Robot Chart Porn
io9 recently published a great cartesian plot of most of history's famous (or infamous) robots. The chart is based on factors including alignment (Good-Evil) and physiology (Human Form-Box Form). Some of the robots include the original Terminator (Schwartezegger Form), Eve (from Wall-E), the Daleks (from Dr. Who), and the Master Control Program (from Tron). The chart is meant to show the evolution of the depiction of robots in popular culture. Back in the days of the silent film (Metropolis) and for a long time after, robots were simply good or evil and that was that. They didn't have lovable personalities, or even the chaotic good alignment of our favorite claw-man Wolverine. Just looking at the chart it's easy to see how far the robot has come in cinema and television.
What are the your favorite qualities of robots today? Do you prefer the sensual human-form robots like Number 6, or are you a robot-purist and prefer metallic Centurions?
Let us know.
Wolverine, robots, Centurions, Cylons, Number 6
Where's Bender?
He'd probably fall just beneath Marvin the Paranoid Android (being semi-human form with a neutral alignment).
I prefer the Venus 2000
Where is Johnny5? SHORT CIRCUIT FOR LIFE!!!!
where's Pete-atron?
or MEDIBOT??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ppAM5aPXA (hilarious vid of medibot!)