Robotic life is a frequent topic in the works of Stanisław Lem. Lem's robots are most prominently featured in his two closely related and partly overlapping cycles, Fables for Robots and The Cyberiad.

The Cyberiad, sometimes subtitled Fables for the Cybernetic Age, is a series of satirical science fiction short stories by Polish writer Stanisław Lem published during 1964-1979. The first collected set of stories was originally published in 1965, with an English translation by Michael Kandel first appearing in 1974.