Vote for Your Favorite Robot!

We don't yet know who will win the USA-Japan robot challenge, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about our all time favorite robots!

Who is the best fictional robot of all time?

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bwelsby over 10 years ago +12

I have to go for Marvin the paranoid android from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, brain the size of a planet.
bluescreen over 10 years ago +9

What about Number 6 from Battlestar Galactica?
Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago +7

Now of course there is TARS and CASE from Interstellar (Awsome IMHO) You have to love their Humour setting and Honesty level

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bluescreen over 10 years ago

Another one on my list is Roy Batty from Blade Runner.

Because Blade Runner.
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dgreen over 10 years ago in reply to bluescreen

The replicants were genetically engineered - biological, not mechanical. I don't think they would count as robots.
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balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to dgreen

Not so true Daniel.

Replican biological aspects was intentionally an important aspect of them in the Film version but in the original view of the author Philip K. *** replicants are "androids". Maybe we will discuss if androids are or are not "robots"... The original novel title is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and some changes may have sense: Ridley Scott never finished reading the P.K.*** novel but started making "Blade Runner" film before. In fact P.K. *** never saw the film as he died by a stroke just few months before the film was ready.

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dgreen over 10 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

In the book, as in the movie, the only way to tell a replicant from a human was by giving them an empathy test. If they were mechanical, instead of biological, it would have been a lot easier to tell them apart. Some other people have also suggested that the human looking cylons in Battlestar Galactica were robots, but they could mate with humans and produce viable offspring, so they were clearly biological.
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dgreen over 10 years ago in reply to balearicdynamics

In the book, as in the movie, the only way to tell a replicant from a human was by giving them an empathy test. If they were mechanical, instead of biological, it would have been a lot easier to tell them apart. Some other people have also suggested that the human looking cylons in Battlestar Galactica were robots, but they could mate with humans and produce viable offspring, so they were clearly biological.
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balearicdynamics over 10 years ago in reply to dgreen

Daniel,

you are right about replicants. I mean that we can assume they as "robots" (following the concept of automa) just because in the view of PKD these were. Then I agree that the distance of replicants to humans is veeery thick ...
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