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The Science Fiction Gallery - Robots

Thanks to Tim Mandese for his great idea on creating a robot page. He has a bet on about robots on TV and in films. So let us know if you can think of the names and "pedigrees" of robots on the little or big screen.

The rules are:

  1. No Cyborgs
  2. No computers
  3. No cartoon bots
  4. They have to be completely autonomous

    Oh, and if you're wondering why the Borg might have been qualified (as would Saberhagan's Berserkers if there were in film) since they may have started out as cyborgs, they are now a race of their own and they are no longer 50% biological (exception might be Hugh...but then we don't know, do we?). Anyway Tim's criteria is no Cyborgs.

    So far we have the following list:

      Names That Qualify
    1. Gort--The Day The Earth Stood Still
    2. R2D2--Star Wars
    3. C3PO--Star Wars
    4. Robbie--Forbiden Planet
    5. Data--Star Trek
    6. D.A.R.Y.L.L.-- from the Movie of the same name
    7. Twikie--Buck Rodgers in the 24th century
    8. T-1000--Terminator II
    9. Cylons--Battlestar Gallactica
    10. Muffie or Muffit--Battlestar Gallactica (A dagget!(robot dog))
    11. Box--Logan's Run
    12. Model B-9--Lost in Space (according to Dan Carter) , also called Friday by the Japanese.
    13. Hymie from Get Smart
    14. REM from Logan's Run TV Series
    15. Questor from The Questor Tapes
    16. Hector -- Saturn V (Mad robot that chases Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett)

      17. Names Missing

    17. Lal -- Data's Daughter from Star Trek: The Next Generation

      18. Here are some from Star Wars we bet most didn't know about, but you have seen them if you saw the films:

      • FX-7 --Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
      • 1G-88 --Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Assassin Droid with Darth Vader as one of the Bounty Hunters
      • EV-9D9 --Star Wars: Return of the Jedi Put R2D2 to work on Jabba's Barge
      • R5-D4 --Star Wars Blows up giving R2-D2 a chance to go with Luke

      Here is a whole list of qualifiers that came in recently...

      • Lore --Star Trek: The Next Generation
      • Ash --Alien
      • Bishop --Aliens
      • Johnny Five -Short Circuit 2
      • Nanites --Star Trek: The Next Generation
      • Marvin --Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC, Marvin was an extremely paranoid android)
      • KRYTEN --Red Dward (BBC, an android with humor and a 'tude)
      • Bill and Ted --Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991), the evil robot duplicates
      • V.I.N.CENT and BOB --The Black Hole (Disney, 1979)
      • Huey and Dewey from Silent Running (Thanks to Christian J. Vellandi)
      • Kirk's nemesis, the probe NOMAD, which thought he was the "Creator", Star Trek classic series
      • VGER from Star Trek: The Motion Picture

      From Lesser Known TV or Films or lesser known robots...

      • Too-Onebee--Star Wars--Did repair work on Luke Skywalker's arm
      • Tinpan --Dead Space (1991)
      • BB --Deadly Friend (1986)
      • EVE --Eve of Destruction (1991)
      • Mark 13 --Hardware (1990)
      • Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo, Gypsy, Cambot --Mystery Science Theatre 3000
      • Mechagodzilla --A Godzilla villian
      • The Duracell Family --Commercial on TV in U.S.
      • The Energizer Bunny --Commercial on TV in U.S.
      • YOYO --Himes and Yoyo (short lived TV series in 1976)
      • Fembots --The Bionic Woman "The Six Million Dollar Woman"
      • Cherry 2000 --Cherry 2000 - Movie with Melanie Griffith?
      • ROBERT --Fireball XL15, puppet kids show
      • VICKIE --Small Wonder TV show (1985)
      • DAD --And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
      • Urckbot, Urkel's robot

      Also rans that do not qualify:

    18. Vision -- Avengers A robot in Marvel Comics who could change his molecular density (stone or feather)
    19. M3PO -- Star Wars X Wing Series - Books don't count, sorry
    20. Colossus--The Forbin Project - A computer (It has been pointed numerous times that at one point Colossus and the Soviet equivalent join together and become autonomous, in fact taking over the world. However, Colossus was never autonomous, just a little paranoid about the power plug.)
    21. The Borg--Star Trek - Cyborgs
    22. Daleks --Doctor Who (BBC Sci-Fi series...started in 1963, was stopped in late 1980s. The Daleks are genetically engineered biologicals with an outer mechanical shell. See the episode Genesis of the Daleks (thanks to THOMAS HINDS for this correction).
    23. The Robot from the Dr. Who episode, Robot, first Tom Baker episode. this robot was semi-autonomous, set on a mission and then away it goes.
    24. U.S. Air Force GNAT series of reconnaissance...semi-autonomous, are flown off the ground and landed by human controllers, otherwise fly off to perform a pre-planned mission which can include long hours of autonomous loitering.
    25. The Berserkers-- From Fred Saberhagan's Classic Novels...books don't count.
    26. The Six Million Dollar Man, Woman and Dog - Cyborgs
    27. Luke and Darth Vader - Star WarsArtificial Limbs make them like cyborgs
    28. Gun Fighter and others in West World remote controlled by a central facility so they are not autonomous. However, they went out of control, so this is a grey area case.
    29. Police robots --THX-1138, Centrally controlled, semi-autonomous
    30. The Robot --Metropolis Remote Controlled

    By the way, Tim can be reached at mustang@cpeq.com and his web page is at
    http://www.cpeq.com/~mustang

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