America's Favorite Fictional Robots

Bender Bending Rodríguez is one of the main characters in the animated television series “Futurama.” He’s something of a comic antihero and is described by a fellow character as an “alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler.”

H.A.L. (short for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) is the antihero of Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” He has to be shut down after killing crew members on the Discovery One spaceship.

Ava, played by Alicia Vikander in the psychological thriller “Ex Machina,” is a feminine humanoid robot with artificial intelligence.

B-9 was a robot with human characteristics in the 1960s television series “Lost in Space.” He was known for his catchphrases “It does not compute” and “Danger, Will Robinson!” (The latter, derived originally from a Mark Twain quote, has come to mean “You’re about to do something stupid.”)

Data made his debut in the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and subsequently appeared in “Star Trek: Picard,” and some of the Star Trek feature films. He has been described as a successor to Spock from the original television series — an outsider with superior mental abilities.

KITT is an acronym for both Knight Industries Two Thousand and Knight Industries Three Thousand, in both cases an advanced automobile with artificial intelligence — in short, a talking car.

R2-D2 is a straight-up robot and C-3PO is his humanoid robot counterpart in the “Star Wars” franchise. They provide a measure of comic relief against the other characters.

Optimus Prime is a Cybertronian, one of a fictional extraterrestrial species of sentient self-configuring modular robotic lifeforms — a Transformer, in other words.

WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-Class) is a trash compacting robot, the only one of his kind still functioning on an Earth that has become a garbage-strewn wasteland by the 29th century.

The T-1000 is a new Terminator, a shapeshifting android аssаssin — a kick-аss bad guy — made out of a so-called mimetic polyalloy, which accounts for his ability to change forms.

The Iron Giant is a 50-foot alien robot who befriends a nine-year-old boy against a backdrop of the Cold War in this animated film based on the 1968 novel “The Iron Man” by English poet and children’s writer Ted Hughes.

RoboCop is a cyborg law enforcer created by Omni Consumer Products by reviving a real police officer who is shot to death by a gang of villains in a dystopian Detroit.

Baymax is an inflatable healthcare robot who knows 10,000 medical procedures. He and his friends are transformed into a band of high-tech heroes by robotics prodigy Hiro.

Ultron is a highly intelligent robot designed by Avengers Tony Stark and Bruce Banner as the head of a peacekeeping program. He misunderstands and goes rogue, believing that he must eradicate humanity — and the Avengers must stop him.

Voltron is a giant super robot piloted by a team of five space explorers in the television series of the same name.

In the film “I, Robot,” highly intelligent robots fill public service positions in a dystopian world and operate under the Three Rules of Robotics, originally devised by science fiction giant Isaac Asimov. Sonny, in this film loosely based on Asimov’s stories, is a different kind of robot who can ignore these rules.

Vision is an android, also called a synthezoid, created by Ultron as a weapon against the Avengers.

The Daleks are merciless, Nazi-like cyborg aliens bent on the conquest of the universe and the extermination of what they regard as inferior races in the second British television series featuring Doctor Who.

Rosie is the Jetson family’s robotic maid and housekeeper in this animated science fiction sitcom — created by Hanna-Barbera as a counterpoint to their caveman series “The Flintstones.”

Andrew Martin, played by Robin Williams, is an android servant of the Martin family who displays creativity and emotions and wants to become human.

Maria is a feminine robot based on a human of that name in the Fritz Lang classic “Metropolis,” one of the first fictional robots ever depicted in film and one of the most famous.

TARS is one of four former United States Marine Corps tactical robots in the film “Interstellar” — a crew member of the spacecraft Endurance, which is carrying frozen human embryos to settle a habitable planet.

Number Six is a seductive, statuesque humanoid Cylon in the miniseries “Battlestar Galactica,” based on the original 1978 series and a prelude to the 2004 revival. There are several versions of the character, who was named after Number Six in the classic 1960s show “The Prisoner.”

Gadget is a cyborg with numerous high-tech devices installed in his body. He’s a powerful and protective lawman, but can also be clueless and incompetent. The original animated series led to numerous spinoffs, both animated and live-action, in the form of further TV series and films.

One of the most iconic robots of all, Robby is a mechanical servant created by the mysterious Dr. Morbius, ruler of the planet Altair IV, in this classic sci-fi film loosely based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”. He exhibits artificial intelligence and has a distinct personality. Robby subsequently appeared, in various forms, in countless TV shows and movies.