Droid (Star Wars)

In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. The term is a clipped form of "android", a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. The word "android" itself stems from the New Latin word "androīdēs", meaning "manlike", itself from the Ancient Greek ἀνδρος (andrós) (genitive of ἀνήρ (anḗr), "man (adult male)" or "human being") + -ειδής (-eidḗs), itself from εἶδος (eîdos, "form, image, shape, appearance, look").
Writer and director George Lucas first used the term "droid" in the second draft script of Star Wars, completed 28 January 1975. However, the word does have a precedent: science fiction writer Mari Wolf used the word in her story "Robots of the World! Arise!" in 1952. It is not known if Lucas knew of this reference when he wrote Star Wars, or if he came up with the term independently.
The word "droid" has been a registered trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd since 1977.
==List of droid characters==
Name 	Portrayal 	Description
2-1B 	Voice: Denny Delk (The Empire Strikes Back) 	Medical droid in The Empire Strikes Back that tends to Luke Skywalker in the bacta tank after the Wampa attack on Hoth, and replaces Luke's hand. A 2-1B droid also serves as medical droid to Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith, and can be seen in the Star Wars Rebels animated series.
4-LOM 	Chris Parsons (The Empire Strikes Back) 	Protocol droid with insectoid features, 4-LOM is among the Bounty Hunters who answer Darth Vader's call to capture the Millennium Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. In the Legends continuity it is Jabba the Hutt that upgrades 4-LOM's programming, turning him into a full-fledged bounty hunter, and partners him with fellow bounty hunter Zuckuss. Teaming up for many years, 4-LOM and Zuckuss join the Rebel Alliance for a time, even having aspirations of mastering he Force. 4-LOM would lose these aspirations and affiliations after being badly damaged by Boba Fett and having his memory erased, restoring him to a cold calculating bounty hunter. The first 4-LOM action figure was misidentified as "Zuckuss" in Kenner's original Star Wars action figure line.
8D8 	Various puppeteers (Return of the Jedi)
Voice: Matt Berry (The Book of Boba Fett) 	Torture droid working for Jabba the Hutt in Return of the Jedi, and later worked for Boba Fett when the latter ascended to power. A Kenner action figure was created for this droid during their original Return of the Jedi line.
0-0-0 (a.k.a. Triple-Zero) 	 	Protocol droid designed to specialize in etiquette, customs, translation and torture. Structurally similar to C-3PO. An associate of Doctor Aphra and BT-1, the droid is first featured in the Marvel Comics series Star Wars: Darth Vader and is now heavily featured in the ongoing Doctor Aphra series.
AP-5 	Voice: Stephen Stanton (Rebels) 	An RA-7 protocol droid from the Clone Wars, serving with the Galactic Republic as a navigator; later tasked with inventory duties by the Empire, before C1-10P/Chopper encounters him in the Rebels episode "The Forgotten Droid". Acts as a C-3PO-like counterpart to Chopper in Rebel service, and assists Phoenix Squadron in finding a new base on Atollon, before The Bendu forces both Rebels and Imperials off Atollon in the episode "Zero Hour".
AZI-3 	Voice: Ben Diskin (The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch) 	Medical droid serving the cloners of Kamino who helps uncover the secret of Order 66 in The Clone Wars.
Mister Bones 	 	Rebuilt B1 battle droid introduced in Aftermath, serves as loyal—if homicidal—bodyguard to Temmin "Snap" Wexley. In the comic Poe Dameron #13, Snap carries Mister Bones' "personality template" with him for good luck, and temporarily loads it into another droid to protect Poe Dameron.
BB-8 	Dave Chapman and Brian Herring (Episodes VII-IX)Voice: Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz (Episodes VII-IX) 	Poe Dameron's astromech droid in the sequel trilogy. BB-8 has a spherical body with a small head that balances on top, and moves by rolling around.
BB-9E 	Voice: Ken Watanabe (The Last Jedi) 	Black plated BB-series astromech droid in the service of the First Order in The Last Jedi.
BD-1 	Voice: Ben Burtt (Jedi: Fallen Order) 	Small droid formerly in the possession of Jedi Master Eno Cordova, who encounters and befriends Cal Kestis on the planet Bogano. After revealing a message from Cordova about a Jedi Holocron containing a list of Force-sensitive children, BD-1 joins Cal in his quest to find the Holocron and hopefully restore the Jedi Order, becoming a member of the Stinger Mantis crew.
B2EMO (a.k.a Bee-Two or Bee) 	Voice: Dave Chapman (Andor) 	Maarva Andor's loyal droid. Bee experiences malfunctions such as vocal stuttering and data lags. A groundmech salvage assist unit that served the Andor family for years including Cassian Andor.
BT-1 (a.k.a. Bee-Tee) 	 	Blastomech droid, an assassin droid designed to look like an Astromech droid with a variety of hidden built-in assault weapons. An associate of Doctor Aphra and 0-0-0, the droid is first featured in the Marvel comic series Star Wars: Darth Vader and is now heavily featured in the ongoing Doctor Aphra series.
C1-10P (a.k.a. "Chopper") 	Voice: Dave Filoni (Rebels, Forces of Destiny, Ahsoka)
Matt Martin (Rogue One) 	Astromech droid with a cantankerous, "pranking" form of behavior aboard the rebel freighter Ghost in Star Wars Rebels. Chopper later reappears in Rogue One in the Great Temple of Masassi on Yavin 4, and so does the Ghost itself and Hera Syndulla (who is mentioned only as a General of the Rebellion). Chopper appears in live action in Ahsoka.
C-3PO 	Anthony Daniels (Episodes I-IX, Rogue One, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ahsoka)Voice: Anthony Daniels (The Clone Wars, Rebels, Forces of Destiny, Resistance)	Protocol droid created by Anakin Skywalker who appears in all nine main Star Wars films and Rogue One.
 	Voice: Dave Filoni (The Clone Wars) 	C1-series astromech droid that helps Ahsoka Tano when Order 66 is issued in The Clone Wars. He is destroyed by clone troopers looking to execute Ahsoka.
 	Voice: J. J. Abrams (The Rise of Skywalker) 	Small droid previously owned by the Sith mercenary Ochi, who is found and reactivated by BB-8 in his old ship. He is shown to be very excitable and follows BB-8 wherever he goes, wanting to be just like him. He can also speak, although very briefly and stammering.
 	Voice: Richard Marquand (Return of the Jedi), Mark Hamill (The Mandalorian) 	Torture droid working in Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi, that assigns roles for R2-D2 and C-3PO during their brief tenure under Jabba's ownership.
FX-7 	 	Medical droid assistant to 2-1B on Hoth. An FX-7 figure was produced for Kenner's Empire Strikes Back action figure line in 1980.
GA-97 	Voice: David Acord (The Force Awakens) 	Servant droid at the castle of Maz Kanata, aligned with the Resistance, that informs them of the missing BB-8's presence at the castle, allowing them to mobilize their forces.
G-G 	 	R4 astromech droid that helps Ahsoka Tano when Order 66 is issued in The Clone Wars. He is destroyed by clone troopers looking to execute Ahsoka.
Gonk droid (a.k.a. GNK power droid)	Rusty Goffe, Latin Lahr, Jack Purvis, Kenny Baker, Kiran Shah, Raymond Griffiths, Arti Shah, Ivan ManzellaVoice: Ben Burtt 	Boxy, rectangular-shaped droid that walks very slowly. It is literally a bipedal, walking power generator. After appearing in the Jawas' sandcrawler in the original 1977 Star Wars film, a "Power Droid" figure was produced for Kenner's Star Wars action figure line in 1978. A Gonk droid is also featured in the "Blood Sisters" episode of Rebels, and Rogue One. Other appearances of the droid include in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Episode V), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (Episode VI), Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (Episode I), Star Wars: Attack of the Clones (Episode II), and in Star Wars: The Bad Batch, in which the droid was affectionately nicknamed "Gonky".
HK-47 	Kristoffer Tabori 	Within the Star Wars Legends continuity, HK-47 is a humanoid soldier robot, designed as a violent killer, which first appeared in the 2003 video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
Huyang 	Voice: David Tennant (The Clone Wars, Ahsoka) 	Huyang is an ancient droid who for millennia oversaw Padawan training of lightsaber construction for the Jedi Order.
IG-11 	Voice: Taika Waititi (The Mandalorian) 	Bounty hunter and assassin droid who briefly teams up with the Mandalorian to find and kill the Child. However, he is then betrayed and destroyed by the Mandalorian, who wanted to retrieve the Child alive. He is later rebuilt and reprogrammed by Kuiil]] to serve as an ally of the Mandalorian. During the group's fight with Moff Gideon's Imperial Remnant, IG-11 looks after the Child and later treats the Mandalorian when he is injured, before sacrificing himself and activating his self-destruct mechanism to allow the others to escape.
IG-88B 	Voice: Matthew Wood (Forces of Destiny) 	Bounty hunter and assassin droid introduced in The Empire Strikes Back, summoned aboard the Executor by Darth Vader in his search for the Millennium Falcon. IG-88 also appears in the Forces of Destiny animated series, attempting to capture Leia Organa and Sabine Wren. In the Legends continuity, there are four IG-88 assassin droids created for Project Phlutdroid by Holowan Laboratories, designated A, B, C and D. IG-88B and C are destroyed by Boba Fett shortly after Vader's bounty on the Millennium Falcon, while D was destroyed by Legends character Dash Rendar on Ord Mantell. The last surviving model, IG-88A, uploads his consciousness into the second Death Star in an attempt to take over all droids in the galaxy, just prior to the Battle of Endor. Ralph McQuarrie's production sketches show a sleeker design than the droid that appears in The Empire Strikes Back and were later used as the model for the IG-RM Thug droids in Star Wars Rebels. The term "IG-88" is not the original name for the character, as the Empire Strikes Back script calls the character a "chrome war droid", and during production it was called "Phlutdroid". The production puppet consisted of recycled props from A New Hope, including the Mos Eisley cantina drink dispenser as IG-88's head.
General Kalani 	Voice: Gregg Berger (The Clone Wars, Rebels) 	A Separatist tactical droid who served in the Clone Wars. He led his forces to take over and occupy the planet Onderon. His forces clashed with a band of rebels trained by some Jedi and led by Saw Gerrera to free the planet from Separatist control. Unable to thwart the uprising, Kalani and the remnants of his forces evacuated to the planet of Agamar. He and his troops managed to survive and hide there, resisting a shutdown order issued to the entire droid army after the Clone Wars ended. Kalani later encountered Captain Rex, Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus and Zeb Orrelios, who visited the planet for battle supplies, and after a battle with them, ultimately chose to help them fend off the oppressive Galactic Empire. However, he declined to join the rebellion because he believed the odds of their cause seemed too great.
K-2SO 	Alan Tudyk (Rogue One, Andor) 	Imperial security droid stolen and reprogrammed by the Alliance in Rogue One. His appearance makes him useful when infiltrating Imperial installations and outposts, but as a result of his reprogramming, he has a tendency to speak his thoughts bluntly and tactlessly. He is destroyed by stormtroopers whilst protecting Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor during the Rebel Alliance's raid on the Imperial data storage facility at Scarif to steal the Death Star schematics.
L0-LA59 "Lola" 	 	Droid companion to a young Princess Leia in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
L3-37 	Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Solo: A Star Wars Story) 	Trusted right-hand female pilot droid of Lando Calrissian, and the original co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon, L3-37 is a no-nonsense robot revolutionary who frees the droids in the spice mines of Kessel. On one occasion, when Lando asks if she needs anything from outside the cockpit, she quips "equal rights".
ME-8D9 	 	An "ancient protocol droid of unknown manufacture" that resides and works as a translator at Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana in The Force Awakens (2015).
NED-B 	Dustin Ceithamer (Obi-Wan Kenobi) 	Silent loader droid working with Imperial defector Tala Durith in Obi-Wan Kenobi.
OOM-9 	 	Command battle droid that led the Trade Federation's droid army during the invasion of Naboo in The Phantom Menace. During the invasion, he is promoted from captain to commander and serves under Nute Gunray, Darth Maul and Darth Sidious as their primary contact with the battle droid ground forces. His capture of Naboo's capital city of Theed and the underwater Gungan capital of Otoh Gunga are successful, which earns the praises of Nute Gunray. Eventually, OOM-9 leads the battle droids against the Gungan Grand Army, who are soon defeated by his forces but are ultimately freed in the end when Anakin Skywalker destroys the droid central control computer operating from the Trade Federation battleship.
PZ-4CO 	 	Droid introduced in the 2015 young adult novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry to whom Leia Organa dictates her memoirs. PZ-4CO also appears in The Force Awakens.
Q9-0 (aka "Zero") 	Voice: Richard Ayoade (The Mandalorian) 	Droid member of Ranzar Malk's crew, who attempts to release one of their associates, Qin, from a New Republic transport with the help of the Mandalorian. The crew secretly planned to abandon the Mandalorian once they released Qin, but he had anticipated their betrayal and leaves all of them behind on the transport, with the exception of Q9-0, who was left aboard the Mandalorian's ship, the Razor Crest; he was instead shot and destroyed by the Mandalorian after trying to kill the Child.
R1-J5 	Voice: Justin Ridge (Star Wars Resistance) 	Nicknamed "Bucket", is an R-series astromech droid owned by Jarek Yeager, the former Rebellion pilot. R1-J5 raced with Yeager, serving as his co-pilot before the pair retired to the Colossus refueling platform and began Jarek Yeager's Repair Station and formed Team Fireball.
R2-D2 	(Episodes I–VI, VII; consultant)Jimmy Vee (Episodes VII–IX, Rogue One)
Unknown (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi) 	Loyal R2 astromech droid that becomes attached to various characters throughout the continuity of the Skywalker Saga, notably accompanying three generations: Anakin and Luke Skywalker, and Rey Palpatine. R2 was also known for his companionship with the protocol droid C-3PO.
R2-KT 	 	Pink R2 astromech droid (identical to a R2-D2 but with pink accents instead of blue) that first appears in The Clone Wars and then briefly in scenes at the Resistance base in The Force Awakens. The droid is also a playable character in the video game Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. R2-KT was named in honor of seven year old Star Wars fan and cancer patient Katie Johnston.
R3-S6 	 	Replacement astromech droid for Anakin when R2 is lost in The Clone Wars. He is later revealed to be working as a spy for General Grievous, and subsequently destroyed by R2-D2 himself.
R4-P17 	 	Nicknamed "Arfour", this astromech droid accompanies Obi-Wan Kenobi on his mission to Kamino in Attack of the Clones, and is assigned to Kenobi throughout much of the Clone Wars (appearing in several episodes of The Clone Wars series). R4 is decapitated by Buzz Droids in Revenge of the Sith, and is replaced by R4-G9.
R5-D4 	 	Astromech droid originally sold to Owen Lars on Tatooine in A New Hope which immediately malfunctions and is replaced by R2-D2. The droid is currently owned by Din Djarin in hopes of exploring Mandalore. This droid also received an action figure release during the second wave of Kenner's original Star Wars action figure line.
R7-A7 	 	Astromech droid owned by Ahsoka Tano in The Clone Wars. When Order 66 is issued, he helps out Ahsoka, but is destroyed by clone troopers looking to execute her.
RA-7 ("Death Star droid") 	 	Originally appearing in the 1977 film Star Wars, these protocol droids are primarily used by Imperial officers as servants. They are also known as "Insect droids" or '"Death Star droids", due to the large numbers used aboard the Death Star. An RA-7 droid dubbed "Death Star Droid", was produced for Kenner's Star Wars action figure line in 1978. The RA-7 type droid named AP-5 has a recurring role in Star Wars Rebels, assisting Hera Syndulla's Phoenix Squadron.
TC-14 	John Fensom (The Phantom Menace)Voice: Lindsay Duncan (The Phantom Menace) 	Protocol droid who appears in the beginning of The Phantom Menace, serving drinks to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn aboard the Trade Federation's flagship Saak'ak.
Todo 360 	Voice: Seth Green (The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch) 	Cad Bane's techno-service droid in The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch.
U9-C4 	 	Timid astromech droid sent on a mission with D-Squad, an all-droid special unit in The Clone Wars.
WAC-47 	Voice: Ben Diskin (The Clone Wars) 	Over-excitable "pit droid" that is assigned to a special Republic group of droids, D-Squad, to steal an encryption module from the Separatists in The Clone Wars.
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