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What are your favorite fictional robot/AI characters? (hexbear.net)

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I'll start off by listing mine:

The T-800, Terminator 2: "I know now why you cry, but it's something that I can never do." Gets me every damn time.

ADA, Zone of the Enders: I think I'm the only one who played this game more than the MGS2 demo that came with it. I will never not laugh at the exchange of "You may speak like a human, but you're still a heartless computer, aren't you?" "That is correct. What is the problem?"

Codsworth, Fallout 4: He survives the nuclear holocaust despite not having a bunker and waits 200 years for you to come back. When you look at what changes his relationship with you, he mostly just wants you to be nice to people. I never swapped him out as my companion.

B.O.Y.D., Ducktales 2017: He's adorable. 'nuff said.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Johnny 5, the movies from the late 80's or early 90's. Tiny Tank from the video game Tiny Tank. Both have the same vibe as a smart alec'y cutesy death machine.

The robots from Issac Asimov's "Caliban" series, though I've only read the first book. Mostly due to how it flips the script on the "Three Laws of Robotics" and frames it as the chains that humans had been to enslave what were essentially sentient and self aware artificial intelligences.

And because I have absolutely no taste and am a horrible person who likes garbage... I always find myself enjoying the Bolos from the Bolo series of books.