塔罗斯（希腊语：Ταλως）是希腊神话中的金属巨人（Automaton）。该名义为“砍伐”或“太阳”。

塔罗斯的身世有三种版本。按赫西俄德的说法，宙斯曾创造了四代人类：黄金、白银、青铜、黑铁。这塔罗斯是个铜人，属于青铜一代（the bronze generation），历劫不灭，直到半神时代（Age of the Demigods）尚在人间。另一种观点认为它由火神赫淮斯托斯和独眼巨人铸造，送给克里特国王米诺斯。而史诗作者西尼松（Cinaethon）则指其为古克里特信仰中的太阳神，赫淮斯托斯反倒成了它的儿子。在某些方言中，talos等同于helios（希腊语指“太阳”），也算西尼松观点的一个注脚。米诺斯王的妻子帕斯菲（Pasiphae，代表月亮）可能是塔罗斯的女儿。

In Greek mythology, Talos (/ˈteɪlɒs/; Greek:Τάλως, Talōs) or Talon (/ˈteɪlɒn, ən/; Greek:Τάλων, Talōn) was a giant automaton made of bronze to protect Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. He circled the island's shores three times daily.

Alternatively Talos could be figured as a sacred bull. His bronze nature suggested to the author of Bibliothēkē that he may have been a survivor from the Age of Bronze, a descendant of the brazen race that sprang from meliae "ash-tree nymphs" according to Argonautica 4. The conception that Hesiod's men of the Age of Bronze were actually made of bronze is extended to men of the age of gold by Lucian for humorous effect.