A Superman robot nicknamed "Ned", presumably the same one programmed to protect Lois, was employed as Krypto's caretaker. Believing that Krypto was too dangerous to have around, Superman confined him to the Fortress of Solitude. 2) #170, Jeph Loeb wrote a story where, in defending Lois Lane from certain death, Krypto almost killed Mongul by ripping his throat out. One particular robot (programmed to protect Lois) was particularly difficult to get rid of.
Once Dominus had been defeated, Superman had most of the robots destroyed.
Their job was to protect mankind (aggressively if necessary) and attend to crises beyond Superman's reach. The Superman robots were also given a small degree of sentience, making each one an autonomous agent of the Man of Steel. These modern Superman robot's powers included super-strength, flight, and heat vision, but were inferior to Superman's own powers. However, unlike the pre-Crisis Superman robots, these automata were not realistic androids capable of passing for the real Superman, but instead were obviously mechanical, with metallic bodies that possessed no artificial skin. During the period where Superman (under the control of Dominus) felt he must police the entire earth, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week he built an army of Superman robots (created in his own image, all wearing the famous "S" shield but wearing variations of the Red, Blue and Yellow costume). The notion of Superman robots was reintroduced for post-Crisis comic continuity in a late 1990s storyline. In the early 1970s, the Superman comics largely abandoned the use of Superman robots as part of a change in the books' tone and writing style the excuse given in the comics was that Earth's pollution levels and artificial radiation had rendered Superman's robots unusable. The Crandalls were really robots who only pretended to adopt the baby so that their master Superman could take custody of the child.
and Mrs Crandall" adopt Bizarro's human-looking infant son who had wandered into Midvale orphanage. For example, in one 1960 Superman story, "Mr. Also while not Superman robots per se, Superman had other machines who could pass for human. There was also Supergirl and Linda Lee robots so that Superman's teenage cousin could be a hero while at the same time seemingly be at class. Nearly all of these robots were either deactivated or converted into adult-sized robots when Superboy grew up to become Superman. The idea of Superman robots were extended into Superboy stories of the period as well, where it was revealed that Superboy also possessed robot duplicates of himself (both as Superboy and as Clark Kent). Other Superman robots had other names, including Robot Z, Robot X-3, and MacDuff. One notable Superman robot was named Ajax, also known as Wonder Man. These robots each possessed a fraction of the Man of Steel's powers, and were sometimes used to substitute for him on missions (such as those where kryptonite was present) or for the purposes of protecting his secret identity (to that end, Superman also possessed a few Clark Kent robots). Superman robots played a particularly dominant role in late 1950s and 1960s era Superman comics, when readers were first introduced to Superman possessing various robot duplicates.
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