Francis described himself as Corsi's "famulus" rather than a slave. In 1973, KUKA created its own industrial robot FAMULUS. The main artist was one Famulus (or Fabulus according to some sources). Sorbl is an owl and Clothahump's second famulus. The black-tufted gerbil ("Gerbillus famulus") is distributed mainly across the southwestern Arabian Peninsula. Deutsch also played the antihero Famulus in Paul Wegener's "" in 1920.