Who’s The Best Robot/Android Ever?

By Alex in Film on Jan 29, 2010 at 1:32 pm

What better way to start off a geek fight than to ask who is the greatest movie or TV robot/android? Curtis Silver of Geek Dad did just that by comparing Data from Star Trek, to just about every other android.

For example, just to add fuel to the raging Star Trek vs. Star Wars debate:

Data vs. C3PO

C3PO can understand and translate around six million different forms of communication. Mind you, he was designed and built by a young boy. While the Midi-chlorians might have been high in young Skywalker’s bloodstream, they didn’t help him build a droid with much of a backbone. Meanwhile, in a galaxy far far away Dr. Soong was busy creating a sentient android of his own with not only a backbone, but a badass positronic brain. It’s never made clear how many languages Data can speak, but one has to assume the number is just as high as C3PO. Advantage: Data

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What do you think? Who’s the best robot/android that ever lived (well, in sci-fi anyhow)?


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  2. FiatVeritas
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 2:29 pm

    Marvin (from HHTTG) or The Doctor (From ST:Voyager).

  3. ragazzambulante
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    The doctor from Voyager was a hologram (EMH, Emergency Medical Hologram)…. ohmigosh, I think I just admitted to being a geek…..

  4. swissonian
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    definately data, c3po was only a trashcan making noise with people around pretending to understand something like on sesame street, data ist a very complex character, funny und almost tragic in his persuit of becoming more human while being more human then he might think.

  5. John Farrier
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    Geek Dad compares apples and oranges. Of his list, only Kryten is an actual android. The others are either straight robots or cyborgs.

    I mean, C3PO would have zero chance of bedding Tasha Yar….

  6. SusanRR
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    Data wins every time, as far as I’m concerned!

  7. Larry David
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Bishop!

  8. Labbie
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

    R. Daneel Olivaw.

    ‘nuf said.

  9. R2D2
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 7:16 pm

    Bleep-Blueii-Deet-Twoi-Blook-Doop-Toeii.

    Translation:

    Data needs an IPad… Wait, I’ll get one from C3P0′s crotch!!!

  10. mike Z
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 9:37 pm

    How is it that Data can speak so many languages (or even far more difficult aspects of English), yet he cannot handle simple English contractions, linguistic devices that some languages cannot be spoken without?

    Answer: Start Trek:TNG creators weren’t using their positronic brians when they wrote that tidbit in.

    Apparently, 3PO even came stock with the functional equivalent Data’s coveted emotion chip, so that mitigates his puss factor somewhat. But then Data could please the ladies, so wth?

  11. Bryce Rasmussen
    Jan 29th, 2010 at 11:02 pm

    Kryten! Yep, from Red Dwarf-best robot ever! And he speaks more languages than Data, anyways. Any robot with several heads will automatically rule all.

  12. tigergal39
    Jan 30th, 2010 at 12:28 am

    Data!! He is anatomicaly correct, and has been programmed in multiple techniques. I think C3P0′s hands would be too cold.

  14. JCW
    Jan 30th, 2010 at 12:13 pm

    Yul Brenner’s character from the movie Westworld was pretty bad-a**.

  15. manumission
    Jan 30th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

    Sonny from iRobot… but I still like Data. The issue I have with all of these Hollywood robots is that they’re too slow. With a processor for a brain, their sense of time would be completely different than ours. They would be able to react 1,000 times faster than humans. A second to them would be like hours or days to us.

  16. Daniel Ratgeber
    Jan 30th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    I think all or at least the vast majority who work in this world have some of this, what happens is that you expose some more and others less so … but we’ll see who will be the best.

  17. lurgidbee
    Jan 30th, 2010 at 6:41 pm

    R. Daneel Olivaw…. from Asimov’s Robot and Foundation series, by far.
    One of the most breathtaking events in science fiction occurs when you find out that one of the main characters all along was actually a humanoid robot!.. and one that can read minds at that…and has been alive for thousands of years, controlling man’s destiny behind the scenes.

  18. Patron Zero
    Jan 31st, 2010 at 3:55 pm

    Showing my age here but wondering why Robby of Forbidden Planet hasn’t been mentioned.

    If nothing else his ability to produce Kentucky Bourbon justifies his existence !

  19. Mitch
    Feb 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    I liked the shiny neurotic homosexual robot in Star Wars.

  20. Zombiekid
    Feb 5th, 2010 at 3:27 am

    Hands down, Bishop.

  21. Ebie
    Feb 7th, 2010 at 5:49 am

    For me Data is best by a mile. His human appearance made possible Spiner’s incredible acting job, which is why he’s so much cooler than any other android ever.


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