Where's Wall-E (and other robots)

[Fenix001]

As Amber just tweeted this i decided it deserved a repost here.
It is officially epic


and for those that want to be a little OCD-y(*) about it, i found this:



super quick edit, there is (was) a competition for naming all the robots. maybe a collective submission?


footnotes
(*) it should be called CDO, then it is in alphabetical order

 

[Lydia_Deetz]

Love it!

One question though, I saw the tin-man in there, he isn't actually a robot is he?

 

[BullFrogBlues]

Love it!

One question though, I saw the tin-man in there, he isn't actually a robot is he?

There is a Dalek in there too... not really a robot either.

 

[Keithy]

The Tin Man would lead you to believe he's a golem. He is in fact basically a robot with a human brain however. He was originally human but after a curse was put on him for falling in love with a munchkin, he lopped off ALL of his body parts and had them replaced one at a time with the "tin" mechanical parts (can't be tin since tin doesn't rust). There was however a flesh golem created from his old parts (similar to Frankenstein's monster).
A "Dalek" is a robot that is controlled from inside by the real Dalek. Much the same as any Mecha is a robot. This depends a bit on how tough you define a robot, since some definitions would require it to be autonomous. The Dalek requires a driver, like a vehicle (can even be human) BUT so do a lot of things we consider robots (Robot Wars RC Robots) and even without direct drivers, many require a programmer.

 

[Goal]

Woody Allen from "Sleeper" (don't remember the character name) isn't technically a robot either - he's a human trying to pass himself off as one.

There is an impressive away from robots from a wide variety of geeky sources present in this pic though.

And I recognize far more than I probably should.

 

[Dazza235]

Wow, great find Fenix/Amber - do you know the source?
(or the artist, I don't recognise the signature).
I can't believe how many are in there - there's even Metal Mickey (49) from a woeful British sitcom made early '80s (got the theme stuck in my head again, some things never go away however much you'd like them to).

And on the at-least-slightly-organic-robot list, you could add The Big Guy (59) - that was a robot with a pilot inside.

And 790 from the great sci-fi comedy Lexx (102) had parts of a human brain in his head which helped explain his pathological infatuation with Zev/Xev.

Totally made my morning :-D :dance:

 

[schlmoe]

Artist is Richard Sargent. Here is the contest info: http://www.hopewellstudios.com/index.ph ... &Itemid=35

Answers to richard@hopewellstudios.com. Contest ends 8/31/11...get busy!

 

[WickedTouch]

Nice thread though... really great picture. Nice to see the cute little bots from Silent Running... great movie... Named Huey Dewey And Louie if I recall right...

.. and on that partly-organic theme, in Doctor Who the Cybermen are exactly that... human/robot hybrids...

 

[Keithy]

Nice thread though... really great picture. Nice to see the cute little bots from Silent Running... great movie... Named Huey Dewey And Louie if I recall right...

.. and on that partly-organic theme, in Doctor Who the Cybermen are exactly that... human/robot hybrids...

Moreso they're a robot built on top of an organic host. It's as human as a corpse and the robot merely takes advantage of the structures already built. That is if I convert a warehouse into office space, it's not really still a warehouse, I'm just using what was a warehouse. So it's a robot on an organic platform but I would hardly call it human.