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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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Did we forget to include your favorite robot? Let us know in the comments below. We'll send out some element14 goodies for the best comments, arguments and rationale! image

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  • Who remembers these mashed potato making robots?

     

  • in reply to bluescreen

    That's true, but the concept has more deep origins and it seems to be part of the humans all ages mythology. This concept is present in almost all religions and philosophy; just think to the idea of Golem that is more ancient than Grecians Gods...

    This concept is present too in the nordic mythology as well as Indian and Asia.

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    Kurzweil's 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' has a theory (not saying I agree or disagree that it could occur!) that the word becomes meaningless towards the end of this century, because we won't understand the concept of 'human' or 'machine' any longer, it will all become blurred. Not only will artificial intelligence not be distinguishable from intelligence, but perhaps our brains will think the question nonsensical if we are asked what is the difference. It's a scary thought!

  • While the word robot may have relatively recent origins, the original idea comes down from Greek mythology. Hephaistus (Vulcan, if you roll Roman) built humanoid assistants out of metal. I think one of them was named Talos, but my classical studies are a bit rusty.

  • in reply to spannerspencer

    Spanner Spencer wrote:

     

    As far as I recall, 'robot' comes from the Czechoslovakian word for 'slave', although I think it was used in closer reference to 'labour' or 'service'.

    I believe it's from Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (1920) also known as Rossum's Universal Robots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

  • in reply to element14Dave

    Sorry, HAL 9000 is not a robot.  Robots have to be able to move about autonomously IMO.

     

    The original list and comments have some of my favorites like Marvin, Bender, and Wall-E.  I also really like Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Silent Running (1972).  But since I can only vote for one, it's got to be Yul Brynner's gunslinger robot from Westworld (1973): Pictures & Photos from Westworld (1973) - IMDb

  • in reply to spannerspencer

    In Russian, 'to work' is 'работать'. -> rabotat

     

  • in reply to ntewinkel

    As far as I recall, 'robot' comes from the Czechoslovakian word for 'slave', although I think it was used in closer reference to 'labour' or 'service'.

     

    So possibly we could deem something a robot if it's a machine that performs work as instructed by a circuit or program or operator.

     

    Interesting to note that 'android' is a masculine term, and refers to a robot that's designed in the shape of a man. The rarely used feminine version of the word (for female shaped robots) is 'gynoid'.

     

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