Zathura: A Space Adventure
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Robots
EDI
2005
- EDI (Extreme Deep Invader”)
– nicknamed “Tin Man” - EDI was struck by lightning during a storm, its software and functioning began to change and it went rogue
- UCAV (short for Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle)
- first movie to be combined with a video game when it was released in the Sony PlayStation Portable’s UMD format
“Fear the Sky.”
Stealth (2005)
Alice
- 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge
- 2005 Sportsmobile 4WD
- highly-modified off-road Ford E350 van
- California Institute of Technology’s autonomous Ford E350
- GPSs
- IMUs
- two stereo vision camera pairs
- up to three LADAR units
- a magnetometer,
- a road-following camera
- all talking to up to fourteen blade server computers
- mounted in a clean, climate-controlled, shock-mounted enclosure.
Marvin
2005
- GPP (Genuine People Personalities) Prototype Android
- created by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
- 6-foot tall
- all-knowing, permanently dire, pessimistic, & complaining
Marvin the Paranoid Robot
- originally a 1970s BBC-radio series
- early 1980s TV series
- best-selling series of books
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
T-52 Enryu
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I, Robot
Giant robots
2004 (1939)
- 90 foot tall
- army of Machine Age, radio-controlled robots
- led by a Mysterious Woman (Bai Ling)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)