Robots This star-studded animated flick Ewan McGregor! Robin Williams! Mel Brooks! You could lose yourself in it for hours. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription.
Account Profile. Sign Out. Tags: the terminator wall-e westworld the matrix transformers robots vulture lists movies blade runner metropolis the iron giant a. Voiced entirely by Mac in a nice touch, Auto is the seemingly helpful machine turned bad and driven by its own logic and previous orders.
Going against the cold emotionless stereotype, he almost seems to enjoy being the baddie, killing humans and robots with glee and generally causing mayhem for the crew of the Palomino. A helpful robot for once, but really an entirely pointless character in the film overall, one of the highest compliments I can pay is that it felt like 80s robot had always been a part of the Muppets.
Armed with machine gun jubblies, these sexy but dangerous robots are almost the end of Austin Powers. One of the best inventions of the films, unleashed by the shrill command of Frau, they are only defeated by the disturbingly sensual dance of Austin Powers.
Channelling our natural mistrust of technology, WarGames had Joshua learn to like playing games so much, and wanting to see them out to a victorious conclusion that it nearly triggers World War III. It is only after Joshua is made to see the futility of mutually assured destruction that it realises there is logical gain or victory from launching the missiles — a super computer made to see reason.
Many things make Rocky IV great, but the fact it features a serving robot for no real reason is probably the best thing about it. But the audience just has to accept this and move on. Maybe it was there to make the fact that Rocky ended the Cold War later on a bit more plausible. The premise of Westworld has androids designed to be as close to humans as possible, and designed entirely for our pleasure and service.
Added to this is the fact that Bryner is essentially playing his Chris Adams character from The Magnificent Seven, and the lines between man and machine begin to get increasingly blurred, as is exactly the intent of this morality tale. So considering The Matrix is heavily indebted to Tron , why do they get a higher placing?
Not merely a product of a virtual world, the Machines actually waged war on humanity and won, and then decided to use us as an energy source.
Which horrifically makes complete logical sense but also makes them great bad guys. However, what elevates them above the usual computers and robots is the human face they present in the films — they are visible in the sentinels, in the agents, and in the very name of the film itself, The Matrix.
The Machines know all. You can see Reeves and Winter really enjoying playing the baddies, and engaging in such activities as trying to run over cats and getting a bit fresh with the princesses. Probably the only French New Wave artificial intelligence on this or any list like it. Alpha 60 has outlawed emotions in the city, and orders the executions of any who show love, sadness or happiness. Voiced by a man with a mechanical voice box, Alpha 60 narrates the film with a hypnotic intensity which almost sucks you into its way of thinking.
Far more than the C3PO parody her appearance suggests, Dot Matrix is memorable for being Joan Rivers as a robot literally , and being on cracking comedic form. While the film itself is a bit hit and miss and not quite as good as my young self remembers , Rivers and Dot Matrix is always on hand to enliven proceedings. Armed with her virgin alarm, and numerous put-downs or a pithy retort, she is the cynical voice of reason in the film, and serves to remind us that robots can be funny too.
Having one of the most influential and revered films of the last 30 years named after you, not to mention a mega-budget sequel and various spin-off media? Not bad for a security program. He is there protect Flynn in the games, to make sure he survives the grid, and to reassure him in this strange world. Which makes what they did to his character in the sequel a bit unforgiveable — okay, so making him an evil program worked, but the way the did with such a tacked on explanation was awful, and why not make a bit more of it?
The franchise is only bloody well named after him! His eventual recapture also exposes the main weakness in robots who go bad — electromagnetic recapture. The all-powerful big bad of the Terminator universe, Skynet is essentially the internet after it turns on us.
Which is a a scary, scary thought, and b going to happen for sure one of these days. Pretty much undefeatable, Skynet always finds a way to exist and just keeps on coming. Instead it just keeps on sending Terminators after everyone. Max is one such being, initially a dry, emotionless alien ship who likes to collect and perform dubious experiments on various lifeforms he encounters, but is then transformed by a scan onto our human hero David into the stubborn but rather funny AI we all remember from the film.
Voiced by Paul Reubens, Max is the star of the show, despite the film being about David, the navigator. It was in one of those plush oversized video cases with a slightly squidgy luxury feel and the promise of electronic dreams come true on the cover image. A sophisticated micro-computer housed in the body of a boy okay, I think you could argue he was a cyborg, but I like to think they have human brains, and are cybernetically enhanced organic intelligence, whereas D. Which is what any A.
Read more on the film, here. Is he a robot? They just want to be more like us, and never can be. Plus he has a pretty wicked axe for slaying flying monkeys. Gerty — Moon. It's actually an advanced piece of robotics that won't fetch a tennis ball. Introduced in , AIBO is one of the most sophisticated toys on the market. It can find its docking station, recognize its owner's face, and respond to voice commands. RB5X It hit store shelves in , and this first-ever mass-produced home robot kit is still sold today.
RB5X can be programmed to speak, navigate a room, and perform such simple tasks as retrieving small objects. Of course, its real claim to fame was as a sweet prize on the '80s videogame quiz show Starcade.
Carried on a soldier's back, it can be tossed into a building or under a car, where it will assess the situation or maybe just be blown up.
First deployed in Afghanistan in , it's now on active cannon-fodder duty in Iraq. But he really gets in gear playing hide-and-seek with a schoolboy. The giant eventually achieves robot enlightenment, realizing that he controls his own destiny even if that means head-butting a suborbital nuclear weapon. It's a classic example of how robots - like all technologies - are neither good nor evil, just tools of circumstance. Robots that turn into giant trucks - way cool.
Robots that turn into giant trucks and command a fleet of autobots - now that could change pop culture history. Such was the impact of the Transformer when the toy line was introduced in , spawning decades of TV shows, movies, and comic books.
Not impressed? You would be if it were The contraption was a hoax inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen stashed a human chess master inside , but it sparked early debates over what it means for a machine to think. Completed in by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the first fully independent underwater scout can dive down to 15, feet, map thermo layers and collect water samples, then swim home on its own.
They must have been reading very utilitarian fiction - their creation was a 4,pound arm that stacked sheets of hot metal. But it transformed the assembly line; a variant is still in use today. Well, that and the desire to combat rust. Not bad for And hey, how many other robots sing and dance with Judy Garland? He settled for a mechanical duck that pooped. The machine used a weight system to quack, flap its wings, drink water, and eat grain, which it would digest mechanically and expel through an opening in its backside.
Out of a long line of assassin bots, the Terminator is the perfect blend of indestructibility and determination. With him, James Cameron personified what we really fear about robots: They'd do better without us. The US military's famed unmanned aerial vehicle became a household name in after taking flight in Afghanistan. Now armed with hellfire missiles, it no longer just monitors enemies - it blows them up, too.
She danced topless, incited riots, and sparked duels, but what really got her off was overthrowing the ruling class. Search for:. Facebook Twitter Email. Robots in Film chronological by film title Introduction Early now.
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