Top 5 coolest movie robots
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.
Astro Boy
B9 (The Robot)
Bender
Bishop
Bumblebee
C3PO
Crow T. Robot
Cybermen
Cylon
Daggit
Data
ED-209
EVE
Fembots
General Grievous
Giant Robo
Gigolo Joe
Gort
GLaDOS
Gundam
Hector
IG-88
Iron Giant
Johnny 5
Johnny Sokko's flying robot
K-9
Keepon
Kryten
Lore
Marvin the paranoid android
Maximillian
Mechagodzilla
Metal Mickey
Metropolis
Optimus Prime
Otto
R2D2
Replicators
Robocop
Robot Frank
Rosie the robot
Terminator (T-800)
Terminator (T-1000)
Tick Tock
Tin Man
Tom Servo
Twiki
Valkyrie
Vicki
Vision
Voltron
WALL-E
VINCENT
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Replicators are the amorphous blobs of micro-tech from stargate. Replicants are the humanoid robots from Blade Runner (though the term i believe also covers the artificial animals from the movie too.).
You Forgot Robot Sico (see-co) from the Movie Rocky-IV with Sylvester Stallone.
Why does Sico qualify as a cool Robot?
Because he is the only Robot in the world who is actually a dues-paying member of the Screen Actors Guild. Because he gave a Command Performance at the White House. Because he spoke at the United Nations. Because he recently stared in an episode of Punk'd MTV with Hilary Swank. Because he recently appeared in an episode of Family Guy. Because he stared in a Concert Tour with the late James Brown. Because he stared in a Music Video with Carly Simon. Because he stared in a full season of episodes with the Soap Opera Days of Our Lives. But most importantly, because Sico (also known as Millennia) has been part of an ongoing Research program to study the pioneering science of Technology-to-People Behavioral Psychology, working closely with Children and Adults with special needs all over the world as a therapeutic Surrogate, in Clinics, Hospitals, Schools, Rehabilitation Centers, Senior Centers, etc.
Yes, Sico is WAY COOL in my mind and I have long been a fan of his, following his many travels and activities. He has not only worked more than any other movie/TV robot on your list, but is also a Robot with a Heart, constantly and silently performing a huge volume of socially redeeming work, offering his time to do goodwill work all over the planet. Here are some links that his makers have sent me:
Sico/Millennia: The world's most advanced programmable and remotely controllable Celebrity Robot.
Document:
www.internationalrobotics.com/uploads/milinf02.pdf
Video of Millennia co-hosting a Talk Show:
www.internationalrobotics.com/uploads/VJohnWalshShowShortVersion.wmv
Document School & Hospital Visits:
www.internationalrobotics.com/uploads/milschool&HospitalVisits.pdf
www.internationalrobotics.com/uploads/VAlcoaRobotVisitsMassenaSchools.wmv
Please add Sico to your list Tom. He deserves it. I don't know too many Robots anywhere and anytime who have some as much entertainment and benevolent work as Sico/Millennia
Yours truly
Bill Ewing
Robbie from Forbidden Planet, and the "Robot" from Lost In Space get my vote.
They were played by amputies in costume so they were only 2 to 2-1/2 feet tall and used their arms to walk.
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