Earlier this year, we counted down the best movie robots ever and you seemed to quite enjoy that. So, we went back to the drawing board to decide on the best TV robots ever, and again we're including androids. It's quite a different crew from the movie scene. Friendlier--some might say, smarter--robots dominate this list. But then when is a robot not smart?

You also get a chance to win this time. Not one, not two, but three prizes. Watch our video to get the question, then post your answer below. Be one of the first 10 people to answer correctly and you could win!

Update Congrats to PacGamer who was one of many many people to correctly identify Robot as Model B-9, Class M-3, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot. PacGamer came up lucky in the random drawing and gets the Bag, Game and shiny penny.

Here are the list of nominees from Twitter and Facebook.

We're also doing another giveaway this week. Watch the video to hear the question. Winner gets a robot once touched by Veronica Belmont. Post your answer in the comments below. First correct answer wins the 'bot.

This latest top 5 involves a subjective determination of the coolest robots ever to appear in a movie, including androids. Exhaustive research, including a lifetime of watching robots in movies, led to this culminating point in my career. The response on Twitter and Facebook when I asked for suggestions was overwhelming.

In fact, it will probably spin off into two more episodes. There are enough TV robots out there to do a separate top 5 just on cool robots of the small screen. And we might even squeeze out a top 5 real robots. They're actually getting cool enough to do it.

In the meantime, I promised I would post the full list of robot suggestions I got on the Web, so here you go. Watch the video for the top 5, and the full list of suggestions comes after the jump. It's a pretty long list. Just goes to show, nothing beats the hive mind.

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