless Love".

Kwanzaa Bot first appeared in "A Tale of Two Santas", giving out the traditional Kwanzaa book, titled "What the Hell is Kwanzaa?!", and is more than 647 years old. He appears to be far less violent than Robot Santa, though is still a dangerous character when necessary.

Kwanzaa Bot reappeared alongside Chanukah Zombie and Robot Santa, making weapons and riding in a sleigh-like vehicle to fight the alien internet scammers in Bender's Big Score. He is voiced by Coolio.

• Voice Actor: Tress MacNeille

Monique is Calculon's co-star on the show All My Circuits. In the show her character is in love with Calculon, though she is also seen cheating on him with Boxy multiple times. In the episode "I, Roommate" it is revealed that she uses the metric system of measurement. In the episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV" Antonio Calculon, Jr. reveals that she has kept something secret from Calculon for two hundred years, but malfunctions before he can get any further.

She is said to be the first completed robot character on the DVD commentary for "Crimes of the Hot".

• Voice Actor: 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.^[2] His first major part, and his first appearance in an episode is in "Hell is Other Robots" where he tries to get Bender back on the right track. He also presides at Leela's wedding to Alkazar in "A Bicyclops Built for Two", Leela's wedding to Fry in "Time Keeps on Slippin'", Calculon's wedding to Bender (as Coilette) in "Bend Her", briefly speaks at Bender's "funeral" in "A Pharaoh to Remember", and Leela's wedding to the Robot Devil in "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". Preacherbot also presides over the funeral of Bender’s uncle Vladimir after he dies in the "The Honking". He fights violently with Bender in "Crimes of the Hot" when he insults a turtle that Bender had traveled all the way to Holland to save. His speech patterns, accent, and mannerisms are modeled on those of stereotypical African-American Evangelical preachers. In addition to preaching Reverend Preacherbot does have some knowledge of welding, which he uses to place robotology emblems on the bodies of his congregation members (and occasionally touch up seams).^[3]

• Voice Actor: David Herman

A criminally insane robot who appears to be some kind of stab-bot, although he claims: "I'm not crazy, I'm just not user-friendly!" His first line was "Gee, I've seen lines move faster in a sperm bank."^[4] His insane acts include targeting the same establishment for robbery three times in a row (apparently the first time was just to "case the joint and rob it a little"), killing other robots to provide a disguise and "practicin' my stabbin'."^[4] He is believed to have had a rather traumatic childhood (in "Insane in the Mainframe", he suggests that his mother often welded him to the wall as a form of punishment for "leaking transmission fluid" as he says "No mommy! Please don't weld me to the wall!" when he believes he is in danger which is similar to the pasts of Norman Bates and Francis Dolarhyde). His catchphrase is, "Ha-HAAAA!", yelled in an increasingly high pitch when he attempts to stab someone, or makes a stabbing gesture. This violent nature is enhanced by a body that Daxid X. Cohen and Matt Groening say is based on the shape of a tombstone.

He most notably appears in "Insane in the Mainframe" (which was also his debut episode) when Fry and Bender are implicated in one of his bank robberies.

He also appears briefly in "Obsoletely Fabulous". When Bender is in line to be upgraded at Mom's Friendly Robot Company, he sees Roberto in front of him. When Bender asks Roberto what he is doing there, Roberto says, "Parole officer says I gotta upgrade, or he won't give me back my stabbin' knife! Ha-HAAAA!" His last words before the upgrade are, "DEATH TO THE 1-X ROBOTS!" He is upgraded, and after the upgrade says, "I love those magnificent 1-X robots! The 1-X robots are my friends!" When questioned about the unusual change in attitude, he merely responds, "I'm past that... later, blood."

He appears momentarily in "Crimes of the Hot". When Bender kicks over Boxy and yells at all the robots to, "Shut up and listen to me, Bender", a pan shot of the crowd shows Roberto stabbing the robot who was shot by robot mobsters "Clamps" and "Joey Mousepad" ("Bender Gets Made"), whose arms are being held by two random robots.

• Voice Actor: Dan Castellaneta, Maurice LaMarche

The Robot Devil, referred to as Beelzebot by Leela at one point, lives in Robot Hell, which is hidden beneath the "Inferno" ride at the amusement park "Reckless Ted's Funland" in New Jersey. His function is to torment robots who have committed various sins, though it seems that this right only applies to those who practice Robotology. He kidnapped and intended to forever torment Bender after he briefly became involved with "Robotology" but then slid back into his former decadent and criminal habits ("Hell Is Other Robots"). Fry and Leela tracked Bender to Robot Hell and in accordance with "The Fairness in Hell Act of 2275", the Robot Devil was obliged to release Bender if Leela could best him in a fiddle contest. She could not outplay him, so she clubbed the Robot Devil with the fiddle, giving the trio a chance to escape.^[3]

The Robot Devil also played a major role in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" in which Fry makes a deal with the Devil to improve his holophonor skills. The Robot Devil exchanges hands with Fry and immediately regrets it, since Fry's human hands are vastly inferior to his own mechanical ones. He spends the remainder of the episode scheming and ultimately succeeding in reversing the trade.

The Robot Devil has extensive musical skills, taught in part by Mrs. Mellinger who also instructed Fry in the holophonor. The robot actor Calculon credits the Robot Devil for bestowing his "unholy acting talent".^[5]

The Robot Devil is voiced by Dan Castellaneta in "Hell Is Other Robots" and "The Devils Hands Are Idle Playthings" in what has been described as a "bravura performance" on his part.^[6] He has brief cameos in "A Tale of Two Santas", where Maurice LaMarche briefly voiced him, and "Crimes of the Hot".

The Robot Devil is briefly seen in Bender's Big Score, conducting the band that plays at Leela and Lars' wedding.

• Voice Actor: Maurice LaMarche (Donbot, Clamps), John DiMaggio (Joey Mousepad)

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 act against them, 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 robot mafia is apparently not very extensive; as in the episode "Bender Gets Made" the Donbot proclaims, "We're the robot mafia... the entire robot mafia".

• Donbot - The leader of the robot mafia, wears rings and a cape, he is the shortest of the three and is a stout robot.
• Joey Mousepad - A burly and almost awkwardly inarticulate goonbot wearing a computer-mouse necklace. He is also lacking in intelligence ("This guy's an ox! He's got oxen-like strength! Hey, he needs a nickname, right? Let's call him Clamps").
• Clamps - 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. He often uses catchphrases replacing certain words with "clamp(s)"; including once proclaiming "that's gotta clamp" after dropping an unbendable girder on Flexo's head in "Bendless Love".

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.

Though their most prominent appearance is in the episode "Bender Gets Made" they also make appearances individually or as a whole in various other episodes. The Donbot can be seen as a member of 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". Clamps and Joey make an appearance in "A Tale of Two Santas" where the Santa Bot is seeing who's been naughty; he shows the two kicking a human on the ground. He declares them naughty for kicking the human for protection money and declares the human naughty for not paying them the protection money.

In "Bendless Love" it is revealed that the robot mafia supports the bending robot union which is on strike at that time. Though they want their support of the union to remain unknown to others outside the union, they do take action to arrange the possible demise of scabs who flash their money around.

The three robots' names also appear in Robot Devil's Wheel of Robots, in "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings".

They are one of the countless crews and ships who fought to free Earth from the nudist scammers in Bender's Big Score.

• Voice Actor: John Goodman ("Xmas Story"), John DiMaggio ("A Tale of Two Santas", Bender's Big Score)

Robot Santa was created by Mom's Friendly Robot Company in the year 2801 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 invariably judges everyone to be naughty — even more unfortunately, he punishes "naughtiness" with death, leading him to go on destructive rampages across Earth every Xmas. As an example of his judgement, he deems the Mafia naughty for beating someone up for protection money and yet judges the victim equally as naughty for not paying their protection money. He even considers milk and cookies given to him as bribery. 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 to hurt or kill people, such as launching a bike at a young girl (from his unseen "bicycle gun"), and killing a grandfather by choking him to death with a chestnut. He even made the cheap pun "Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile!" He can't be destroyed by use of a logical paradox, unlike most robots, because he was built with "paradox absorbing crumple zones"; though paradoxes do cause his head to explode, another simply pops up from his chest.

Robot Santa resides in his death fortress on Neptune.^[7] A Santa sign that says "If you are taller than this, prepare to die!" is at the entrance. One of his arms is held out to his side, just above the height of an average dwarf Neptunian, not counting their hats. When anything walks past a buzz saw emerges from the hand. He 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. His fortress has robotic 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 "Xmas Story", and John DiMaggio in "A Tale of Two Santas" as Goodman was not available.^[8] DiMaggio reprised the role in Futurama: Bender's Big Score.

• Voice Actor: Tress MacNeille

A homeless child robot who idolizes 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. A common gag shows Bender kicking him, knocking him down, and breaking his crutch for a leg. He speaks with an English accent. In one episode he is seen assisting Bender with his work for the Robot Mafia. He operates an oilade stand. Making oilade is what he was programmed for, along with writing reverse letters on the front of the stand in a 'cute' manner. He appeared in the following episodes:

• "Xmas Story"
• "Bender Gets Made"
• "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV"
• "Mother's Day"
• "Less Than Hero"
• "Crimes of the Hot"
• "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings"
• Bender's Big Score

He was created by David X. Cohen, citing that the name was so "crummy" that they had to use it. In the DVD commentary, he celebrates when he sees Tinny Tim appear.

• Voice Actor: John DiMaggio

One of two police officers who regularly arrest characters of the show; often, but not always, including Bender. Massively built, armed to the teeth, and sometimes fitted with a violations printer, a siren, and a megaphone, his speech is peppered with blaxploitation catchphrases (e.g. "Awwww yeah", "you deadbeats are under arrest" and "it's a stone cold shame!"). He is partnered with the human Smitty, whom he may be attracted to in a romantic manner, in a parody of buddy-cop movie formulae. URL makes appearances in multiple episodes and his duties do not appear to be limited to a single location as he enforces Bender's parole on Pluto in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz". Officer URL was among the robots gathered onto Galapagos Island in "Crimes of the Hot" and his name appears on the Robot Devil's wheel in "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". One of URL's lines from "Space Pilot 3000" ("I'm gonna get twenty-fourth century on his ass!") is featured in the remix of the Futurama title theme played during the closing credits of Bender's Big Score.

URL, the original proposed name for Bender, is pronounced "Earl". It is derived from Uniform Resource Locator, a common Internet term.

A golden-colored robot always seen eating a bowl of grapes attached to his stomach. According to the Futurama DVD commentary, he was built by the tax-payer's dollars. The Hedonismbot makes several cameos, with his first line being "I apologize for nothing" when Bender reveals that he is the most prominent robot in causing global warming. He commissions Fry to write an opera in "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings". It is revealed in this episode that he has a servant named Djambi, who is also referenced twice in Bender's Big Score.

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Media	Episodes (by Broadcast Order) · Comic books · Video game · DVD movies
Main characters	Philip J. Fry · Turanga Leela · Bender B. Rodríguez · Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth · Doctor John Zoidberg · Hermes Conrad · Amy Wong
Recurring characters	Zapp Brannigan · Kif Kroker · Nibbler · Cubert Farnsworth · Calculon · Mom · Recurring human characters · Recurring robot characters · Recurring alien characters
Themes	Politics in Futurama · Religion in Futurama
Technology	Cryonics · Nimbus · Planet Express Ship · Robots in Futurama  · Suicide booth
Other	Planet Express Corporation · Chroniton · List of guest stars on Futurama · List of Futurama crew