My list with a few notes on the more obscure robots.
#1 IDAK Omega 17
How could I not rank one of the IDAK androids at #1 on my list? Back before Atari released the first gaming system, the phone was something attached to the wall and was only capable of making phone calls, there was only three television networks and the PC was still a decade away, kids would entertain themselves by playing outside with their other friends. And what we did back then was use our imagination. You probably heard of games like "Cowboys and Indians" or "Cops and Robbers". Basically a forerunner of RPG where everyone pretended to be a character and improvised, usually recreating a scene from a movie or television show. We would do the same thing with television shows. Whenever a group of four to fifteen kids would get together to play "Lost in Space" inevitably there would be a fight over who got to be the most popular character, what we called back then the "Crush, Kill, Destroy" robot. The "Crush, Kill, Destroy" robot made it into games of other shows, including"Star Trek", "Space 1999", faced off against "Superman", and even made an appearance in a game of "Gilligan's Island". ( Poor Gilligan. ) Even after Star Wars came out we would discus how more awesome the movie would have been if the "Crush, Kill, Destroy" robot had been in it.
#2 Robot Santa
#3 Bender
#4 Crow T Robot
#5 Tom Servo
#6 790
#7 Box
From the movie Logan's Run, Box was created and programed to collect and freeze food for the Domed City. When pollution and radiation eventually killed off sea life, Dome City switched to farming fish in aquariums. The problem was that no one bothered to deactivate Box. Left alone with nothing to freeze for hundreds of years, Box gradually went insane, freezing whatever unlucky animal occasionally came into his cave. Eventually Runners looking for a way to escape from Dome City began using Box's cave. No longer able to distinct between animals and humans, Box began freezing and storing any Runner he caught, which was probably all of them. His reign of terror finally came to an end when Logan and Jessica passed through his cave. Logan, a former Sandman, was armed with something no other Runner had; a blaster.
#8 Maria ( Metropolis )
#9 Roberto
#10 Mars Pathfinder
The only real life robot to make my list, Mars Pathfinder was the first mobile robot to be sent to Mars. Pathfinder consisted of a lander/ base station and a rover called Sojourner that could travel away some distance and return with soil and rock samples.
#11 Robot Devil
#12 Gypsy
#13 Hedonismbot
#14 The Turk
Built in 1770, The Turk was exhibited throughout Europe as a mechanical man who could not only play chess, but won most of his matches. The entire unit was a cabnet with a chess board on top, and an automated man in a Turkish outfit permanently seated next to it. Before each match the cabnet was opened to show there was nothing in it other than gears. The back of the mechanical man itself was opened up to show it was full of gears and pulleys and could not possibly be a costume.The Turk went through different owners, eventually ending up at a museum in Philadelphia where it was destroyed in a fire in 1854. It had always been assumed The Turk was some sort of magic trick and not an actual mechanical marvel. Decades after it's destruction, the son of it's final owner claimed that mirrors concealed a secret compartment where a chess expert hid inside the cabnet, working The Turk like a puppet.
#15 Gunslinger
Before there was Westworld the series, there was the classic 70s science fiction movie Westworld( 1973 ), followed by it's sequel Futureworld ( 1976 ). The first film was written and directed by Michael Crichton in a plot he would basically recycle for Jurassic Park. An amusement park for the rich called Delos allows visitors to interact with androids who look exactly like humans. Delos had three sections, Medievalworld, Roanworld and Westworld. Each had buildings and landscapes that resembled the three eras, and were full of androids the guests were welcome to kill. For example, you could fight and beat an android gladiator in Romanworld, or joust with an android knight in Medievalworld. In Westworld you could get into shootouts with android gunslingers. However, something goes wrong with the basic programming and the androids who were suppose to lose, instad begin killing the guests. One of the most dangerous of the androids is known only as Gunslinger ( Yul Brynner ) stalks and kills almost all of the guests at Westworld. In the sequel Futureworld Delos is reopened with promises the androids now have failsafes to prevent them from harming humans. Westworld, where most of the carnage took place, is replaced with two other themed areas, Spaceworld and Futureworld. The only cast member from the original to return was Yul Brynner as The Gunslinger. but only in a dream sequence as Yul only agreed to one days work.
#16 Calculon
#17 Tik Tok
#18 Elektro
Built in 1938 an put on exhibit for the first time at the1939 Worlds Fair, Elektro performed for audiences and showed them the latest Westinghouse products. In reality Elektro was an earlier version of an audio-animatronic, no different than the ones on display at the Disney parks. A human host folowed a script, reacting to Elekrto's pre programmed movements and pre-recorded dialog, giving him the appearance of having artificial intelligence.
#19 Mechagodzilla
#20 The Iron Giant
#21 K-9
#22 Jet Jaguar
#23 Ro-Man from the movie Robot Monster
#24 C3-PO
#25 R2-D2
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