The top five robots of all time
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Citroen, Robocop, BERTI, robots on
Robots are back in the headlines, with he Science Museum publicly debuting one of the advanced robots in the UK, BERTI, which is a life sized humanoid robot built to mimic a key component of human communication - gesturing.
The robot is capable of playing a game of Scissors, Paper, Stone, with Kat Nilsson of the Science Museum saying: “As robots become ever more sophisticated and find their way into our homes and workplaces, it’s vital we feel comfortable in their presence.”
To celebrate BERTI, I’ve decided to compile a list of some of my favourite robots - both real and from my geeky childhood.
- 1 Optimus Prime
The leader of the Autobots is my all time favourite robot. Forgetting the fact he’s not real for a second, he’s what every leader should be - big, red and with the ability to turn into a truck. And he was always capable of laying the smack down on his arch enemy Megatron - who turned into a crappy gun. This confused me - how did he turn into a gun that Soundwave was able to shoot?
Megatron turning into a gun - though this is admittedly cool.
- 2 The real Transformer
Absolutely beautiful and turns dreams into reality. The WR-07 bot developed by Hemjii Soft Japan was capable of turning from a wheeled car into a hardened battle bot in seconds - so… damn… cool.
- 3 The dancing Citroen Robot
My robots have to be able to boogie - and this does it well. - Check out the remarkably good parodies.
The dancing old Citroen 2CV robot. You gotta remember these.
- 4 The Robot Wars Robots
These robots - usually created by geeky buddies with a little too much time on their hands - were remarkably good as they smashed the living crap out of each other with lots of spinny bits and lots of pointy bits. Craig Charles was the man… and I always had a soft spot for Philippa Forrester.
The fabulousness of Robot Wars
The superb Robot Wars Spaced parody
- 5 Robocop
It was a toss-up between the Terminator and Robocop, but I chose Robocop because 1 - I watched it last week, and 2 - he looks like a proper robot rather than a human with a robot endoskeleton. I think the bit where Murphy gets cut surrounded and cut down by Clarence and the criminals corrupted me for life. Anyway. It rules.
The brilliant Robocop rap - it explains the whole story in ten minutes.
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