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I've made a handful - Mine were created for games so they have unique traits designed for a game system in mind.
One I made are a slime-ish people called Tarbies. They don't naturally have bones so they find/construct their own, they can crack and split in icy weather so they don't live in the cold, and they are born/buried in giant pools where their memories all sort of melt together.
(That last part is a significant problem which they are constantly dealing with)
They're really physically dense and hard to wound unless you hit an internal organ.
They naturally tend to copy people/animals/things that they find interesting which generally creeps people out - This also leads them to being exploited for labor or menial jobs as other races might pretend something is interesting to trick a Tarby into skillfully copying and completing tasks.
Narratively they were designed to be a parallel-ish-design to the setting's robots but alien to just about everyone else.