Device or Vehicle

Sentinels
Nick Name
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Creator or Inventor
Dr. Bolivar Trask
Owner or Possessor

Fringe Anti-Mutant Groups

United States Government

Wild variants not owned by any organization.
Function or Uses
Mutant Hunting Androids
Size
Varies with design.
Weight
Varies with design.
Special Properties
Typically large semi-intelligent androids designed to detect genetic anomalies and adapt to a wide variety of conventional and unconventional attacks.

Occasionally variations in design result in super-intelligent self-motivated designs.
Regularly Appearing

Uncanny X-Men

X-Factor

X-Men Vol. 2
First Appearance
X-Men Vol. 1 #14 (Nov. 1965)
Creator
Stan Lee & Jack Kirby
Origin
Convinced mutants posed an inevitable threat to humanity, anthropologist Dr. Bolivar Trask along with a small group of researchers hired a large team of cyberneticist, roboticist and engineers to develop and construct the robots known as Sentinels.

Trask publicly revealed his mutant hunting robots during a televised debate with leading mutant expert Professor Charles Xavier (Professor X).  The Sentinels overcame their programming and rebelled against their human master, determining the only means to protect humanity from mutants would be to enslave them all.

The Sentinels were initially destroyed by the X-Men but the design and programming has been duplicated various times by different groups, and including Sentinels themselves, namely the Master Mold, Nimrod and Bastion.