thanks for sharing video of loki.

:) j

Iron Man is up there with the best of them which should be obvious as is the sole inspiration behind Jarvis and my home automation system. 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.

Lost in space (the movie, not the series) 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)

Lost in Space - B9 Robot (first robot to inspire me as a kid) 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)

loki is amazing.love it when he blinks robocop-terminator and book archie man off steel

Welcome back @PJ_Dtechy, I was just reading your battery primer thread about a week ago. Glad to hear you're doing well. I've always learned a lot from your posts. Glad to have you back.

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!

Star wars! all of them. Spielberg's A.I and.. I use to wish those robots in Galactica..

:) Tevans

Loki is coming out awesome! That is real genius there. I cannot get over how lifelike it seems.

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?"