Robotman made his first live adaptation as a guest star on the Titans television series for DC Universe played by Jake Michaels.

[2] At the time, Drake didn't realize that there had been a previous character named Robotman, published in 1942-1953 during the Golden Age of Comic Books.

[4] Staton said he patterned Robotman's new body after a young John Byrne's fanzine contribution (Contemporary Pictorial Literature) of the robot character Rog-2000 "as a joke".

[6] Cliff Steele became Robotman, initially dubbed Automaton,[7] after the daredevil and race car driver was in an accident during the Indianapolis 500, destroying his body.

The Doom Patrol sacrificed their lives to Madame Rouge and General Zahl (who pushed the actual kill button) to save the small fishing village of Codsville, Maine.

Refusing to believe that Niles was dead, she formed this new team to search for him and took his place as leader, calling herself Celsius due to her heat-and-cold-based powers.

Near the end of Grant Morrison's creative run on the title, Robotman’s human brain was revealed to have been replaced with a CPU, making him a robot in reality.

This version of Cliff Steele is an adventurer and daredevil who agrees to be injected with experimental nanomachines designed to improve and repair his body.

When he is involved in a fatal car crash during a high-speed race, the nanomachines respond by creating a robotic body to encase and protect his still living brain.

After coming to terms with his new body, he becomes a freelance hero, assisted by a woman named Maddy, who was involved in the nanomachine project and blames herself for Cliff's condition.

Cliff was eventually persuaded to stop by Crazy Jane who helped to deconstruct him into a childlike robot body so that she could better emotionally heal him.

Remaining awake through the chaos, Zatanna magically summons Robotman and defends Wonder Woman and Detective Chimp from Insomnia's Sleepless Knights and Sleeping Queen.

It was equipped with electromagnetic feet that enables him to scale upon metal walls, heat coils in the palms capable of melting dense materials, and an oxygen tank for sustaining his brain.

After becoming human and destroying his body again, his new one was constructed by Keeg Bovo, who programmed it to unlock different upgrades whenever Robotman performs a good deed, such as self-duplication and elemental control.