Robots? Robots!

[jetpack_monkey]

I'm making super-multisource vid about robots that will show at Vividcon this year in the Artificial Life vidshow. I've gathered... quite the collection of sources, but I know there are some areas where I'm not particularly savvy -- like a lot of television, anime, and videogames.

Additionally, not all of the robots that I have source for will make the final vid, so I'm trying to prioritize as best I can.

Are there any robots that would give you great joy to see in such a vid? Leave me a comment!

To get even more specific, here are some areas where I need help:

• Robots being constructed
• Dancing/celebrating robots
• Robots forming bonds with humans
• Robots forming bonds with robots
• Humans being mean to robots
• Human-on-robot violence
• Individual robots physically assaulting humans / revolting against human infrastructure.
• Robot armies / large groups of threatening looking robots

For the purposes of my vid, robots are artificial, inorganic or partially inorganic beings with artificial intelligence (sentient or semi-sentient). No piloted mech suits, remote-controlled 'bots, or human brains in robot bodies. Human-form Cylons are just outside the scope of my vid, as are the nanobots from Big Hero 6. However, The Terminator counts, as do regular cylons, and Baymax. I may include cybermen just to contradict myself, but not Daleks.

Comments

[laurashapiro]

Re your icon: if Tom Servo is in the vid, I will consider it a personal favor. He is my robot boyfriend.

[jetpack_monkey]

I have the entire United Servo Men's Academy Choir, in point of fact. Servo is my favorite!

[laurashapiro]

I think Lost in Space will be a good source for both bonding and being mean. And of course MST3K.

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has some excellent scenes of John repairing Cameron, & of course bonding with her. Plenty of violence & robot armies there too.

[jetpack_monkey]

I've acquired TSCC, but I haven't clipped it yet. I should probably do that.

[rheasilvia]

I still love the gorgeous robot from Fritz Lang's Metropolis - she's the inspiration for so many robots that came after, too.

ETA: Forgot to add, Metropolis (the 1927 film) has excellent shots of a robot being constructed (or turned into an android), a robot dancing to turn human men's heads, a robot leading humans in a revolt, and a robot being destroyed by humans.

[jetpack_monkey]

Oh yes, I have some robot!Maria. Not a ton, because she doesn't really read as a robot after a certain point in the film, which is tricky in a multi-vid like this.

[seekingferret]

I,Robot that movie that never happened has some beautiful shots of a robot factory. As does Attack of the Clones. And I've only seen the first few episodes of Almost Human, but there were some cool shots there of robots being repaired/built/reassembled, and also the point of that show is the human/robot bond.

[jetpack_monkey]

Thanks! I have that one movie that's not based on Asimov even if the title suggests it might be but I haven't really dug into it. Nice to know there's a robot factory section.

[violace]

Dancing Legion!

[jetpack_monkey]

How did I not know about this?

[seekingferret]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1754253/289381.full.gif

[grammarwoman]

Are you including any Ultron shots from the Avengers: AoU trailers?

How are you on the animated sources like "Batman: the Brave and the Bold" or "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes"? It would make my day if you included the assembly line of Phinedroids and Ferbots from the "Phineas and Ferb" episode I, Brobot. The main bad guy has a large robot minion named Norm, who dances in at least a couple of episodes.

The BSG prequel "Caprica" has lots of robot assembly lines, and people being mean to robots, and vice versa.

"Eureka" has many robots, from Deputy Andy (in two different forms) to the flying bots to Tiny the Mars Spider rover.

"AI: Artifical Intelligence" has a ton of violence against robots.

I hope you got something useful out of my monster Excel sheet for Fembots. :) I put a lot of my favorite robots in there: Cameron from "Sarah Connor Chronicles", Ida from "The Middleman", the Buffybot, Eve from WALL-E, RepliCarter from SG-1, Dot from "ReBoot"...

Feel free to ping me if you'd like more.

[jetpack_monkey]

The Fembots spreadsheet has been super-helpful. There's more than a couple sources that are going into the vid because of it (I am being careful not to replicate your clip usage).

D'oh, I completely forgot about Eureka.

I'll check out Phineas and Ferb.

[brokenallbroken]

I seem to remember SD Gundam Force being particularly squeeful and involving at least one Human Friend. They might have danced? It wasn't a particularly serious show most of the time.

[niqaeli]

She's not wearing any proesthetics, but the aesthetic of Janelle Monae's official video for Cold War might be enough (it does make it clear what's going on, in the context of the concept album, but perhaps it's not sufficiently obvious out of context). Anyway for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmORiHNtN4

Cindi Mayweather - Ministry of the Droids might be more useful, footage-wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaHRUyyVEDs. Also Q.U.E.E.N Chaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBUQH-FwA_M.

And again, no proesthetics, but the themes and aesthetic of Q.U.E.E.N itself might work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEddixS-UoU&spfreload=1

(I couldn't think of anything BUT Janelle Monae that you probably haven't already thought of! I mean, you might've thought of her already cos Juls, but. In case you hadn't. :D)

[jetpack_monkey]

I'd thought of her, I'm just having a weird time with robots as performance in terms of the vid.

Like within the context of Flight of the Conchords "Robots" music video, they're robots, but within the context of that context, they're dudes in tin foil and cardboard costumes on a television series about musicians making a music video. AWESOME-o on South Park is Cartman dressed as a robot, but Butters accepts the robotic fantasy as reality. Daft Punk is two dudes in robot costumes, but then aren't all robots that aren't CG, animatronics, or puppets also dudes in suits?

The line is weird enough that I'm shying away from it for the moment until the vid is feeling stronger on the timeline.

[elipie]

You mentioned this but this is my official plea for you to include Baymax. :D

[lilly_the_kid]

I don't know if you're familiar with this, but Schlupp vom grünen Stern (Schlupp from the green star) was one of my favorite programmes as a kid. It's a puppet show about a robot that had a soul and because of this he was sent to the trash planet, but ended up on earth instead. Here's a short clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVQ1KRqA5EQ
The singing is the robot language and the narrator says (I'm paraphrasing a bit): "This was too much for the stern constructors. A schlupp who could sing, a schlupp who had a soul." Anyway, Schlupp in a vid would make me happy :) It has robots being constructed, dancing/celebrating robots, robots forming bonds with humans.

[jetpack_monkey]

Holy crap, that's awesome.

[kiki_miserychic]

2048 has good bonding.

Westworld is fairly menacing to people.

The Animatrix has scenes of robot assembly.

A Clever Dummy could be cool to include.

Winona Ryder's character in Alien Resurrection could work for violence.

AI has human being mean to Jude Law's character and others I think.

There are robots that fall in love on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Vicki on Small Wonder could work.

April and Buffybot on Buffy too. All the robots on Buffy could work, there's Ted and another one and Warrenbot.

Johnny Test has some building of robots and taking apart too.

[jetpack_monkey]

2048? Do you mean 2046? Or something else?

I need to track down some Small Wonder footage, methinks.

[settiai]

I would love if you included Kara, which very much fits into the "Robots being constructed" category. :D

[jetpack_monkey]

Oooooooh. That's very awesome. And heart-breaking.

[swamp_adder]

Ooo, this vid sounds relevent to my interests!

I'd love it if you could include GERTY from Moon. Also Tony Stark's lovable robot arm.

[littleheaven]

Ooh, I hope #5 from Short Circuit is on the list. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091949/ My memory of the movie is hazy but I seem to recall getting quite emotional about that robot :o)

[starlady]

If it's not too late, the tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex are a joy and a delight.

[seekingferret]

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt has a dancing robot, I think in episode 7, who is then subjected to human-on-robot violence.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

YAYYY I am super excited for this!

Will think on the above. ATM I am trying to finish up a super-multisource VVC vid of my own (not robots).

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Okay p.s. Androids, y/n? (Data/Lore/Lal had some nice maintenance shots, for ex.)

•Robots being constructed - Metropolis, I think?
•Robots forming bonds with humans - Short Circuit for some reason came straight to mind <3
•Robots forming bonds with robots - WALL-E! So much WALL-E - Eve, the other garbage compactor, all the robots in the infirmary...
•Robot armies / large groups of threatening looking robots - my go-to reference for this would be charmax's Seven Nation Army

[shannonsequitur.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that Bender from Futurama could potentially cover a lot of these.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I have a ton of Bender and other Futurama 'bots! They are so very useful for plugging up holes in the timeline, given that the show's run long enough that every permutation of robot tropage has happened at one point or another.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

Twiki and Dr. T (Robots on Buck Rogers as Dr. T was just a head that Twiki carried around on his chest) and then Twiki and Buck. I am sure they walked hand in hand and were adorable.

Muppet (robotic dog) in original BSG forming relationship with Boxy. (The scene is in the credits.)

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks. I do have a single shot of Twiki, but I haven't dug deeper into the Buck Rogers episodes I have for more.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Seeing C-3PO would make me very happy. R2D2 too, but really, my heart belongs to the stuffy gold one.

Also happymaking would be:
- The robot from Robot and Frank
- Robby & the one from Lost in Space
- TARS from Interstellar
- The Robot Chicken
- David from Prometheus (if androids are included)
- A cameo by a real-life robot such as Kismet

Oh speaking of human-robot affection: https://www.google.com/search?q=tv+robots&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&biw=1304&bih=712&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=UmIwVfrEBde3yASWjIGYAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACSxoQv24w-aIIjioNbxhCipAQbJGh10FRXqFdTPx_1nyvYIsDcfj5vGstiG3jeEKYcGCBPsaNvMcNsEcob7nFYR7-aCoSCag1vGEKKkBBEZv-dvoHZzdNKhIJskaHXQVFeoURm_152-gdnN00qEgl1M_1H-fK9gixG7oFEp1CDybSoSCQNx-Pm8ay2IEQGryRLrhjkaKhIJbeN4QphwYIERB2OXVTH8O1AqEgk-xo28xw2wRxFxQVuDGPXRYioSCShvucVhHv5oEQ11feGskSCz&q=banderas%20automata

And for human-robot violence, there's Buffy fighting with robostepdad John Ritter in "Ted."

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Does the Tin Man count? I would also <3 seeing him.

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[destina.livejournal.com]

There is a lot of robot-human bonding, robots menacing humans, robot armies (sort of), and maybe some robots being constructed (can't remember exactly) in I, Robot (the Will Smith vehicle).

Also to point out the obvious, the robot army in Star Wars The Phantom Menace.

And my personal favorite, Gort, in The Day The Earth Stood Still, wiping out the human weapons near the start of the movie when he felt Klaatu was threatened.

Not sure if the Fembots from The Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man would be outside the scope, especially when their faceplates are off, but they did a lot of beating up the heroes.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

I have the BW/6MDM Fembots ripped. We'll see if I end up using them.

Thanks for pointing out the depths of I, Robot. I hadn't properly clipped the film yet.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

I have to second the vote for Muffit from the original Battlestar Galactica. The robotic daggit is actually Muffit II, which was built for Apollo's son Boxey when his real daggit was killed in a Cylon attack. This is the show of my pre-teen years, and it is very near to my heart. If you're looking for human/robot bonding, it's here in spades. Have a link-
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Muffit

Another fun robot that comes to mind is Rosie, the maid on The Jetsons.

Another robot from my childhood is Johnny Sako and His Flying Robot. OMG SO AWESOME! Have another link-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnczokOnWjg

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

Alas, Johnny Sokko's robot seems to be mostly of the piloted variety (albeit remotely). However, I will take Muffit under advisement, especially as I do have the entire classic BSG series.

[aeirould.livejournal.com]

Beymax.  He is all the things a sentient robot (ahem, Personal Healhcare Assisstant/Badass Fighter) should be.