
PJ_Dtechy
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hello fellow robots hobbyist, I have been silently away from the forums for about 6 months, due to my personal life. I finally graduated college with my first degree ( yeiiii me). I recently landed a new job, about to launch my own business. Now it's time to get back to robotics, impatiently waiting to play with the V4.
What are your favorites robots movies?
what inspire you?
Iron Man trilogy
Short Circuit
loki
Almost humans
R2D2
and of course EZ-Robot
j
Bicentennial Man is another awesome one, masses of inspiration from this one for me for a project I've not announced yet.
iRobot wasn't bad but to be honest wasn't any inspiration to me.
Short Circuit 1 & 2
Cody the Robosapien
I'm sure I've missed a ton too.
Wall-e of course
The Questor tapes
Not a robot, but inspired me to start learning how to program...
From our greatest generation... The Apollo guidance computer (written in machine language might I add)
Forbidden Planet (1957) - Robby the Robot (Very cool movie. Way ahead of its time)
The Black Hole - Maximilian (one bad dude!)
Silent Running -Huey, Dewey, and Louie
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Gort
Star Wars -R2D2
Short Circuit Johnny 5
Terminator II -T-800
Transformers-Optimus Prime
Bicentennial Man (My favorite movie)
robocop-terminator and book archie man off steel
For me, top 3 without thinking, it's R2D2 (R2 units in general), C3PO and The Transformers (all of them).
My Collection
Ultimately though, Bioloids made me believe I could realistically make a "cool" humanoid robot. Then I discovered EZB. I could afford it and it's taught me a lot this far. I couldn't be happier. C'mon V4s!
Spielberg's A.I
and.. I use to wish those robots in Galactica..
Tevans
As far as movies go, Like many in my generation, Lost in Space defined robots for me growing up. Until I was in High School, when I heard the word "robot" I pictured the Lost in Space Robot. As far as more modern movies, I think that it is a toss up for me between "I Robot" with Will Smith, and "Real Steel." I think that it is because both of them seem fairly realistic, (world domination aside) with a hint of the robots becoming more than just machines. I do believe that as programming becomes more and more complex the line between consciousness and algorithm will become blurred.
Or as Dr Lanning pondered in "I Robot"
"There have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code, that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul.When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?"
I guess of all the choices, Wall-E wins. He just makes me smile every time I see him.
Alan
I liked "Lost is space".
"2001: A Space Odyssey" was great, "Dave, I cannot do that". Self awareness surfaced.
I remember taking my wife to "A.I.". We were the only ones in the theater!
Star Trek Lt. Commander DATA was my FAVORITE!
I also liked "I,Robot", Sonny with the bug (ability planted) to be more.
EZ Robot is the closest thing I have found to completing my dreams, and it is advancing!
Hang on!
Steve S
I was a huge Star Wars fan, I still have all the original action figures and things packed away in storage, I even have unopen ones, along with the comic books, all in plastic :-}
And of course, Knight Rider, KITT, he was one of my favorite cars next to The General Lee and The Coyote from Hardcastle and McCormick, cannot forget Airwolf and Blue Thunder, two kickass helicopters :-}
And then there was Robo Cop :-}
@stonewolf KITT my favorite car, lol i added the led strip to my bmw that scan just like it, change my head unit to an android system with the A.I ( app call speaktoit).
I was very young when I watched it the first time, and barely spook english back then, but I now still have a good laugh just thinking about it !
btw, this is my very first post
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself in to its external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the Universe to it," said Marvin.<
"And what happened?" pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide," said Marvin and stalked off back to the Heart of Gold.