Table: Enemy Robots (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are at least 12 different kinds of enemy robots the protagonists may confront. This is the third table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Enemy Robots

Roll 1d12

1. The Atomitomata
2. The Destructotomatons
3. The Hexidecimators
4. The Horrorobots
5. The Killometors
6. The Malmachines
7. The Mechanical Menaces
8. The Obliteratons
9. The RIPublic Robots
10. The Robo-bomb-bots
11. The Self-Destructons
12. The Technocutioners

Where Are the Robots?

I find it curious that in the first eight or ten years of the Flash Gordon comic strip, not a single robot makes an appearance. As far as I can tell, the first time a robot appears in any version of Flash Gordon is in the 1940 motion picture serial, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, which introduces the Annihilatons. I've made it to 7 September 1942 in the dailies and 4 February 1945 in the Sundays, and not a robot is to be seen. All of this causes me to wonder: Was the absence of robots in the comic strip deliberate, or was it an oversight? If the absence was deliberate, what was the reason? And who was the first artist to bring robots to the strip? I can't wait to find out...