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A visual trope in science fiction materials: humanoid robots that look skeletal in design. They all have relatively thin limbs that are reminiscent of bones, and they usually lack "filling" in places where humans have only soft organs, like the abdomen. Such robots can be very obvious, with sinister, grinning skull-faces, a la the T-800 from The Terminator. Others are more subtle, often with fairly realistic faces. Some, such as the T-800s, are designed to be covered with "something", so they literally are robot skeletons. Examples of Skele-Bot 9000 include:

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  • A visual trope in science fiction materials: humanoid robots that look skeletal in design. They all have relatively thin limbs that are reminiscent of bones, and they usually lack "filling" in places where humans have only soft organs, like the abdomen. Such robots can be very obvious, with sinister, grinning skull-faces, a la the T-800 from The Terminator. Others are more subtle, often with fairly realistic faces. Some, such as the T-800s, are designed to be covered with "something", so they literally are robot skeletons. Examples of Skele-Bot 9000 include:
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  • A visual trope in science fiction materials: humanoid robots that look skeletal in design. They all have relatively thin limbs that are reminiscent of bones, and they usually lack "filling" in places where humans have only soft organs, like the abdomen. Such robots can be very obvious, with sinister, grinning skull-faces, a la the T-800 from The Terminator. Others are more subtle, often with fairly realistic faces. Obvious SkeleBots are meant to scare characters. Often, these are the cold, inhuman soldiers of the Big Bad. On the other hand, subtle SkeleBots are often presented (at least at first) as perfectly innocuous consumer devices, but they're meant to subtly creep out the audience. While there might be no mechanical need for the extra padding or housing necessary to keep a robot built on the human frame from looking skeletal, "not looking creepy" is a general design goal for consumer products, especially those with recognizable faces. Subtle SkeleBots with "intact" faces often lean as much towards the "moving corpse" nadir of the Uncanny Valley as Dem Bones. Some, such as the T-800s, are designed to be covered with "something", so they literally are robot skeletons. Examples of Skele-Bot 9000 include:
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