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

jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago in reply to nerd1951

Robbie also showed up in Lost in Space, and Hitchhikers Guide
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nerd1951 over 10 years ago

You forgot Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet! Robby went on to costar in The Invisible Boy and made several appearances on The Twilight Zone.
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spannerspencer over 10 years ago in reply to drlucyrogers

Obviously she wasn't a robot, but given all the fuss around women in STEM that's in the news today, I feel like Dr. Susan Calvin deserves a mention here. She must have been a great early role model for women in science, I dare hypothesise. My favourite character from across Asimov's entire catalogue.
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drlucyrogers over 10 years ago in reply to bluescreen

There was R. Daneel Olivaw, that looked like a human https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw
and R. Giskard Reventlov was the mind reading one.
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bluescreen over 10 years ago in reply to drlucyrogers

Did the robot in Foundation have a name? Or was it just "robot"?

Been a while since I read the Foundation series.
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drlucyrogers over 10 years ago

I Robot (Isaac Asimov)
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jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago in reply to bwelsby

I do remember that one too. That is one for the engineer who watches to see all the technical glitches like the fire from the engines rolling up at the ends, or how they had to make certain moves because of the strings.
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jack.chaney56 over 10 years ago

Must be a much younger crowd of people out there. Always my very best favorite robot is ROBBIE from Forbidden Planet.
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mudz over 10 years ago in reply to DAB

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator) is already there in vote list so I guess we can consider human playing as robots too.

Mudz
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jbilecsu over 10 years ago in reply to mudz

I'd completely forgotten about this series! Nice one.
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