Vote for Your Favorite Robot!

I'll add my take on it.

1. Robots needs to be built by someone or something. In the basic sense they are made of man-made parts. This could get tricky if we ever get to the point where living tissue can be "built".

2. I've always felt that robots should be autonomous - i.e., no remote control.

Some sort of intelligence should be built in that guides it. So a toy car with sensors that keep it from hitting obstacles would be a basic robot, as long as it's driving around on it's own. Those toy bugs would also fall into that category. For me, many of those remote controlled battle-bots don't think qualify as robots.

Good questions, which leads to the base question: What is a robot?

Wasn't Asimov one of the first, if not THE first, to write SF involving robots?

He has a fairly long list of robots in his Foundation series, and I would imagine also in his Robots series (which I haven't read yet).

I say we add R. Daneel Olivaw from the Foundation series and the Robot series to the list - a robot perfectly disguised as a regular human who guides and protects humanity over centuries

THIS is why I'm always SO disappointed when robot competitions and robot courses only have "robots" akin to remote controlled cars

Definitely gotta be Marvin for me to! Nothing beats this bored and depressed robot with Genuine People Personality

Interesting question

Are AI, Self Aware None Organic beings, a Robot in the strictest sense of the word

Data, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 from BS Galactica,  etc etc are self aware and self fulfilling and certainly not a slave to humanity, so Cyborgs or Androids sure, but Robot I dont think so. They may have started out that way in the LAB but the versions we see are so much more and do not adhear to the Robot definition

So is an Artificial Intelegence with an Electromechanical / semi Organic Body a Robot, at what point does a Human with artificial Limbs and other mechanical / Electronics augmentations become a Robot then ?

Hmmm

And what about the Fringe's shapeshifters?

Shapeshifters are inorganic, human hybrids from the Alternate Universe. Also known as the First Wave, the shapeshifters were created with the aid of William Bell to infiltrate the Prime Universe and lay the groundwork for a full-scale invasion that would result in the destruction of the Prime Universe in favor of saving the Alternate Universe from complete destruction. The Alternate Universe, believing that Walter's initial actions in 1985 that caused devastating destruction were the first actions in a coming war that would see one of the universes completely destroyed, deployed the shapeshifters to ensure that it was their universe that survived.

I was just thinking. Maybe a robot at all, it is a Robot-God surrounding all the micro-world of the spaceship inhabitants. Sure!

One omission I battled with mightily of Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I couldn't wrap my head around whether or not to consider it a robot. Would you include Hal 9000 in the conversation?

I quite liked Bubo the Owl fro the origional clash of the Titans.