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Westinghouse Electric Corporation developed Elektro from 1937 to 1938. That Terminator is out there. The Borg appear in various films and series within the Star Trek franchise. He has a hard time of it and no other robot knows, or could know, what it is like to be that under appreciated. Roll out! Either way, these cyborgs, androids, drones and more, are a staple everyone’s pop-culture diet. Carol Killeen, When seventies TV series Battlestar Gallactica was re-imagined for the 21st century, several key changes were made, most notable of which was the enemy. They appear briefly in two of the X-Men movies, namely "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "X-Men: Apocalypse."

Who wouldn’t love to have a machine in your home that cleaned up after you, getting out the hover when the dog has rolled mud on the carpet and making sure you jeans are clean when you need them? David Bolger. I mean, who sees pink and thinks danger? Whatever their reasons, Wayne Coyne seemed confident that a young girl named Yoshimi could defeat them, amply prepared as she was with a vigorous karate and vitamin taking regime.

But where HAL failed, GERTY triumphs. Thanks to movies like "Star Wars," movie robots have become as important as the human characters they interact with and rightful members of the cast. How do you go from graduate to fully fledged software engineer? Rachael Murphy, An icon of science-fiction, Robbie was created for 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. 7 Min, 6 Minute Quiz His concern lies almost solely in preventing his human companions from coming to harm. Get Stacker's best stories delivered right to your inbox.

She was like supporting wall that prevented our favourite space-age family from falling apart.

Luckily, Snake would always find the machine’s weak spot and destroy the abomination so we can all sleep soundly tonight. Since then, just over two years later, the curious robot has travelled a lot less accruing 40km from its original landing site which means it now holds the record for the furthest distance travel by an artificial object on another celestial body, not taking into account potential far-flung alien life. We send trivia questions and personality tests every week to your inbox. If you thought “robot” in the sixties, odds are you’re thinking of Robby. A robot who is, quite simply, a friend. HAL has become synonymous with our fears about the rise of A.I. Darth Vader may have been tall, dark and menacing, Luke Skywalker may have been the main character, Han Solo may have been Harrison Ford, but R2-D2 is the face of Star Wars and in a way, that makes him the face of popular film, which is funny because he’s just a robot that can’t really do much apart from prodding you with his unnecessary electric baton thing that he has inside himself somewhere. They play a much bigger role, however, in the 2014 film "X-Men: Days of Future Past.". Within the Marvel Universe, the Sentinels are robotic hunters of mutants. After all, this is a robot that has always been greater than the sum of its parts.

Marvin is the robot embodiment of the human condition. This was carried out via the threat of global Armageddon. But maybe that’s what they want us to believe… Brogen Hayes. In 1928, Eric became the UK's first robot. "The Black Hole" was the first film from Disney Productions to be rated PG. In the 1979 sci-fi film "The Black Hole," the voice of the robot V.I.N.CENT is supplied by Roddy McDowall. George was a radio-controlled, 6-foot-tall robot made from scrap metal. The robots are listed in chronological order, from oldest to newest. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” Those were the cautionary words of Kyle Reese, which served as a perfect introduction and summation of one of sci-fi’s greatest and scariest villains. Stephen Rogers, One of the Sony PlayStation’s most memorable and influential franchises is undoubtedly the Metal Gear series. While the film is directed by Fritz Lang, the 1925 book on which it is based is written by his wife, Thea von Harbou. The Soviet rover landed on the lunar surface on Nov. 17, 1970.

93% of people can't guess these 50 famous robots by looking at just one image. Robots have been on the big screen nearly as long as movies have been around, such as in the 1896 film "L’Ève Future." Ghost in the Shell ‘s Major Motoko Kusanagi is a robot described as a synthetic "full-body prosthesis" augmented-cybernetic human. In "Transformers," both the Autobots and the Decepticons are sentient humanoid robots from the planet Cybertron.

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