Movie robots to be remembered

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:47 AM EDT

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WALL-E, a robot left to clean up a trashed planet Earth, is rolling into theaters and into the hearts of moviegoers everywhere as he chases his love, the svelte EVE, across the galaxy. If the movie is the success Disney-Pixar hopes it will be, the star of the show will join a long list of memorable robots that have graced the silver screen.

Msnbc.com would like to know if Newsviners think any other robots (such as the "Westworld" robot or David in "A.I." ) deserve a spot on the list. What do you think is the most memorable movie 'bot of all time?

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srwhite

Cylons, don't forget the Cylons from the original TV series and feature film. Yes, the pilot had been released in theaters, thus it was a feature film. Check out YouTube for the trailer.

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#201 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 7:33 PM EDT

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Tab L. Uno from Utah

David from A.I. and D.A.R.Y.L. both replicas of young boys both of whom must confront emotions and the connect to most of human characteristic of all - human attachments and love. They of all these robots mentioned reflect the essence of humanity.

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#202 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:35 PM EDT

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Kathy A

I also think Johnny 5 definitely belongs on the list instead of the fembots and Maximillian from the old Disney movie The Black Hole

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#203 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:54 PM EDT

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Tripptales

Are you all forgetting Vincent Price's son-- Edward?

He was definitly built from the ground up!!!!!

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#204 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 11:57 PM EDT

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suresca

All these Robots and everyone forgot the lovable lovesick robot head from Lexx

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#205 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:31 AM EDT

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AI Researcher / Cognitive Scientist

Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the author of "2001: A Space Odyssey" in which the HAL-9000 computer was first introduced, has repeatedly tried to dispel the rumor that HAL's name was arrived at by taking the initials "IBM" and going back one letter of the alphabet in each position to arrive at "HAL." The late Sir Arthur tried for years to convince people this was not the case in interviews, articles, and videotaped discussions.

The definitive answer may be found in the book itself. "HAL" is in fact an acronym for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer." For proof of this, go to "Chapter 16: Hal" of the novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke (which begins on page 91 of my copy of the book) and you will find the explanation for Hal's name. It is discussed on the second page of the chapter, in my copy on page 92.

I believe Sir Arthur C. Clarke's comments on the subject and the text of the book itself should settle the question once and for all.

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#206 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:58 AM EDT

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AI Researcher / Cognitive Scientist

The intelligent, autonomous airborne vehicle in the recent movie "Stealth" -- a state of the art jet fighter in a near hypothetical future -- also qualifies as a cinematic robot. Its behavior is somewhat inconsistent and it doesn't have much of a personality, however, so it's a less attractive candidate than Robbie the Robot, for example, which appeared in "Forbidden Planet," "The Invisible Boy," and a number of episodes of television shows.

It should be noted that there was more than one Robbie. There was a robot suit worn by an actor in some scenes of Robbie's film and TV appearances. There was also a device -- a very simple robot, more or less, but not at all autonomous -- that appeared in some film scenes, or so I have been led to believe. That there was a Robbie the Robot suit I am quite sure. That there was also a simple machine is information that should be verified through independent sources.

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#207 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:14 AM EDT

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c0d3h4x0r

FemBots? Are you kidding me? What idiot picked that over "Number 5" from the Short Circuit movies?

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#208 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:23 AM EDT

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Dave-358090

Since others have started including TV robots...

Fembots were funnier and sexier in the Star Trek episode "I, Mudd"

Great Robots (Androids?) in "What are Little Girls Made Of?" and "Requiem for Methuselah."

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#209 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:48 PM EDT

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cjm-50

Questor from, The Questor Tapes movie and pilot for Tv show by Gene Roddenberry

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#210 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:06 PM EDT

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Johnny1+4

Johnny 5 at best, Totally skipped over that lovable robot. Fembots from Austin Powers? what a cop out.

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1 vote

#211 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:12 PM EDT

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Dean L. Kaufman

Gog (1954) in Technocolor and 3-D. Investigators at an underground research think tank investigate myterious deaths due to sabotage and have two research robots Gog and Magog turn on everybody still alive. The robots did not speak but they were deadly. This has not been released on DVD but you can find a copy of it on file sharing sites taken from either TBS or TNT years ago. It is a science fiction / horror classic. This movie will really creep you out.

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#212 - Tue Jul 1, 2008 12:30 AM EDT

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Bakkhos

Does no one remember Silent Running and Huey, Dewey and Louie? For lovability they must rank with R2-D2 particularly since the latter looks like a direct decendent of the former threesome.

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#213 - Wed Jul 2, 2008 7:17 PM EDT

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leland-365608

Everyone is talking about American movies and shows. Do you remember K9 who traveled with Doctor who ? there were two really because the original chose to remain on galifrey with Leila. The doctor built a replacement dog. He just reappeared on the new episodes with Sarah Jane smith.
On the BBC show The Prisoner there were white balloons that popped up from under the water and chased him down if he tried to escape the island . the talking toaster in red dwarf.

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#214 - Sat Jul 5, 2008 1:09 PM EDT

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Mark K "The Doctor"

Let's not forget the Robot in "Lost in Space"

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#215 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 12:54 AM EDT

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coiffed

I FOURTH Gypsy, Tom Servo, and Crow from MST3K. Best robots ever! And yes, there was a movie so no complaints about it being a tv show :P

Lisa from Weird Science could be considered a robot of sorts, as science created her out of goodness knows what, haha.

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#216 - Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:25 PM EST

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