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

[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.

[seekingferret]

Also, do you know Greg Pak's film Robot Stories? In some of the stories, the robots are not very visually obvious, but there might be some good human/robot bonding images there.

[bironic]

And also human mistreatment (sexual harassment) of androids, in the third story!

The first story does have a couple trying to bond with a robot baby. The baby looks like a robot egg.

[seekingferret]

I would also suggest checking out "The Great Repression" episode from "Better Off Ted"... Chumley the spill-cleaning robot whose job is outsourced to a human is one of my favorite robots.