The best fictional robot
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw, of The Culture series.
So deadpan delivery of unintended puns, so incapable of understanding the hows and whys of the human oddities and emotions. Loyal all the way to a fault and slightly beyond, and utterly uncaring of your wishes if it disagrees with them too much.
And must not forget, deadly as well. Intelligent knife-missiles for the win
For those unaware of the Culture firepower and technological capacity...
"The short story A Gift from the Culture mentions a antimatter-powered handgun capable of firing 10^8 Watts of plasma. The protagonists reflects that he would be able to level the entire city around him, in the end opting for just shooting down a starship. The gun is officially rated as a general purpose 'peace' weapon, in other words not powerful enough for full battlefield use. Cheradinine Zakalwe, mercenary extraordinaire from Use of Weapons, packs an arsenal of more capable arms."
And stats for one of their wars which didn't quite push the Culture to their limit in production capacity...
Idiran-Culture-War. Length of war: forty-eight years, one month. Total casualties, including machines and non-combatants: 851.4 billion. Losses: ships (all classes above interplanetary) 91 215 660; Orbitals 14 334; planets and major moons 53; Artificial Ringworlds 1; Artificial Sphereworlds 3; stars 6.
So deadpan delivery of unintended puns, so incapable of understanding the hows and whys of the human oddities and emotions. Loyal all the way to a fault and slightly beyond, and utterly uncaring of your wishes if it disagrees with them too much.
And must not forget, deadly as well. Intelligent knife-missiles for the win
For those unaware of the Culture firepower and technological capacity...
"The short story A Gift from the Culture mentions a antimatter-powered handgun capable of firing 10^8 Watts of plasma. The protagonists reflects that he would be able to level the entire city around him, in the end opting for just shooting down a starship. The gun is officially rated as a general purpose 'peace' weapon, in other words not powerful enough for full battlefield use. Cheradinine Zakalwe, mercenary extraordinaire from Use of Weapons, packs an arsenal of more capable arms."
And stats for one of their wars which didn't quite push the Culture to their limit in production capacity...
Idiran-Culture-War. Length of war: forty-eight years, one month. Total casualties, including machines and non-combatants: 851.4 billion. Losses: ships (all classes above interplanetary) 91 215 660; Orbitals 14 334; planets and major moons 53; Artificial Ringworlds 1; Artificial Sphereworlds 3; stars 6.
Marvin, the manic depressive robot. So awesome; he is the oldest "living" being in existence, having lived 37 times the length of time of the universe!
To many hot robots to count (Guri,Chachamaru, Romi (from the Adromaeda show), etc...)
Would a clockwork golem be considered a robot?
To many hot robots to count (Guri,Chachamaru, Romi (from the Adromaeda show), etc...)
Would a clockwork golem be considered a robot?
I'm going with a darkhorse candidate I don't believe anyone has mentioned yet, Claptrap from Borderlands.
1) He dances to his own techno beat in the background
2) He shows you where sweet weapons are if you find his repair kit
3) He's the god damn heart and soul of that game
1) He dances to his own techno beat in the background
2) He shows you where sweet weapons are if you find his repair kit
3) He's the god damn heart and soul of that game
Bender and Kryten. I love the Mr Gutsy robots in Falout 3.
'Are you ready to die for your country YOU COMMIE SON OF A *****!'
'Are you ready to die for your country YOU COMMIE SON OF A *****!'
I have a few favorites:
Optimus Prime, Starscream, the T-1000, Mega Man, Marvin (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and HK-47.
That, fellow escapists, is a list of pure AWESOME!
Optimus Prime, Starscream, the T-1000, Mega Man, Marvin (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), and HK-47.
That, fellow escapists, is a list of pure AWESOME!
5. R2-D2 and C-3PO (I consider them one unit since they're almost always together)
4. Gir
3. ED-209 ("You have twenty seconds to comply.")
2. While not a true Robot, Evangelion Unit-01
and finally number one on the list- B1-66ER.
4. Gir
3. ED-209 ("You have twenty seconds to comply.")
2. While not a true Robot, Evangelion Unit-01
and finally number one on the list- B1-66ER.
The fact that it saves the rest of the crew at the same time makes it all the more epic.Zaldin said:
a tie between the Iron giant, QT-1, and R. Daneel (both inventions of the mind of Isaac Asimov). I mean QT does start his own robot cult. and if any of you guys know where each of the last robots are from, I'll give you each a cookie