Best Robot?

[littlemissattitude]

Originally Posted by gully_foyle

Klaatu

Umm....Klaatu was the spaceman, played by Michael Rennie. The robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still was called Gort.

And, yes, Gort is right up there as a very cool robot.

Still, I have to confess to having a very soft spot for Robot, from Lost in Space (the original series; don't know anything about the movie, since I refuse to see it). Robot was just cool.

Oh, and while on the subject of The Day the Earth Stood Still...did you know they're working on a remake? I shudder at the very possibility.

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by littlemissattitude

Oh, and while on the subject of The Day the Earth Stood Still...did you know they're working on a remake? I shudder at the very possibility.

Oh.... Dear.... Gawd.....

[HardScienceFan]

Klaatu
Kryten,hands down,LMAO simply when he entered a scene...,let alone his remarks
Who played,him,I believe he was Welsh,that's about all I know/seem to remember
Best sidekicks thread,anyone?????

[Quokka]

For most of the series Kryten was played by Robert Llewellyn, if you've ever seen Scrapheap Challenge, he was the main presenter. I spent ages trying to picture him as Kryten but he looks and sounds so different.

I was shocked to read there had been an american version but I checked it out and imdb and it turns out that it never made it pass the pilot stage, thankfully .

[Wyrm Publishing]

Hands down, it has to be B-9, the robot from the Lost in Space TV show.

[ilthaniel]

R. Daneel Olivaw and Roy Batty. But what about Major Kusanagi? She may not be seen as a robot, but she's as close as you can get, I guess...

[Tabasco]

Originally Posted by mosaix

No contest - Kryten. The only one to have an umbilical attachment for doing the vacuuming!

Dude... Rosie from the Jetsons would own this guy at vacuuming! She had a mean streak in her. Bender beware!

[Alurny]

Bender is the only one who springs to mind for all the obvious reasons!

[Connavar]

Bender is the best and the funniest robot i have seen and read.

[Jason_Taverner]

bender or robocop, who I not sure if you can really class as a robot but he was cool

[Briareus Delta]

Marvin and Kryten, definitely. With an honourable mention to Speedy (from Asimovs I, Robot)

[Triceratops]

Awe, heck. I had to look up Kryten to see what y'all were talking about. Okay, got it.

Don't know their names but:

The big old bot in Judge Dread (very cool and junkyard looking)

The bi-pedal gun platform bot in Robocop

The silver wonder in Logan's Run

And the bot in (I think it was called Saturn 5, staring Kirk Douglas)


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[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by Triceratops

The silver wonder in Logan's Run

And the bot in (I think it was called Saturn 5, staring Kirk Douglas)

I assume you mean "Box" (played by Roscoe Lee Browne), from the ice sculpture sequence, in Logan's Run? If so, I'd have to add that one to the list, as I've always been particularly fond of him/it (it's a cyborg, really, as I recall)... and Jerry Goldsmith's musical rendition for him is especially memorable, I think.

As for the one in Saturn 5... beautiful looking... but thoroughly impractical, considering the story -- too easily damaged, and with all the exposed hydraulic tubing, it could have been put out of commission too quickly to have become the menace it is supposed to be. It did look neat, though....

[HardScienceFan]

That' s Hollywood ,JD.
As long as it look neat.....
I remember a certain Emsh Cover for Dick's "the Defenders" with a memorable robot

[T7000]

I think the terminator is the best, although technically I think im a cyborg