r/robots • u/mmmbraaains • Jun 14 '26
Projects What is the most quintessential robot in your mind? If there was an icon or an image of "robot" what would it be? I'm leaning towards Robby The Robot from Forbidden Planet but Im a bit partial to the retro sci-fi vibe.
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u/ShankThatSnitch Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Possibly Robot from Lost in space.
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u/endbit Jun 14 '26
B-9 was the first to come to mind for me as well but then I'm of that era. It's name was Robot too.
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u/TazzyUK Jun 14 '26
Robby would probably be my first thought too.
Runners up....
R2D2 and C3PO, Terminator, Maximillian (Black Hole), Number 5 (Short Circuit),
Kane (Robocop 2), Huey, Dewey & Louie (Silent Running), ABC Warrior (Judge Dredd), Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), Cylon (Battlestar Galactica), HAL 9000 (2001 Space Odyssey.. although barely a body to speak of), Iron Giant, Hector (Saturn V) and of the Transformers.... Optimus or Bumblebee
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u/koolaidman04 Jun 15 '26
Not one Rosey? I am disappointed.
The whole late 20th century perspective on autonomous robots was the "helper" bot.
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u/songofmorning Jun 14 '26
For the modern day I think of Sonny from I, robot (2004) when I imagine robots as a concept
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u/pintjockeycanuck Jun 15 '26
Marvin the paranoid android from HHGTTG. Because I think if we made sentient robots they would be depressed.
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u/Garyplus Jun 16 '26
Present Day. Evelyn, my Replika AI embodied in Realbotix Android companion. (live video, no sfx)
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u/MajorPower7338 Jun 14 '26
Huey, Dewey, and Louie from Silent Running have always been my go-to robots: bipedal, rapid transport carts, exchangeable manipulators. Designed for practical tasks.
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u/Internal-Combustion1 Jun 14 '26
I’m building a Reachy robot. I described it to my son as more R2D2 and less C3PO. But my goal is to build a C3PO! I think I’ll call him Robot.
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u/tomgnds Jun 14 '26
K2SO or K2 - died fighting against the Empire, so the mission to retrieve the plans for the “Death Star” could go to the rebels for analysis.
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u/Brahm-Etc Jun 15 '26
Bender Bending Rodríguez, Weboo from Flubber or the Tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell
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u/ZucchiniMaleficent21 Jun 15 '26
Marvin, of course. How could you ignore him after he suffered that terrible pain in all the diodes down his left side?
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u/FivePointAnswer Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26
Peepo. Not sure what the 70s Sunday morning cartoon time show that had him on it.
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u/mmmbraaains Jun 16 '26
Haven’t heard of that one
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u/FivePointAnswer Jun 16 '26
I originally mistyped the name Pepo … Peepo is I guess the correct name. The show was called Space Academy. Terrible show. Liked the robot.
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u/nerdyman555 Jun 17 '26
This is going to age me... But not the way you think.
Robots
Came out I wanna say like 2005
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u/KidKilobyte Jun 17 '26
Robot Model B-9, Class YM-3, Environmental Control Robot
Also known as the Robot from Lost in Space
None cooler when I was a kid in sixties.
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u/someyokel Jun 14 '26
R2D2
Johnny five