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Wired's List Of 50 Best Robots

Postby Ian on Wed Dec 28, 2005 8:33 pm

I dunno if I'd count some of these as robots (Ex: HAL 9000) but the list is interesting.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/robots.html

The #1 robot is pretty lame IMO. At least R2-D2 and Optimus Prime made it on the list. :D
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Postby Alejandra on Fri Dec 30, 2005 2:07 pm

I saw only one fem-bot, and Where is Rosie from the Jetsons?

In spanish Rosie was translated as Robotina a more hilarious name, I think.
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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:08 pm

they don't have K9 on that list :(
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Postby Morpheus on Fri Dec 30, 2005 5:42 pm

dodecahedron wrote:they don't have K9 on that list :(


Yeah, I was going to mention that. They list Astro Boy (????) but not K-9. [-X There's also one or two more I thought up yesterday, but I can't remember them now.

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Ok, here's a few:

Mervin (Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy),
Kryton (Red Dwarf),
Bender (Futurama),
Cylons (Battlestar Galactica),
Data / Lore / B4 (etc) (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
(although they're androids not robots)

(and there's probably alot more)...
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Postby dodecahedron on Fri Dec 30, 2005 6:22 pm

as for K9, well, Americans, what do they know of good Sci-Fi ?

omitting Marvin from that list might very well be the stupidest (is there such a word?) omission. #-o

i didn't know the cylons were robots!
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Postby smartin4 on Fri Dec 30, 2005 7:18 pm

Bender (Futurama),



An outrage that he didnt make the list!!!
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Not sure if he would actually qualify or not, but what about Voltron?
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Postby Ian on Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:34 pm

Bender would be on the 50 most notorious robots..

Was Voltron truly a robot though? People had to pilot him.
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