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All Hail Our Robot Overlords! Sci-Fi's Best Bots

These androids, cyborgs and other memorable machines made their marks on movies and television in the past century. They will be remembered long after their robotic brothers are shipped off to the scrap heap.
  • Bender from Futurama
  • Sentinels from Matrix
  • Roy Batty
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Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term robot in the 1921 play R.U.R., spawning a deluge of artificial life forms in popular culture. Wired.com assembled this list of androids, cyborgs and other memorable machines that left their indelible imprints on movies and television shows in the ensuing nine decades. They will be remembered long after their robotic brothers are shipped off to the great scrap heap in sky (located somewhere near the outer edge of the solar system). Got your own favorites? Show your robot love in the comments section below. Above:

Bender

Source code: Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's hard-to-kill sci-fi spoof Futurama. Execute win! Despite being a suicidal, self-absorbed jerk, can still save face ... and the day. Major malfunction: Does not compute.

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