Willow Garage Fictional Robot Survey Results
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 30 of November , 2010 at 12:22 am
You took Willow Garage’s favorite fictional robot survey, right? Right? Sure you did, and here are the results. Try to contain your dismay:
1. R2-D2, from Star Wars (81.5% ‘Like It’ votes)
2. Bender, from Futurama (76.4%)
3. WALL-E (73.9%)
4. Marvin, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (66.3%)
5. HAL 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey (65.4%)
6. Eve, from WALL-E (62.7%)
7. T-800 or T-1000 from The Terminator (60.8%)
8. Data, from Star Trek: Next Generation (60.1%)
9. C-3PO, from Star Wars (58.9%)
10. Johnny Five, from Short Circuit (53.3%)
11. Optimus Prime, from Transformers (52%)
12. Sonny, from I, Robot (49.8%)
13. KITT, from Knight Rider (40.1%)
14. Cylons, from Battlestar Galactica (39.9%)
15. Rosie the Maid, in The Jetsons (27.8%)
Yes, I’m feeling the nerd rage too, but here’s what WG has to say on who wasn’t included:
We also received nearly 200 write-in votes for our readers’ favorite fictional robots. Many of them were in our internal survey and didn’t get enough support to make the public survey, but there were some great examples that we just missed. All of these received multiple votes: the robot Andrew in Bicentennial Man; the robot servant GIR from the Invader Zim TV series; GLaDOS from the video game Portal; the robots V.I.N.CENT (“Vital Information Necessary CENTralized”), B.O.B. (BiO-sanitation Battalion), and Maximilian from the movie The Black Hole were all mentioned; R. Daneel Olivaw, who appears is Isaac Asimov’s Robot/Foundation Series.
R2-D2 is fine, and I love Wall-E, but GIR… GIR is something, you know, special.
Click through to see how the community choices differed from Willow Garage’s internal survey… Apparently, some of the people who work there are, like, old, or something.
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Comment by granit
Made Monday, 4 of July , 2011 at 3:46 am
.) There is noticeably a bundle to know about this. I assume you made certain nice points in features also.
Comment by kayrak taşı
Made Monday, 4 of July , 2011 at 4:31 am
.) This really answered my problem, thank you!
Comment by a2521588
Made Thursday, 10 of November , 2011 at 7:36 am
I’ve said that least 2521588 times. The problem this like that is they are just too compilcated for the average bird, if you know what I mean
