Roboid

Roboids are toy robots from the IDW portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Ignore the guy in the middle.

Manufactured and sold by the former Decepticon entrepreneur Demus on Tebris VII, Roboids are adorable mechanical pets that are popular with organic races throughout the galaxy. Roboids with forms resembling Earth horses are called Equinoids.

Named Roboids include:

• Beak
• Bolt
• Brace
• Buck
• Clutch
• Sprint

Fiction

IDW Generation 1 continuity

Demus captured and lobotomized Transformers with beast modes and sold them to mechanoid-hating organics as Roboid torture dolls upon which they could vent their frustrations. Animals As a cover story, Demus claimed he branched out into making Roboids when he noticed that his domestic appliances sold better when they looked like they had faces. He said that the toy pets—with a limited battery life, a few limited phrases on a sound chip and some glow-in-the-dark panels—were extremely successful. Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots

After a series of escapades involving Equinoids and Grimlock, the Scavengers tricked Fortress Maximus into believing the Roboids' lives were in danger and fled the planet in the Weak Anthropic Principle—but not before Spinister left instructions on how to undo the damage Demus had wrought on the Roboids. They were subsequently brought aboard Maximus's ship, to be taken to a place with better equipment and repaired. Animals

The Roboids were brought to Luna One, where Cerebros was able to use his expertise to slowly cure the Roboids one by one of their domestication. Ten to Midnight