Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?
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Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows. - Frank Zappa
Injustice! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Injustice! (Score:5, Funny)
R. Daneel Olivaw (Score:5)
Re:R. Daneel Olivaw (Score:5, Insightful)
R. Daneel Olivaw rules them all, but they don't need to know that.
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The /. editors are too young to know about Asimov.
What about Hymie (Score:4, Insightful)
I am surprised no one has mentioned Hymie from the TV series Get Smart.
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And C-3PO. Where is HE?
Re:R. Daneel Olivaw (Score:5, Funny)
Re:R. Daneel Olivaw (Score:4, Funny)
Indeed. It is clear that they were works of much lower caliber.
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Come on, robot girl = best ever. So much for geeks reading books, apparently if their isn't in a movie or TV show it doesn't exist
Re:Injustice! (Score:4, Insightful)
It's for the best robot, not the best washing machine!
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Damn. I'd mod you as insightful if I weren't planning to comment further in this thread!
Re:Injustice! (Score:5, Funny)
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That is as may be, but the questions was:
Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or Android?
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Rachel then. Hottest robot ever, even in the same movie as Daryl Hannah
Re:Injustice! (Score:4, Insightful)
I always thought replicants were biological, just engineered biology. Hence J.F. Sebastian being a genetic designer, the need for Chew to work in a big warm coat in a cryogenic lab, and the discussion about recombinant therapy and mutation between Tyrell and Batty.
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Yeah, but what if he was talking about the novelisation of the movie?
There isn't a novelisation of the movie, at least not an official one. So there :-P
Re:Injustice! (Score:5, Funny)
Proclamation: Since HK-47 is the obvious choice, the meatbags are choosing a runner-up.
missing option (Score:2)
David from new prometheus trailer [youtube.com].
Re:missing option (Score:4, Insightful)
My guess:
A Weyland Industries ship explores or crash-lands on LV-426, finds the crashed bio-weapon ship, and, by the end of the movie, all crew members die a violent death.
One or two of them will be infected; the android/robot on board will observe this and a hidden shell script directing him to collect information about potential weapons will activate, and he will try to take an impregnated human back to earth in a stasis chamber. However, the human will realize the danger, and die in the struggle to prevent the Alien menace spreading back to earth.
Despite this, the android will still have the information and perhaps some specimens. He will then fly back to earth alone, or transmit the information back to Weyland HQ just before dying.
How could they missed (Score:5, Insightful)
R. Daneel Olivaw
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Re:How could they missed (Score:5, Interesting)
Although I loved R. Daneel Olivaw, I actually preferred Giskard.
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I came here to echo GP's sentiments, but you do have a point.
Re:How could they missed (Score:5, Insightful)
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R. Daneel Olivaw
Yes, though I liked him better before Asimov made him into an immortal, omniscient deity-robot.
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another vote for Daneel
Sexist Much? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:4, Informative)
In that movie Weird Science.
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously you mean Dot Matrix!
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:4, Interesting)
As long as you're making field hands and auto-mobile data banks, male's a usable form in a human scale world.
Other than as a lady's maid (to keep her male SO from wondering what she's doing with the valet), Lexa Doig as Andromeda's avatar notwithstanding, what do you think the primary use for "female" androids is likely to be, and how is THAT not sexist?
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:4, Insightful)
what do you think the primary use for "female" androids is likely to be, and how is THAT not sexist?
The same thing male robots are for. You assume that women wouldn't want to have guilt a risk free sex with a machine just like men would. You also seem to think the potential for sex would be a reason for people not to have female robots (embarrassment), which is pretty much the same reason that women had/have such a hard time getting into certain jobs.
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Re:Sexist Much? (Score:5, Funny)
Where are the female robots?
Check the kitchen!
WHOA!!
%flees%
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Yeah, Freya, the sexbot in a world where humans are extinct, from Charlie Stross's Saturn's Children is definitely worth a nomination.
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This poll is about robots, not "Pioneers in field x".
I don't think it matters that the (comparatively insignificant) population of female robots is not represented. I'm not sure any of those robots are of african or chinese descent either. Is this a racist poll too?
Re:Sexist Much? (Score:4, Insightful)
Machines don't have a gender. Also in Terminator 3 the robot had a female form for most of the time, so there is your fembot.
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Where are the female robots?
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. My vote would be for the Buffybot. That'll put marzipan in your pie plate, bingo!
Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Score:5, Interesting)
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What was the robot on lost in space called? The one always yelling "Warning! Warning!".
Don't forget Floyd... (Score:2)
Since I don't
Twiki (Score:4, Informative)
From Buck Rogers!
Bishop (Score:3)
Mitt Romney! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mitt Romney! (Score:5, Interesting)
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It's a bad dream. I keep thinking I'll wake up and Obama and Romney will be gone but every time I turn on the TV there they are. It's a living nightmare.
Bender's more fun (Score:2)
Bender may want to kill all of us "meat bags", but, as long as we keep the alcohol flowing, he'll party with us.
Marvin's more interesting, but he's a real downer.
Were my genitals "more aesthetically pleasing", as House put it, Data's "fully functional" hardware and mechanical endurance might make him my favorite "in person".
You Insensitive Meatbag! (Score:3, Interesting)
HK-47 from The Old Republic games.
Shepard Commander! (Score:3)
Well, I know that for all its (15 minute long) faults, Mass Effect 3 has been the ridicule of the nerd community for the past few months, but as I went through the Rannoch mission just this evening on my second session, I must say that Legion is pretty damn far up on the list.
Danger! (Score:4)
Where the hell is B9????
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and where is C3PO, and Pris, Rachael, or Roy Batty?
Classic robots (Score:4, Informative)
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I just had some confusion when I heard about Robby the Robot [wikipedia.org] and I mistook the option as an NES accessory.
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Actually, I was thinking of B.O.B. [slipperybrick.com] from The Black Hole [wikipedia.org].
ORAC? (Score:3)
Does he dream? (Score:2)
Fister Roboto (Score:3)
He's a fully integrated, multi-fetish artificial being. And the best part...
is that he's learning...
RE: "Who Is Your Favorite Fictional Robot or...?" (Score:2)
By parsecs
Marvin v. Bender (Score:4, Funny)
Man, that's an agonizing, Sophie's Choice type decision....
Some people just wanna watch the world burn.
Star Trek Did It Better (Score:2)
Instead how about Andrea (What Are Little Girls Made Of?), Rayna Kapec (Requiem for Methuselah), and all of the twins and triplet androids (Mudd's Women) -- except for Stella?
I don't mean to be sexist... (Score:2)
But, hell, my favorite robot is whatever model Terminator Cameron turns out to be (especially if it always looks like Summer Glau).
And, to those who claim Terminators are cyborgs, not robots:
(a) who cares, if they look like Summer
(b) Terminators aren't cyborgs, even though the movies state the opposite. They don't use living tissue for anything other than "clothes" - that is, a real cyborg needs its living tissue parts to survive. Terminators plainly don't - they're robots wearing skin.
My second fa
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Do you eat Sushi?
The reason I ask is....
I prefer to get my parasites the old fashioned way
I let my critters sleep with me in my bed
Marilyn MonRobot? (Score:2)
Molly Quinn! (Score:2)
Molly Quinn, from Castle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbkKpEvrwfk
what about (Score:2)
What? (Score:5, Funny)
No CmdrTaco option?
Why only robots from movies? (Score:2)
Rommie from Andromeda or Caprica Six (Score:2)
Both were played by hot Canadian chicks.
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don't forget the Eights. Grace Park is hawt!
Missing Robots (Score:3, Insightful)
It would be appreciated that when you do polls in the future that a little bit more effort is used when constructing them.
Regards
Slashdotgirl
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I picked bender... (Score:5, Insightful)
How could you miss... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Difficult (Score:4, Insightful)
This is the most difficult Slashdot poll ever.
lots of missing robots... (Score:5, Interesting)
six of one (tripping the rift)
johnny five (short circuit)
a tatchikoma (ghost in the shell)
and that little robot boy from A. I.
Caprica 6 (Score:2)
Caprica 6, the ultimate sex-bot!
What about R. Daneel Olivaw (Score:2)
You forgot... (Score:2)
I chose Marvin, but... (Score:2)
There are so many others:
Nuku-nuku.
Mahoro.
Flandre.
Rinkle and Junerin.
009-1.
Casshern.
The 19th Lord of Uranos' Kingdom's Tempest Domain, Drossel Juno Vierzehntes Heizregister Fürstin von Flügel. AKA Juno-XIV. And Gedächtnis.
Kusanagi Motoko. Do cyborgs count? Oh, but there are the Tachikoma.
Many, many missing options (Score:3)
This is one of those times when there are just way to many missing options.
No sense listing them all, but here is a nice collage of many popular robots and robot-like characters: http://laughingsquid.com/wheres-wall-e/ [laughingsquid.com]
If they were listed my vote would be for GIR and/or Tom Servo!
HK-47, MeatBag... (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HK-47
From the original Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.
Cowboy Neal ? (Score:2)
Statement: How short is the memory of sad meatbags (Score:3)
Trurl and/or Klapaucius (Score:2)
Missing Option - Maria... (Score:5, Informative)
...from Metropolis? One of, if not the first representation of a robot in film?
MST3k (Score:4)
No Tom Servo or Crow T Robot? I am disappoint.
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Oh, and I forgot to mention, my favorite robot is Johnny-5.
That really should be a option in the poll.
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no. There is no human involved, just fake flesh.
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The T-800 isn't a cyborg. The original base entity is a robot, that makes the flesh-covered version an android.
Cameron & Lucas both made the mistake of not knowing what is a cyborg and what is an android.
Android - The original base entity is a robot. Either flesh or another substance made to mimic flesh in some manner is added to conceal or enhance the robot. Examples: Lt. Commander Data, the T-800.
Cyborg - The original base entity is made out of flesh. Technological components are either added to o
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Agreed. '51 Gort's first appearance in the movie is a classic "Oh SNAP!" moment in cinema. That and the fact that he has no lines, but does all his talking with his death/disintegration beam and karate-chop-action. Oh yeah, and "There's no limit to what Gort could do. He could destroy the Earth."
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oh god I should know this one but just can't pull it up
and I'm either too lazy to right click google it
or
I'm gonna wait for that moment when I'm right at the brink of sleep and have that *oh hell yeah* moment
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Re:Ageism (Score:5, Informative)
Robby the Robot - Forbidden Planet - 1956
R2D2 - Star Wars - 1977
Marvin the Paranoid Android - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - 1978
The T-800 - Terminator - 1984
Bishop - Aliens - 1986
Lt. Commander Data - Star Trek: The Next Generation - 1987
Bender - Futurama - 1999
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Re:Bishop. (Score:4, Informative)
Actually it was "artificial person" in response to being referred to as "a synthetic."
(+1 Has No Life)