Which was your favourite robot?

There have been many robots in television and films, which one depicted in fact or fiction has been or is your favourite?

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baldengineer over 5 years ago +4

I didn't know any of the robots on this list in their own time. So, as a... ... kid, Rosie. ... teenager, Data. ... adult, Bender.
fmilburn over 5 years ago +3

Definitely Bender from Futurama :-)
michaelkellett over 5 years ago +2

Can't vote for any of those. Read Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee). Even DATA from StarTrek is streets ahead. Or the robots from Neal Asher or Ian Banks' books. If a robot has human feelings does it have…

baldengineer over 5 years ago

I didn't know any of the robots on this list in their own time.

So, as a...
... kid, Rosie.
... teenager, Data.
... adult, Bender.
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kmikemoo over 5 years ago

I'm seconding fmilburn. Bender.
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fmilburn over 5 years ago

Definitely Bender from Futurama :-)
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michaelkellett over 5 years ago in reply to cstanton

According to most dictionaries:

android

noun [ C ]
uk /ˈæn.drɔɪd/ us /ˈæn.drɔɪd/

a robot (= machine controlled by computer) that is made to look like a human

So Androids are robots but robots are not necessarily androids.

I've always thought that robots involve motors and traditional mechanical parts and androids are more synthetic biology but it looks as if I was wrong.

MK
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cstanton over 5 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

When does it stop becoming a robot, and start becoming an android? Is there a difference?
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michaelkellett over 5 years ago

Can't vote for any of those.
Read Silver Metal Lover (Tanith Lee).
Even DATA from StarTrek is streets ahead.
Or the robots from Neal Asher or Ian Banks' books.

If a robot has human feelings does it have human rights, certainly a human brain in a synthetic body would, so why not a human consciousness in a synthetic brain ?

MK
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