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|name=Bending units
|image=[[File:Olympic grade benders (male).png|225px]]
|image text=Olympic grade benders
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|first appear={{e|1ACV01}}
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'''Bending units''' are [[robots]] built by [[MomCorp|Mom's Friendly Robot Company]] for the main purpose of bending metal for constructive purposes. Like many devices of the [[20th century]], however, these robots have many capabilities aside from their main function, and other robots, such as [[Robo-Rooter]], are capable of bending while having other primary functions. 

== Variations and cost ==

Purpose built benders are known to come in many varieties; model #22 for instance has at least two finish colour options: gold and fog hat grey. These units are assembled by [[Bender's mother|robotic arms]]. While at least 994 models of bending unit exist, the only unit with a confirmed model number is the aptly named model #22 unit [[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], who, like units of most of the other first 994 models, has been recalled. These robots most likely come in so many varieties to provide higher quality additional features to different industries, and to allow the customer to choose more compact or higher powered models, and choice depends on whether the item needing bending is a wire hanger, an [[Unbendable girder|"unbendable" girder]], or something in-between.
 
Bending units are fairly inexpensive; the overall price is a meager $19.95, you can buy one for $30, then there's a $10 rebate and when you're done with it you can turn in the head for the 5 cent deposit. Of course, while a bending unit can be owned, others are free to wander the streets, vote, and be charged and jailed for crime.

[[File:Olympic grade benders (female).png|thumb|left|[[Fembot|Female]] bending units.]]

== Genders ==
As with most robot classes, there are both [[manbot|male]] and [[fembot|female]] bending units. The main difference between the two is the type of oil used, and the apparent design of the robots to emulate the [[humans|human]] sexes (i.e. fembots tend to have long eyelashes, higher voices, and a somewhat more feminine physique than manbots).

Female bending units are much weaker than male, and they have a separate class in the [[Olympics]] for bending. Working female bending units generally bend simpler constructions, such as clothes hangers, leaving the heavier work to the males.

== Functions ==

[[File:Bending Unit construction.png|thumb|[[Bender Bending Rodriguez|A bending unit]] is constructed on the assembly line.]]
[[File:Bending School.png|thumb|All bending units are programmed into the art of bending in a "Bending School" in the assembly line.]]

While a bending unit's main function is to bend girders, they can also have many secondary functions, either from when they were originally built, or from being installed or learned afterward. A list of some possible secondary functions are listed [[Bender Bending Rodriguez#Bender's Functions, Attachments, and Accessories|here]].

Like many [[robot]]s, bending units have seemingly [[humans|human]] features in their personality. While [[Bender]] has argued that they do not have feelings, major anecdotal evidence has proved this wrong, and they even seem capable of love, both of other robots and [[robosexuality|of humans]]. They do not, however, have a sense of taste. Despite their lack of a sense of taste, in "[[Benderama]]", [[Bender]] chugged a bathtub full of water converted to alcohol. He remarked that it tasted "like fine cogniac with a hint of aged scrotum," This, however, could have been a joke. Like other robots, bending units need [[alcohol]] to function, or they will break down, similarly to the human behavior when ''drinking'' alcohol. Bending units also seem to have a generally abusive personality, easily falling into abuse of [[tobacco]], [[electricity]] and partying.

== Construction ==

Bending units are built on an assembly line in a factory, with the mechanical arms gaining the role as their "mother". 

They go through different stages as they move along the line, starting out as small, baby-like robots and growing into adult-sized units, with the aid of the mechanical arms.  While they are in their baby stage, they must be inspected to make sure that there are free of defects, and if they do have a defect, the unit must be recycled {{et|6ACV06}}.

=== Profession programming ===
After their body is in the finalized, adult stage, they are programmed into the art of bending by inputting data from a computer by the "Bending School". After this, their mind grows out of their baby stage and they are able to speak properly like adults - they are complete.

== Characters ==
*[[Angle-ine]]
*[[Bender Bending Rodríguez]], model #22
*[[Flexo]]
*[[Billy West (character)|Billy West]]
*Possibly one of the [[Whalers on the Moon]]

== Additional Info ==
<gallery>
File:Bending Unit heads.png|Possible heads 
File:Bending Unit recall.png|Recall notice
</gallery>

=== Trivia ===
*In "[[Attack of the Killer App]]" it is revealed by [[Flexo]] that bending units are dangerously outdated. They overheat, they are {{w|radioactive}} and they cause {{w|erectile dysfunction}}.
* The basic model is represented as a  [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|primary]] and [[Flexo|secondary]] character. A [[Billy West (robot)|tertiary]] character is built with an identical casing and voice, but is supposedly not a bending unit.

=== Quotes ===
{{q|
<poem>'''[[Professor Farnsworth|Prof. Farnsworth]]''': Your standard bending unit is made of an iron-osmium alloy. But Bender was different. Bender had a point-04% nickel impurity.
'''Bender''': [crying] It's what made me me.</poem>
<poem>'''Bender''': It's hopeless. We might as well turn in my head for the five cent deposit.
'''[[Fry]]''': No way! I'm not letting my best friend get recycled. Not for five cents, not for five hundred cents!</poem>
}}

=== Appearances ===
:''As [[Bender]] appears in every episode and comic, only episodes with other units and references to them are noted here.''
*{{e|1ACV01}}
*{{e|2ACV06}}
*{{e|2ACV07}}
*{{e|3ACV06}}
*{{e|3ACV17}}
*{{e|4ACV13}}
*{{e|4ACV15}}
*{{e|6ACV03}}
*{{e|7ACV01}}

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