Best Robot?

[gully_foyle]

There's been threads on Best Spaceship, Favourite Monster and Sexiest Male/Female/Small Furry Green Thing. Has there been a Best Robot thread? If not then I vote;
ED209
R2D2
Roy Batty
Marvin (from the TV HHGTTG)
Bender
Ash
Klaatu

What constitutes a robot? Humanoids, androids, automatons, simulacra, etc.

Cyborgs don't count, but who am I to dictate? Nominate them freely. My only favourite cyborg is Murphy/Robocop.

 

[Culhwch]

Bender for sure.

 

[Joel007]

Well, ones I remember are...

Robbie
Bishop
Data
Kryten
R2-D2
C-3PO
Terminator(s)
Marvin
Fembots
HAL
Rutger?
Jonny5

I'd love to put Asimov's robots, especially the 3 ZZ ones that went to Jupiter, but I don't remember enough about them.

My favs are R2D2, Bender, Jonny 5, Data, and Marvin.

 

[Taltos]

3 words: R. Daneel Olivaw - and that's it

 

[gully_foyle]

I think HAL belongs in the Best Evil Computer thread, along with Colossus, Mother, Proteus, WOPR and the MCP from Tron.

Also I left off my Best Robot list the evil son of a tin can in Hardware.

 

[BookStop]

Don't forget

Cherry 2000
Sonny
Robocop
Andrew in Bicentennial Man
David and Gigilo Joe in AI
Jinx in Spacecamp
Rachel in Blade Runner
The Stepford Wives
The Tin Man in WoOZ

 

[that old guy]

Fembots

LOL, good lord. I'd forgotten all about them on the Bionic Woman. Though I guess the younger generation only knows them via Austin Powers.

The only one I can add off the top of my head:

Huey and Dewey from Silent Running

 

[Connavar]

Bender would smoke them all

 

[Talysia]

Definitely Bender. Oh, and Red Dwarf's Kryten.

 

[mosaix]

No question - Kryten from Red Dwarf. I'm with you on this Talysia. His sense of humour is second to none.

"You know what it means if we go to red alert?"

"No, what?"

"I'll have to change the bulb!"

 

[Kostmayer]

Zax, from Benji Zax and the Alien Prince. Oh, and Robbie, the talking Bourbon dispenser

 

[tangaloomababe]

Originally posted by Taltos.

3 words: R. Daneel Olivaw - and that's it

I am a big fan of Daneel,my fav asimov character I think. But I also like Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty ( a marvellous character). You would have to mention Arnie as Terminator (only the first one though).
But I am in agreement with others who have already mentioned him:

"I am Bender, please insert Girder"

 

[j d worthington]

ED209
R2D2
Roy Batty
Marvin (from the TV HHGTTG)
Bender
Ash
Klaatu

One correction: that last should be Gort, not Klaatu. Klaatu was Michael Rennie's character.

As for my own personal favorites:

Adam Link
Robbie (both the movies' and Asimov's)
Stephen Byerley
Andrew (or Andrew Martin -- "The Bicentennial Man")
Trent ("Demon with a Glass Hand")

There are others, but those are the ones that come to mind right off...

 

[Erin99]

Another vote for Bender! He's the ultimate robot.

Second: Kryten, definitely!

 

[gully_foyle]

I am ashamed. How could I have left Kryten off my list?

Rimmer: I'm invoking Spacecorps regulation 234 stroke 62.
Kryten: But sir, where are we going to find two live chickens and
a rabbi?

 

[manephelien]

R. Daneel Olivaw, definitely. Also R2/D2.

 

[fantasy noob]

NORBY!!!!! obviously and does the ghola dincan idaho count

 

[Pyan]

Kryten, Marvin or Bender - too close to call!

 

[Allegra]

Marvin may be not the best but he is my favourite.

 

[j d worthington]

NORBY!!!!! obviously and does the ghola dincan idaho count

I wouldn't consider the ghola a robot, despite the use of the Tleilaxu eyes. Aside from that aspect of his makeup (making him at most a cyborg... about like any other case of artificial eyes or even a pacemaker), he's entirely organic... a clone who has been reeducated (on a cellular level at times), but very much human.