“Our Favorite Cimenatic Robots”

Just came across this article in the Globe and Mail today and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. It’s funny when a respectable publication like this one chooses to release something that I myself would have done, or did do, in small increments. In fact, many of the contenders on this list call to mind my little listing on Robots, Cyborgs and AIs which I did awhile back.

But dammit, they left out HAL and Robocop. That’s just plain wrong! Sure, they were trying to keep it to top 10 and felt the need to exclude cyborgs and supercomputers, and did have the good nature to apologize in advance for this, but still…

Here is the list as it appears in the article:

T he Terminator
Droids from Star Wars (R2D2 and C3P0)
Wall-E
Replicants from Blade Runner
Maria (Metropolis)
Ash (Alien)
The Iron Giant
Gigolo (AI)
The Stepford Wives
Robby the Robot

Check out the full article here, complete with a gallery and some explanations of why these constitute “our” favorites