Category Archives: Robot

EDI

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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)

Marvin

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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)

Giant robots

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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)

Terminator T-X

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2003

Terminator Model T-X
– Terminatrix

  • made of poly-mimetic “morphing” material
  • could determine the identity of a person immediately with a sample of blood (DNA)
  • could also remotely control various machines
  • driven by a plasma reactor

EATR

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Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot

Project by

  • Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) 
  •  Cyclone Power Technologies Inc
  •  2003 and 2009 as part of the DARPA military projects
  • forages for plants to fuel itself
  • theoretically operating indefinitely
  • powered by a steam engine

steam engine

  • created by Cyclone Power Technologies
  • Cyclone Waste Heat Engine
  • 2015, EATR is no longer being developed

Military Robot Is a Vegetarian

Spyder Robots

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2002 (2054)

  • Mechanical bot-spyders
    – perform retinal scans to determine identities from eyeballs
  • spherical bodies with tails
    – stored with their legs retracted
    – in each officer’s belt
  • Many released to swarm through an entire area

Minority Report (2002)

Roberto

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2001 (3001)

  • mentally unstable
  • enjoys stabbing people and objects
  • built in 3001
    – by some engineers who wanted to make an insane robot
  • Roberto was executed by an electric magnet
  • Roberto’s brain was placed in Hermes’ robot body Roberto V2.0

AMEE

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2000 (2045)

  • AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Exploration and Evasion)
  • Robot Scout
  • ex-military android
  • four limb appendages with joints that swiveled, turned, pivoted, and spun with claws

Red Planet (2000)