Robots, androids and automatons
While the name robot was apparently first used by Karl Capek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), the concept of mechanical beings is a lot older. Naturally, when the time came that comic writers were looking for different origins for superheroes, robots were not overlooked.
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