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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[violace]

Dancing Legion!

[jetpack_monkey]

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

[jetpack_monkey]

How did I not know about this?

[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.

[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.

[jetpack_monkey]

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

[violace]

It's the best thing. There are more videos of that on YT, mostly recorded in his room on the Normandy, but I'm pretty sure he'll do it anywhere if you stare at him long enough.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[laurashapiro]

Yay! I can't wait to see!

[laurashapiro]

Worth doing!

[niqaeli]

On the topic of Eureka, there's also SARAH.

And totally tangentially, if you happen to have a spreadsheet or document that lists all your various potential sources you have accumulated for this vid I would love to see it? I still haven't actually given up on my multi-vid of doom happening some day and some AI/robots stuff needs to go in there. >_>;

[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)

[elipie]

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

[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.

[grammarwoman]

:) You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

I am eagerly anticipating the results of your labors!

[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.

[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.