Robotic Melding

I've be asked again to provide mental melding on the SF Signal blog.  The topic this time is "The Coolest Robots in SF."  I've cross-posted my entry here, but you should go see the rest:

The coolest robots in SF? That's a tall order. The field is vast, including everything from the ambulatory logical puzzle machines of Isaac Asimov's Robot stories, to the Cylons of BSG. Gort to Wall-E. It's almost an impossible task to narrow it down…But, if we agree that we're talking about...