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   Jack Bohn to Your Name   
   Re: Movie Robots: Working Our Way Up   
   16 Oct 22 04:10:29   
   
   From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:31:01 PM UTC-4, Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2022-10-15 21:17:33 +0000, Jack Bohn said:    
   > >    
   > > I know I'm missing alot, any you all want to see rated?   
      
   > There is definitely a ton missing, but it would be near-impossible to    
   > rank them *all*. Loads from Star Wars, more animated show ones (e.g.    
   > Rosie from the Jetsons), as usual all the Asian and UK ones, such as    
   > Doctor Who's Cybermen, Daleks (although more mechanical wheelchairs for    
   > a living beings), Metal Mickey, "Humans" TV androids, Transformers, ...    
      
   I meant to rank Rosie!  Somewhere about 0.42 or so.  I may be giving too much   
   credit for the narrow wheelbase; I'm thinking if you did it live she' mostly   
   be supported by wires.whereas a live Bender would probably be someone with the   
   legs and arms made    
   of that flexible conduit cover, like the arms of Robby.   
      
   Every time I'm away from the computer I think of more robots, but when I sit   
   down at the keyboard I forget.  I meant to mention that "Silent Running" had a   
   pool-playing robot, evidently based on what researchers at the time were   
   working on!   
       
   > It may also depend on what you term as a "robot". Something like KITT    
   > is technically a car-shaped robot (self-thinking, self-moving, etc.).   
      
   KITT!  Definitely a robot.  Also believable in what it can do -- as much as   
   any car on TV.  yeah, maybe all the way up to 0.989.   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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