About

Emmy The Robot is a webcomic written and drawn by Dominic Cellini about an android nanny, or "Nandroid," named Emmy. In the comic, this innocently naive character hopes to make the best of her new life as the caretaker for the Delaire family. The webcomic has led to a growing fandom, most noticeably on 4chan.

History

Dominic Cellini posted the first official chapter of Emmy The Robot on his Twitter^[1] account on July 20th, 2019, right after her character reveal,^[2] and published new chapters from then onwards, as well as on Instagram.^[3] The tweet featuring Emmy's character design (shown below) received over 1,100 likes and 197 retweets in over one year. Starting April 5th, 2020, he also uploaded every chapter linked to the narrative plot on Webtoons^[4] for easier readability.

Plot

The story revolves around Emmy, a newly assembled and educated gynoid robot, purpose built to be a nanny/maid. Chapters 3 to 14 focus on Sterling Robotics' (Emmy's creator company) lore and its methods of formation and marketing, while chapters 16 and beyond focus on the daily life of Emmy, one of several Nandroids in an elite district, and how she serves the Delaire family and cares for their daughter Madeline. Things take a turn when she has a malfunction and gets sent back to Sterling Robotics to be checked up. While the technicians debate on what to do with her, Emmy overhears that she may be sent to be dismantled and further examined, and escapes, ending up in the neighboring city of Dupont where she meets a girl named Darcy Boyle. Darcy offers help in solving Emmy's malfunction and help return her to the Delaires. Most of the webcomic's humor comes from the confrontation of the machine-like reasoning of the Nandroids to everyday events.

Reception

The silly and wholesome adventures of Emmy attracted a considerable number of fans on the social medias of Dominic Cellini and the official Emmy The Robot pages on Twitter (with over 39,600 and 4,800 followers respectively) and Instagram (with over 223,000 and 301,000 followers respectively), Patreon (having more than 2,500 members, with over 1,000 being paying ones) and Webtoons (with over 256,000 followers and a score of 9.72/10 by March, 2025).

Fandom

The Nandroid universe caught the attention of many 4chan members, who were responsible for a lot of the fan art, both of Emmy and other official characters and of original Nandroid characters. The amount of fan art justified the creation of imageboards on Booru.org^[5], for all related art, and on Shimmie2^[6] exclusively for safe-for-work art. There's a wiki^[7] with information about both the canon and fanon content. Some fans have dedicated themselves into creating noteworthy content such as a fandub created by Anthony LoGatto^[8], officially produced and supervised by Dominic Cellini himself, and an annual fan magazine called the Nanzine^[9] by JumboG, where multiple fans collaborate with their art, stories and articles about the comic and the community since 2024.

Part of this enthusiasm can be attributed to the nature of Nandroids, their simple yet appealing doll-like appearance attracting the attention of people who consider them ideal waifus, and to the comic's universe taking place in an alternate reality, with more advanced robotics, with the social intricacies and moral dilemmas of owning sentient robots that are usually treated as property being present.

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