IF I were a robot I'd be...

[Omaha Steve]

Sound off. I was asked today what kind of robot I would be. It got me to thinking.

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	A terminator T-1000
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	Lost in Space (TV) robot
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	Iron Giant
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	Johny 5 (Short Circuit)
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	Robby (Forbidden Planet)
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	Twiki (Buck Rodgers TV)
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	Ash (Alien)
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	Data (STNG)
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	Robo-Cop
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	OTHER (explain)
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[MattBaggins]

1. How can you have TWIKI but not Dr. Theopolis

[Purveyor]

2. Other and I certainly wouldn't be wasting time posting bullshit polls on a political website. eom

[Warpy]

4. Hey, it's Sunday night, what else are you going to do

except post BS polls on a pol site?

It's a BS poll because it didn't include Marvin, the depressed robot from "Hitchhiker."

[Purveyor]

6. Well at least it wasn't posted in LBN... ;) eom

[Fearless]

13. Here goes...

[Warpy]

33. I suppose I could watch that but I wouldn't enjoy it.

Brain the size of a planet and they want me to watch You Tube videos. The unfairness of it all.

Don't mind me, I'll just stand in the corner and wait to rust solid.

[Egalitarian Thug]

37. I always preferred the BBC Marvin. I mean sure Alan Rickman is a big star and all,

but when reading the books, the original was much closer to what I imagined.

[johnp3907]

3. I'd be Gigantor.

But I'd smash the remote control so that kid couldn't push me around.

[TeamPooka]

5. ^ +1

[cherokeeprogressive]

9. ^

[Scootaloo]

7. Tom Servo n/t

[csziggy]

8. Marvin, from Hitchiker's Guide to the Universe

Thanks, Warpy, for reminding me of his name.

It's him or Kryten from Red Dwarf:

I would have said Holly, but he's not a robot, he's a computer program:

[Electric Monk]

24. I think I'd be an Electric Monk, cast out in the wilderness

[Fumesucker]

10. Bite my shiny metal ass

[Deep13]

27. +1 nt

[HappyMe]

41. I vote Bender.

[Major Nikon]

11. Is a vibrator a robot?

[Sancho]

12. r2d2

[Wwagsthedog]

19. Me2

[mathematic]

14. Bender B. Rodriguez? R. Daneel Olivaw?

This poll needs like 20 more options!

[Omaha Steve]

15. I agree

10 is the system limit.

[MNBrewer]

43. R. Daneel Olivaw

for sure

[Marie Marie]

16. Other. I would probably be a Roomba -

just roaming around picking up other people's crap.

[defacto7]

17. WALL-E

That's me.

[mythology]

18. I would probably be one of these three

HAL from 2001, the WOPR from Wargames or Antrax from the book of the same name. The latter is most likely given the number of books I am constantly tripping over, but refuse to get rid of because I like having knowledge at hand.

Of course, two of those three are villains and the other nearly started WW III, so perhaps I should have somebody unplug me just to be safe.

[William769]

20. IF I were a robot I'd

Still be damn cute!

[Fumesucker]

21. A Fabulous robot no doubt..

[kentauros]

29. Cute, like this one?

Or perhaps like this one?

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

58. I would go with Batou but perhaps change the eyes a little

I would also like to have a Tachikoma in the garage.

[kentauros]

60. Just one Tachikoma, and not the whole socialist crew?

Or whatever workers' rights system they were beginning to emulate

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

63. I only have room for one

I'm sure she can use the net to visit with her tachikoma friends that are far away and for those that are just down the street, we can let her have play days.

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. Caprica 6. n/t

[HarveyDarkey]

23. Gort

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How could you leave out Gort?

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[Agnosticsherbet]

25. Andrew from Asimov's Bicentenial Man and the Robin Williams movie.

[Jamastiene]

44. Same here. n/t

[jberryhill]

26. A Better Actor Than Keanu Reaves!

[Agnosticsherbet]

28. 790 of Lexx would be interesting, though he is only a head...

but he is madly devoted to the sex slave Xev Bellringer, so I could deal with just being a Head.

[darkangel218]

30. I dont like robots. nt

[southerncrone]

31. C3PO

I'm a worrier, not a warrior....

[DreamGypsy]

32. Gort

The Day the Earth Stood Still.

"Gort...Klaatu barada nikto"



"You misunderstand, I am the master."

[LostOne4Ever]

34. I can't decide!

Data vs Marvin vs Bender!!!!

AGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!

[intaglio]

35. Marvin ...

... but only because all the diodes down my left side are aching

[Warren DeMontague]

36. HK-47

Take that, meatbag.

[Demo_Chris]

38. HAL

[Savannahmann]

39. I'd be Marvin

Marvin from hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Brain the size of a planet, and the most difficult thing he's to do today is escort two people to the bridge.

[no_hypocrisy]

40. Astroboy or Astrogirl

[Earth_First]

42. I'd be GROVELBOT!

[BainsBane]

45. Caprica Six, of course

A very sophisticated, biological machine called a cylon

[dembotoz]

46. number 5 is alive

[MineralMan]

47. How could a poll on DU about robots skip

Grovelbot? Uff da!

[Javaman]

48. you mean I'm not one already?

I repeat the same thing over and over again monday through friday then power down on the weekends to recharge my batteries.

[kentauros]

49. So little love for The Iron Giant.

One of the best American animated movies in a long time, and since. Plus, it was "old skool" animation, not 3D (not that's there's no good 3D, only that it's all we get anymore, other than anime from Miyazaki.)

[siligut]

57. Love The Iron Giant, but wouldn't want to be him

Too hard to blend into society.

[kentauros]

59. However, by the almost end of the movie he was accepted by society.

Not sure what would happen to him after he reassembled. I would assume he'd refuse military work, and what could they do to force him that way?

He'd probably work for Dean, finding derelict vehicles, making abstract art, and eating leftover metal

[bike man]

50. Inasmuch as robots are constructed from scratch, the final product had no say in that

product - it is what it is, what it was made.

[Buzz Clik]

51. ..

Many of these robots were similar.

However, this one is babe-o-roboto-rific!

[MADem]

52. It does not compute! Danger, Will Robinson!

I thought that robot had a good personality!

[Octafish]

53. Trurl...

...or Klaupacius, if they were the only possibilities.

Otherwise, I will continue to fight the arrival of their time.

[RC]

54. Data: He had an insatiable curiosity.

[hunter]

55. And he's fully functional...

[RC]

56. Yeah , dat tooo...

[randome]

61. Other: just the way I am. Only immortal.

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[RedCappedBandit]

62. How can you not include Marvin!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

64. A weathergirl?

[roamer65]

65. Is Dick Cheney robot or cyborg?

Not that I want to be him..ick no...but the question just made me wonder what he really is...

[Electric Monk]

66. Cheney is a cyborg. He'd be dead otherwise. nt