Antroids (also spelled ant-droids) are tiny, tiny mechanical creatures that infest Cybertron; they are noted for invading picnics and luncheons on the planet's surface and for their large cyber-hives. They are notoriously easy to lead.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Megatron announced that Starscream couldn't lead antroids to a picnic. Moments later Starscream proved him right by failing to take command of the Decepticons. More than Meets the Eye, Part 3

Shattered Glass

While trying to scare Scoop by doing a ghostly impression, Whisper claimed that antroids would devour Scoop's optics and razor-snakes would constrict his mechanisms. Do Over

Beast Wars: Uprising

Gnashteeth owned an ant-droid farm during his time as an overseer on the D.E.D. plant, and frequently watched their activities as he philosophized. Identity Politics Their ability to metabolize Energon without energon cubes provided Gnashteeth–now Megatron–with the inspiration for the Beast Upgrade. Later, the newly created Formikon, as the first successful subject of the Upgrade, was formatted with an ant-droid as his alt-mode. Not All Megatrons

Notes

• While the Beast Wars: Uprising ant-droids were never officially illustrated, Uprising artist Christopher Colgin drew a scene of Gnashteeth observing his ant-droids and posted it to DeviantArt.[1]