I think the way the list has been categorized is wrong. After all, it is mankind who has the intention to deploy robots for specific purposes. So, the main category should be : mankind's intention ( or purpose). Because that is what reality is about, concerning robots. The category "Plausibilty" is not sufficient, because it says nothing about the intention or the purpose behind the robot.

Besides, there is a lot of mix-up between robots, androids, replicants and computers. "The best movie ROBOTS" should stick to ROBOTS only, otherwise the title fails, right?

George, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ye are daft!
The greatest and certainly the most desirable artiificial life form HAS to be Rachel, the female replicant in Blade Runner.

I cannot imagine a man with a pulse that would not want to have her around.

MAC, Tampa,, Florida USA

I would have included Bomb 20 from John Carpenters classic sc-fi "Dark Star" with its hilarious existential conversation of "phenomenology" with one of the crew.

Sedgwick Morrison, London,

noone put up the "mandroid" from eliminators (a crappy movie , but a decent cyborg costume/props)

also , johnny-five was much more plausible than ed-209 , as the body was actually a real robot. , the personan granted may have been a bit out.

paul, rockford, il

i assume the cylons in your list are from the original series? what about from the new one?

Debra , Melbourne, Australia

I wish you had included the Daleks from the Dr Who (British) series.

Plausible 7
Coolness 3
Dangerousness 9
Comedy 7 (especially when they had to negotiate a set of stairs)

Robb, Spokane, WA

organic creatures are not true robots, borgs are close but are still organic.

Good Greif has no one thought of ASTROBOY....

Paul, Brisbane,

Daleks are not robots they are armour for genetically modfied Kaleds...

Si, London, UK

Skimming through these comments I see a lot of love for Roy Batty from Blade Runner. Whatever he is, he isn't a robot: You can distinguish a robot from a human with a simple x-ray image, MRI scan, etc. You wouldn't need a long & complicated personality test.

Whatever the Replicants are, and the film is very inconsistent on that point, they ain't robots.

Mikey, Wapping, UK

This list is fun for use as a remembering tool, as in, "Oh yeah, remember that movie?! Cool!" But for the point values you might as well have used a random number generator for all the appropriateness the ratings you gave have. Let's see: R2D2 plausibility 5 coolness 10?! Are you on crack? Why would a robot whose sole purpose is to operate computers and fighter ships and do astronav have to be 3 feet tall, and why would it not have a VOICE SYNTHESIZER built in so it wouldn't require a translator droid to accompany it everywhere? And C3PO gets a 3 for coolness but the laser-armed, tread-driven combat robots from Short Circuit get a ZERO?! You people are retarded. Why bother to give the numerical ratings if they're going to be this friggin' stupid? Just shoulda listed the robots you remember liking and that's it.

PJ, WPB, FL

The Iron Giant should be on there, too. He's got incredibly powerful weapons, but overcomes his destructive nature, and he's friendly and amusing. I agree about Bender. Probably my favorite robot of all time.

Leah, Urbana, IL

In regards to #29 - Electroma... Comedy Value 10? Daft Punk themselves are awesome, but Electroma is a very sad movie.

Paul L, Nowheresville,

The United States Congress! They would have to take the top of that list in every category except coolness! Plausibility - Certainly fooling hundreds of millions of people that they are real. Dangerousness - I don't even have to elaborate that one! Comedy Value - Oh man! I could go on for hours...days...weeks!!! Just look at the latest fiasco! Larry Craig! Staunch GOP neocon, outspoken critic of gays and he gets arrested for trying to get it on with a male undercover cop in an airport rest room! A former lawyer, Craig pleads guilty but now that it has all become public, he says it was a mistake! Come on, you couldn't pay top dollar in Vegas for a comedy show as good as this!!

Larry, New York, USA

Where is Super King??

1: Bender (Futurama)

"Impending para un bending!"

Plausibility: 5 Coolness: 12 Dangerousness:10 Comedy Value:10

Alejandro, San Diego,

Have to agree with the Roy Batty vote, but in reality that would be the same as data because he was an android rather than a robot!!

The one I do not agree with is the spiders from lost in space!
They were organic spiders! They were not robots! When one of them scratches Dr Smith he catches a virus from it that mutates him.

Gary, Rochester,

BladeRunner?????????????+

carl, Gothenburg,

I 'm very surprised that you think of "Data" as a robot when in fact he is a andriod who even had a Court Hearing to delcare him a sentient being.

j, wl,

What? No Rutger Hauer/Roy Batty from Blade Runner? Technically he is a cyborg, not a robot, but still. 10 for plausability and 11 for coolness.

Jan, Norway,

What about Ro-Man, from "Robot Monster", you know-nothings?

He may only have been a guy in a gorilla costume with a diving helmet (Comedy Value 10), but he destroyed all but half-a-dozen of the human race (Dangerousness 10).

Furthermore, he was only defeated by the most deadly weapon in the Universe (love), thus highlighting the fundamental flaw in your whole article - you didn't include Pathos in your criteria. All fictional robots (the non-trivial ones anyway - what's the point in having them otherwise?) end up as tragic heros, more human than their creators, etc. etc.
Except the baddie robots in Star Trek, which blow up if you give them a logical paradox (EG. "This statement is a lie", tick tick whirr, smoke flash BANG, "Phew, that was a close one, Captain!").

So Ro-man gets an extra 10 for Pathos, which I think you'll find shoots him to Number 1.

Patrick Simpson, Oxford, UK

robert patrick number one i think...

veli, ankara, turkey

You forgot about Cherry 2000 from the movie of the same name. Woo Hoo!

Israel, Providence,

I-Robot -robots..
oh yeah!!!

laureen, leeds, England

Along with the replicants from Bladerunner, could we also include Harrison Ford's character Deckard? The deeper plot of the story is that Deckard may also be a replicant. Rachel didn't know that she was a replicant until Deckard revealed her artificial memories of spiders hatching. Oh no! Maybe I'm a replicant too.....

Neil, Northampton, Northants

11: R2-D2 (Star Wars franchise)

"Your droids! We don't serve their kind here!"

Tut, tut! That should read: "You're droids!" Not "Your droids".

janaltus, Hackney, London, England

Joe I can't remember the name of that Disney film either but that "Robot" could not move unless someone was inside it to control it. It wasn't a robot but armor with A.I..

That aside Bender should be at number 1!
With Kryten, Iron Giant and R2 - D2 making an apperance somewhere.

Claire , Hatfield, England

Metal Mickey, anyone? (I know, not a movie robot strictly). Still, I feel ought to be considered for nostalgic value at least.

amfar, London,

The person who wrote this list has absolutely no idea of what engineering is actually capable off. All the plausibility ratings should have been left to a group of engineers who know what they are talking about.
It was 1903 when the Kittyhawk flew a few of yards, if somebody had said in 1951 the Bell-X1 would break the sound barrier they would have be send to a mental hospital.
Now a days it is only people who are unable to grasp reality due to a mental illness that have an excuse for not believing any of these robots are already in the process of being designed or already in actual military testing facilities as early prototypes. It is a fact of life that humans themselves are the real robots unable of truly individual thought =/<100% of the time, but by comparison to a microchip =/<100% utterly useless. Having a good understanding of engineering I say would a fully functional humanoid robot will exist in 25yrs max.
The rest of the rating system though is not too far from accurate.

Rogerson, Leeds, Britain

Who the heck wrote this list?? Half the top ten are duds -- I Robot? Bill and Ted? Judge Dredd? Virtuosity Lost in Space? In the top 10?? These robots are better than 3PO, the T-1000, Gort, the Gunslinger, R2, Marvin, Data and Bishop? No way! Seriously, folks...

rassmguy, Tatooine,

What, no Lost In Space B-9 Robot?....."WARNING.. DANGER WILL ROBINSON".

No Astroboy or Iron Giant either. Whoever compiled this list fell asleep at the wheel :-)

Pete, Chicago,

Why does Johnny 5 (Short Circuit) have no coolness points!!!! He was and is way cool, especially when he's mad.

Peter Smith, Kaitaia, Northland, New Zealand

Adam Link anybody? The first serious robot in SF from Otto Binder, although only seen on TV, as was the robot granny from Bradbury's I Sing The Body Electric and Rosie, the Jetson's maid. Does The Golem count? Tetsuo, the iron man? There's Kurt Russell's Soldier, Mario Van Peeple's Solo, and Van Damme and Lundgren in Universal Soldier

H C Beck, PHX, AZ

Arnold Schwartzenegger, in most of his films. Plausability 0 but high on all other scores.

Eddie Kent, Norwich, England

Where's the Iron Giant???

Kalen Knowles, Seattle, WA,

and none of the replicants in Blade Runner make it...Roy Batty, Pris, Rachel. Deckard ..c'mon guys ...'More human than Human'.

...but then all these things will be gone soon..like teardrops in rain..

Andrew, London,

Replicants from Blade Runner should have been included, they are robots, they're manufactured.

mike jones , tacoma,

How is it possible that someone forgot the T-1000 from Terminator 2?

Ricky Stevens, Boston, MA

The HAL 9000 fits with a robot. The Discovory was run by the HAL 9000. The whole ship was a robot as it did not need a crew to complete its mission.

Aaron Rattner, Valley Village, Ca

This list was obviously compiled by some very damaged people. That evil Bill & Ted ended up higher on the list than all of the Star Wars robots and HAL 9000 gets a coolness rating of 10 speaks of some very messed up priorities.

Kate, Seattle, WA, USA

What happened to Daleks, K9, Robocop, Muffet and the garbage can robots from Undersea Kingdom?!

Ian, Melbourne,

what about the big red guy from the original battlestar galactica? (what was his ID?) What of IG-88 of star wars...far more badass than many as only one of four IG's that go rogue...very goal oriented, and incredibly savvy at finding the easiest way to reach those goals...Very dangerous, Very cool, not in the least funny, (but a little obsure to some).

Jeremy, indy`, IN

Robert "@fm" Baker in London says that Replicants are "Mutants"... No. They were androids. A mutant would be a living being that has been altered, where as, the Replicants in Bladerunner were created from the ground up artificially. -Mechanical in origin.

Ian Smithers, Seattle, Washington

What, no place for Roy Batty from Scott's classic, Blade Runner?! "I've seen things ... seen things you little people wouldn't believe..."

Rob Browne, Vienna, Austria

A SUMMATION-

IRON GIANT, the TIN MAN and EDWARD SCISSORHANDS are the most obviously absent. ASTROBOY, GODDARD (Jimmy's dog), ROBOT from Lost in Space, & the bot from ZATHURA are also missing. Folks, replicants and Daleks are not classed as robots. In case yur confused, Melanie Griffith was not a robot in CHERRY 2000. KIT, Cylons and Twiki are also not "MOVIE robots". Although according to Wikipedia's definition, Max Headroom, Pinnochi, Buzz Lightyear and many a Harryhausen creation qualify as robots.

Other memorable robots I remember are the CRONOS device, the Thumb Thumbs from SPY KIDS, psychorobot from HARDWARE, ULYSEES (John Malkovich) from Making Mr Right, sex robot from Heavy Metal, crazy enforcer ball from THE PRISONER, flying killer brain drills from PHANTASM, or the CUBE. Fleischer's 'Mechanical Monsters' (as in Superman vs...) are at least alluded to.

Lets blot out Heartbeeps and A.I. shall we?

Rick, Los Angeles,

where the heck is the iron giant?? 10s on coolness dangerousness & comedy value are obvious, even if the dangerousness only comes when in defense mode. plausibility? 0. still list-worthy.

Brice J Hagerman, Galloway, OH

Don't forget The Iron Giant from the Disney film of the same name

Trevor, Wisconsin Dells,

Someone stole my thunder and already mentioned the hilarious talking planet-destroying bomb in the movie "Dark Star." So I will put in a mention for: Tobor the Great, a cheesy 50's sci-fi movie robot. It rates about a 10 on the unintentional comedy rating.

Tom, Dallas, TX

Should not have been included in the list: HAL9000 (as many others have said, HAL is a computer, not a robot).

Rightly not included: the Daleks/the Borg (cyborgs, not robots); the Replicants from Blade Runner (mutants, not robots); the MCP from TRON (a program -- not even corporeal). If the MCP qualified, it would be beaten for sheer evil by Windows ME. :-)

Should have been included: the Omnidroid from The Incredibles (a Dangerousness rating of at least 12).

Robert "@fm" Baker, London,

What happened to Daleks, K9, Robocop and the garbage can robots from Undersea Kingdom?!

Ian, Melbourne,

"I bet someone DOES know what MAX stands for! If we wait around they'll probably be along in a minute to tell you."
Gary, Chester, GB

Ask a question and someone will find the answer or in this case a possible answer.

Max is not an acronym it is just short for Maximillian.

Just noticed that someone else posted same answer. Gary pay attention!

Diefenbaker, Edinburgh, Scotland

Kryten? Daleks? Major Kusanagi? Dot Matrix? Roy Batty? K9?

Alan Watkins-Groves, Lincoln, UK

Where is Robocop and the vilan in the movie?

Ollympo, Leiria, Portugal

How could you miss Cherry 2000?

Alan Watkins-Groves, Lincoln, UK

Can anyone out there rememberr a kids film where a boy was inside a giant robot controlling it .Can't remember much else except it wasn't animation but i do seem to remember a scene in a junkyard was the finale(possibly i'm mixing 2 films up in my fading memory)Was hoping it might appear on this list but any help greatly appreciated.

joe salama, london, uk

Ron (also from Austin! Hey!) - You're riht, but I think this thing is a bit more light-hearted than the culture-droids you're looking for: It's not a 'news' item, it's a fun feature - and it was fun. Nice stuff Mister !

Dewayne, Austin, TX

No robot was funnier than Hymie in Get Smart....except Woody Allen's pretend robot in Sleeper.

Stephen, Canberra , Australia

Jeff (Milton) The Master Chief is at best a cyborg, more likely a man in a suit, and therefore doesn't count. Although they've missed a couple of my favourites they're pretty clear that cyborgs don't count

Linds, Farringdon, UK

Interesting list, and thanks for the links. However, I believe your criteria are wrong if you're looking for the best movie robots. I don't see where plausibility and comedy value have much to do with the merits of a robot, and the coolness factor is hard to define. And why should a more dangerous robot be any better than a less dangerous one? The one criterion that's missing and that would force you to rearrange your list radically is the robot's impact on culture and the media. IMHO, the robots that should be heading this list are Maria from Metropolis, Robbie from Forbidden Planet, Hal 9000 from 2001, Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still, C3PO and R2D2 from Star Wars - and one that didn't even make your list - Roy Batty, the cyborg played by Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner. Opinions will vary.

Ron, Austin, TX

a list compiled by someone who hasn't got a clue, my what surprise.

svaran, wellington, new zealand

I'm sorry but Gort from Day the earth stood still HAS to be number one on the list--the special effects were great for its time and still hold up O-K today...Plus Gort could destroy all of the above robots single-handedly!

Dave Andrakin, Millbrae, CA

Two others beat me to it but AMEE from Red Planet rules;Screamers are nasty too. For comedy,liked the pimp robot in Ice Pirates.

rox, cambridge, cambs

Good list, but one noteworthy example of a movie robot is missing. Sherman, from the movie Millennium, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd. His trudging, patient benevolence and selflessness made him an ideal servant to mankind, and he showed astonishing leaps of intuition that made him no less believable.

Plausibility:6
Coolness:11
Dangerousness:0
Comedy Value:4

Mike Burns, Clovis, USA/ New Mexico

Where's JohnnyCab from Total recall?

Sudhir, new delhi, india

Yeah, this list misses Bender - all of you nitpickers should lighten up though. It's a funny list with loads of great little details and stuff. Can we have maybe best movie car chases next?

Brad, College Park, Maryland

Where's Goddard from the Jimmy Neutron series? Or Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo?

Tony, Springfield,

good but where's the master chief on this list?

jeff, milton,

Why didn't anyone mention Sharky's machine?

....Oh yeah...

But I do agree Bender needs to be on here.
Plausibility: 5
Coolness: 10
Dangerousness: 10
Comedy: 10

Scott, fort worth, tx

The list includes most of the many important robot characters in movie history, but has the importance of them all wrong. The Robot Maria (aka "Machine Man") from Metropolis (1927) is the model for all of those that followed. Many other humanoid robots from C3P0 to the Terminator machines are clearly based on Fritz Lang's creation. Eighty years on, she is still a marvel to look at...and the most beautiful. Maria or "Machine Man", she will always be number one in my book of film robots.

Gregory Garduno, Aurora, CO

"Coolness: 11"

hahahah

Barry, Bradford, UK

THANK YOU! THANK YOU FOR PAYING RESPECTS TO THE OLD MOVIE ROBOTS! How often do you see someone reference a movie as old as Metropolis when they are talking about movies? I think, however, that Maria (Or Futura, which ever one you want) should have been much higher. Did you ever hear about how long the makeup took and how complex everything was? Robby the Robot, and Gort were great additions too. Peace my man.

Joel, TCU Campus, USA

Uhh...how's about Gigantor (Tetsujin-28)? And honorable mention to Astro-Boy and Robot B-9 (Lost In Space). Yeah, they were TV robots, but were more inflential than most of the 'bots on this list.

Big Al, Hoboken, NJ

What about Cherry 2000? There aren't enough gynoids on the list.

The list also could have included at least one of the androids from the Dragon Ball Z TV show or movies. I would suggest Android 16, 18, and Cell.

Last but not least, let's not forget our favorite android that has appeared in its very own documentary --- Al Gore.

Carlos, Chicago, Illinois

I can't believe no one mentioned Six from Tripping the Rift. So sad.

Mark, Houston,

Trust the Americans to spell Kryten incorrectly from Red Dwarf! Beloved indeed...

If we're talking dangerous and cool then surely Omicron from Transformers The Movie (animated version) should be included - it was a robot that transformed into a planet and ate other planets!!

If we're also allowing certain TV shows as entries then I second that Bender should be included: an alcoholic, fire belching robot that steals from everyone and smokes cigars... Now that is cool and very high on the old comedy value scale

Alex Maund, Perth, Australia

What? No Robert? Fireball XL5.

Tim Lewis, Wainscott, NY

Too bad they never made a movie of Computer One by Warwick Collins. Plausibility 10 Coolness 2 Dangerous Off the scale, makes HAL look like an amateur.

michael, Louisville, KY U.S. of A.

Brilliant

paddy, birmingham, england

Transformers gets a 0 for comedic value? If it had no comedic value then it was a worthless movie, and oh, it gets a 0 plausibility as if any on the list should past 1. Actually there's very little Si-Fi beyond their extraterrestrial origin, just a whole lot of super extrapolation - that's what makes it so cool (I see your 10 agrees with that) and the ironny is what makes it so set up for comedy, which is about 20% of the movie. What movie were you watching? Its not Adam Sandler, but it is comic book. Comic?

Earl Cylkowski, Alpharetta, GA

ugh. the replicants were cool but not robots. the whole point is that they are difficult to differentiate from humans, they're genetically engineered humans, NOT robots.

Daleks are cyborgs, not robots.

Androids ARE robots, any dictionary will show you this.
"An android is a robot designed to resemble a human, usually both in appearance and behavior." ie IT'S A ROBOT

The Stepford Wives reference is from the original movie

joe, brisbane,

I miss the robot from 'Mars attacks', played by Lisa Marie
and what about the Buffy bot....

megs, amsterdam, neth

Johnny 5 (Short Circuit)

According to you:
Plausibility:10 agree
Coolness:0 Seriously? Your cool-o-meter needs calibrating
Dangerousness:1 Did you not see the way he starts out?
Comedy Value:8 agree

According to me:
Plausibility:10 Coolness:5 Dangerousness:5 Comedy Value:8

Johnny 5 has to be in the top 10!!!

Sergio, Turin, Italy

This list is such a mashup of bits and pieces Idon't know where to start. So many other people have pointed out that HAL is a computer/AI not a robot so I wont repeat that. Data from Star Trek TNG is an Android, not a robot and yes, there is a difference.
As for other comments made - Darth Vader is not a robot - why should he be on the list?? And the ignorance of David from Australia mentioning the Borg - they ARE NOT ROBOTS, that is why they are not on the list. Nothing makes me madder than people commenting on something they obviously know nothing about.

Tessa, Perth, Australia

Bender Bending Rodriguez. Should at least be top ten.

joe perry, London,

Very very clever. You make a list that every internet nerd will drool over and include just enough deliberate controversy and 'mistakes' to make sure they come back and argue about it and look at your quite annoying advertising again and again.

Having said that I got a lot of fun out of this list. Movie spaceships next?

Barry, Bradford, UK

Where are the Blade Runner replicants?

James, Taipei,

The Iron Giant needs to be on this list.

Jacob Rome, Manhattan Beach, CA

Okay, lemme see if I got this straight.

V-Ger starts off as an interplanetary space probe with a brain the size of an average wristwatch. It keeps on going, out of the solar system, a bzillion miles into space where it crash lands on a large, uninhabited planet with an earthlike atmosphere, somehow managing to not burn up in the aforementioned atmosphere or bust into a zillion pieces when it hits the ground.

It then proceeds to 'grow', perhaps by manufacturing crude transistors out of the silica-rich soil. It grows in power and size until it threatens the earth, can take over the soul of a Deltan aboard a Federated starship and dematerialize aforementioned Deltan (plus Terrestrial) into the great nothingness that lies beyond.

This got a Plausibility of '10'.

Not to complain, though. The rest of it was great. Remembering the droids in 'Silent Running' was very cool.

Dr. Mercury, Florida Keys, Florida

21: Claire Wellington (The Stepford Wives)???

Claire WASN'T a robot, Her HUSBAND was... watch the movie folks

Alphapup, Los Angeles,

To everyone moaning about Kitt being in there, i quote "and mixed a few select robots who, while immensely popular, have not as yet appeared in a feature-length production". And who can't admit that HAL 9000 is one of the scariest forms of AI to grace the screen? You can't melt HAL in a vat of liquid metal if you're living in him! And i think the replicants in Bladerunner qualify as #1 in a different list, possibly the top 50 genetic creations, or something similar.

IMHO the Bill and Ted robots were neither very funny, cool or dangerous. Yul Brynner in Westworld was 100 leagues cooler and far more dangerous.

Great list though Michael ! Could be turned into a 3 hour special for the telly, maybe? It'd be a nice trip down memory lane :-)

Justin, Alford, UK

The Daleks and the Cybermen are both cyborgs not robots. The Cybermen are humanoids in mechanical suits and the Daleks are genetically engineered montrosities in.. mechanical suits.

Lord Mr Guy, Boston, MA

I'd think the Terminator robots have a much higher plausibility than the ABC Warriors!!!

2000ad, montreal,

What about all of the cool robots in the original Star Trek? The V'ger probe cited in the list is a ripoff of an idea in the original Trek. Roger Korby's little harem of hot androids, with the hot Sherry Jackson playing Andrea - she killed the man she thought was Kirk (it was his android double, of course) made her a ten on dangerousness and coolness.

And if you're going to include HAL9000, then why not Richard Daystrom's "Utimate Computer" M-5? Or the computers that ran entire societies in TOS (at least three episodes come to mind).

Ronbo, San Francisco, California U.S.A.

All these losers and you left out the robot in "Iron Giant"?

robert, dallas, USA

Marvin is more dangerous than Data? Whatever!

William, San Francisco, CA

Red Planet, best robot ever and not a mention in this list ?

cyber, Glasgow, Scotland

What about Dr Who's robotic dog K9 ?? A terrible oversight to omit him/it !!

Joy Rider, Oakland, CA

Are you kidding me!? Johnny Five at 35!? Coolness 0!? Did you see the end of those movies? This is why british cinema will never be as great as American. You people just don't understand high art.

Pilgrim, San Francisco,

All this about robots and no mention of Isaac Asimov.
Please, can someone quote his three laws..

Paul, Stockholm,

Dr. Who, Daleks

stevew, Salt Lake City, USA/UT

If you're going to include HAL9000 then you should at least include Joshua from WarGames!

catmean, Fort Worth, TX

Tom Servo! Crow T. Robot!
Funniest! Robots! Ever!
Didn't MST3K make it across the pond?

Daren, Atlanta, GA,

All this about robots and no mention of Isaac Asimov.
Please, can someone quote his three laws..

Paul, Stockholm,

You forgot the police officers in THX-1138 (George Lucas, 1971).

RR, San Francisco, CA USA

Since they included HAL 9000 they should have also included Colossus and Guardian from "Colossus: The Forbin Project"-after all, a computer with control of the world's nuclear arsenals (and using them) seems pretty menacing to me.

Randy H, Chicago, IL

what complete rubbish. C3PO and R2D2 are the most well known Robots. Completely skewed results. These two should be followed by Data and possibly Crighton.

The Terminator loses all credibility as the 'Governator' (Schwarzenegger) is now a poster boy for NeoCons.

Roger, epping,

This types lists are always full of flaws, but this one..
Just a few examples:

Unforgivable sins:
1. Hector from Saturn 3
2. Bomb 20 from John Carpenter's Dark Star
3. Karr from Knight Rider (way much cooler than kitt)
5. Vincent & Bob from Disney's Black Hole

Should have made to the list:
6. Andy the Android from Buck Henry's Quark
7. Vanessa, the fembot from Austin Powers

And some less known:
8. The Chopping Mall Robots
9. Evolver, Scifi Channel, 1995

Ray, Coimbra, Portugal

I'm sorry but #10 should be the Killbots from "Chopping Mall". The Sentinals from "X-Men 3"???? That movie is an optical blight from start to finish- that has NOTHING to do with cool robots! Who put this list together??? Also- What about Dekkard, Roy, Pris and every other replicant from "Blade Runner"? Seriously!! The fact that you cite "The Stepford Wives" in this list is even more criminal than "X-Men 3". You forgot "Heartbeeps", You forgot "Deadly Friend"- which has one of the greatest homicidal robot scenes ever-- Where Kristy Swanson-bot explodes Mama's (from "Throw Mama from the Train") head with a basketball. This list needs a serious revision ASAP!!!!

Henry Krinkle, los Angeles, USA/Ca

"Robot" spiders in lost in space movie were aliens last I heard. Sillicon based life is not the same as robot.

Daemon, someplace,

I can't believe Fembots from Austin Powers are ranked higher than Data from Star Trek. Boo! Boo, I say!

Patrick, Los Angeles, CA

It's difficult to understand why Robby, Gort, and for that matter, C-3PO, don't appear higher in the list. The fact that Robby is just about everyone's favorite robot doesn't make him "the best" -- but, arguably, he is. Gort's costume isn't "seamless" -- there were two costumes, one with the seam in front, the other in back. And given that robots that can walk upright, in much the way a human does, have been developed, the 0 rating for the plausibility of the Star Wars battle droids makes little sense.

William Sommerwerck, Renton, WA

Your list would be cool except that you forgot Bender, the coolest robot ever.

Katie, Madison, Wisconsin

Creighton! My beloved Creighton from Red Dwarf!

NIKKI, Brooklyn,

What the hell? Where is Chalmers from "Spacehunter - Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"? Best. Android. Ever.

Also the hottest.

Parkingtigers, HK,

C-3PO.
Not C3-PO.

That is all.

tehdiplomat, New York,

Kitt has a plausibility of 10? c'mon!

jack, Philadelphia, USA

I'm a little unnerved that they consider the HAL9000 a robot when instead it is a computer.

At least they didn't toss any replicants from Blade Runner in. Ridley Scott was very adamant about making sure they were never considered androids or robots.

Nicole, Pullman, Washington

I agree with another poster on this board.
The list mentions top 50 movie robots, but it does have a handful of television shows included. Since that is the case, this list really needs K-9 from Doctor Who.

I am glad that Metropolis is included.

Will , Nashville, Tennessee

What about the robots in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (1996)? Aren't they funny?

h-man, Bremen, Germany

HAL9000 was not a robot, but a shipboard AI.

Ian Melvin, Fleetwood, Lancashire

To everyone protesting the lack of Replicants,

According to the opening crawl of Blade Runner they were the product of "genetic engineers" as well as "advanced robot evolution", it's the biological element that makes them ineligible for any list of Robots

Greg, Barking, England

BENDER from futurama is the only Robot

GATTO, Rio, Brazil

And where, pray, is the great Max Headroom??? Hmm???

Allan, Cowling, England

there's another one: AMEE in the movie RED PLANET. Pretty dangerous robot.

h-man, Bremen, Germany

Perhaps they don't consider "replicants" to be "robots".

Willow, Austin,

Sorry but where are the Borg??? They are one mean and very nasty piece of work witha cool factor of 9.5 (10 if you include 7of9)

david , Sydney, Australia

Surprised nobody's pointed out that the spiders in Lost in Space (1998) were an alien life form, not robots.

As for the list, it seems pretty poorly researched & thought-out to me. Many of the 'Plausibility' figures iappear to be picked at random. The most egregious example is the 3 for Runaway's robot spiders. All the robots in Runaway were functioning mechanical devices - not much CGI back in 1984! They may look a bit clunky to modern eyes but they actually worked - what makes them implausible?

JRM, London,

Where is Metal Mickey?I need another Atomic Thunderbuster!

Alan Wilson, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

'scuse me, but what about the robot in The Iron Giant ? - a fantastic movie and surely Vin Diesels best role to date !

Steve M, Bournemouth, Dorset

C3P0 shoulda been higher. (Seriously, a coolness rank of 3? What?)

Hxelen, New Jersey, USA

where is bender from futurama, if twigi can be on the list with a 10 in comedy why can't a cartoon robot

Turner, Las Cruces, New Mexico

the daleks? why? the daleks aren't robots.
what you see of the dalek is the shell, an amoury. inside is a life form.

axel, mainz,

Does Rick Deckard not deserve a mention or do replicants not count.

Ed, York,

Haven't you seen Blade Runner?

Roy, Western Metropolis,

Uh, was Knight Rider a movie? If series are included, why no Daleks, British newspaper people? Anyway, there was a Doctor Who movie with the Daleks, and Peter Cushing.

Tracey, Fairfax, VA

Lost all credibility when Prime was ranked 30th (behind a robot from Alien) and R2-D2 didn't make the top 10.

J. Curayat, London, UK

What about the Daleks????

Rebecca , Skelmersdale, UK

If you going to include TV robots in the form of a talking car (which had already been done ) how could you possibly over look "The Robot" from the original Lost in space series?

Jeff Martin, McKinney, Texas

You forgot Sylvester Stallone

David, Dunedin, NZ

No wait a sec, HAL is NOT a robot, HAL is a computer. He should have been disqualified! But then that film simply must be referenced!

dan, norwich,

My favorite robot is Edward played by Johnny Depp in
" Edward Scissorhands " , elegant , beautiful ...

kelan, Tainan,

What a joke this is. There is nothing cooler than any of the transformers. The terminator machines come close but don't quite cut it.

Presh, Liverpool, UK

I can't believe you didn't include Val and Acqua from Heartbeeps. They show the romantic side of robots

Matthew, Murrieta, USA

what about Robocop or Metal Mickey

H K Y, Hong Kong,

Although Blade Runner is one of my all time fav movies, can the Replicants technically be called Robots seeing as although manufactured they were flesh and blood, unlike say Bishop who was all Milk and tubes, but I digress. What about the Cyber men or the Daleks? They have been trying to take over the Universe for thousands of years, destroyed untold civilisations and don't even register on this list. They'd eat the likes of KITT for breakfast - if they could eat.

Ady, Sydney, Australia

Have I missed one or did you forget about Blade Runner?

Ben Monk, Manchester, UK

To everone commenting on your favourite 'missed' robot, check the list of disqualified robots before first: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2133736.ece

For example:
"The Replicants from Blade Runner : The film is notoriously unclear on the underlying technology of the Replicants: The complex Voight-Kampff testing implies a creature that is structurally indistinguishable from a human although the enhanced strength, invulnerability to scalding water and trademarks on the cells all point to a very different physiology."

Also, I think the ranking works. For example, Optimus Prime got a deserved 10 out of 10 for both coolness and dangerousness, but he can't really be described as humourous or plausible.. Therefore, while I personally rate him as my favourite robot on coolness alone, his place in the list is deserved.

Chris, London, UK

What? No Tom Servo?

Steven, Charlotte, NC USA

I know it's a list of Movie robots, but if it wasn't I think Bender from Futurama would beat them all!

Neil Burton, Tewkesbury, GB

Gundam? possibly one of the most sucessfull robot series in japan

Tom, leeds,

no, R2-D2 is on there

Lee, Brighton,

Hyme, from Get Smart. Not from the movies, but the funniest.

Plausibility: 8 Coolness: 10 Dangerousness: 1 Comedy Value: 10

Francisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

HAL9000? Surely HAL was a computer.

CJ, Halifax, W. Yorks

You forgot the MCP from Tron!

Dan, Heresville, MI

Everyone seems to have forgotten R2D2! Bless the little droid

Louisa, Aylesbury,

Gott in Himmel, it's a fun of fun people.

That aside...where's Bender?

Indy, Leeds, UK

Dude....

Darth Vadar.... Datth Vadar....

sigh

liam, london, uk

Hahaha, Gigolo Joe from A.I. had a danger of 5? What could he do - walk around unlicensed?

C.E., Managua,

You somehow omitted the Mechanical Rabbit from Bugs Bunny, where the evil doers (whoever they were) send in a wind up mechanical rabbit and she kisses Bugs. Bugs says "So, she mechanical." and walks out stiff legged like she does (ostensibly because there weren't any knee joints, but in Bugs case it was because of impending lust).

Scott Phillips, Reno, Nevada

Exactly which Cylons are at #32? The "By your command" Cylons are the 1978 models. The link went to the 2003 models.

The 1978 models are much cooler and should have gotten a few points for comedy value as they did get some of the funniest lines in the series, especially Lucifer.

Eugenia, Anchorage, Alaska

...the Daleks ?

awake, Paris,

Where are the Rapist Robots from Flesh Gordon - a veritable classic!
Replicators from Stargate SG-1, not to mention the Robot SG-1 team.
What about K-9?
Would the talking bomb from Dark Star be a robot?

DK, Shanghai, China

Rutger Hauer's role in Omega Doom is also one I missed seeing here. I enjoyed the film tremendously. So much so I actually began a comic strip where a character creates a bot from random PC parts and game consoles that he dubs AntiOmegaDoom (AOD). AOD isn't suffering fried evil circuits but is more of an assassin bot targeting random stupidity, often initiating Boondock Saints mode. I was surprised not to see Cherry 2000 listed either. I can forgive that exclusion perhaps since real life is getting far too much like a B movie.

DragonBomber, Smallsbury, NC, USA

The "By your command" Cylons (the 1978 version) are listed (I think) as #32 and then it was linked to the 2003 version.

The 2003 Cylons don't say "By your command." They're boring anyway.

The 1978 Cylons ought to get a few points for humour, especially if you include the IL series (Lucifer).

Eugenia, Anchorage, AK

...and the cybermen?

Damion Lambert, Guildford, England

I am stunned that the Replicants in Blade Runner do not make the list.
Batty scores about 50 in coolness alone!
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. "

David Green, London,

Good Grief - You omitted "Teddy" from Kubric's A.I. as well as David, the murderously obsessed child android in the leading role.

Blade runner -
I totally agree about Roy Batty "I've seen things you people would not believe" but what about the rather sexy Rachel or "Ever had an itch you can't scratch?" Leon.

As Cool, Dangerous and Comedy value droids go, the training droid in Tomb raider wasn't bad either.

The Citroen car ads should be in there somewhere and what about the Cabury's Smash metal droids??

Tom, North York's, Uk

Random guess: could Max be referring to the Max Planck institute, which does research into stuff like black holes?

starling, Lancaster,

Wait - stupid spiders on Lost in Space ranked higher than Robbie the robot ?!? At least Robbie had a LINE in the show!

Gort ranked lower than the things in Bill & Ted because they were FUNNY?!?

"We then weighted the results according to an arbitrary scale..." Yeah, weighted by what we liked so the numbers were adjusted to fit that. Plllttthhhhh!!!

John Ewan, Morrisville, NC

Sid 6.7 was played by Russell Crowe, who brought gleeful malevolence and a sardonic humor to the role. I'd add a 4 to the comedic value, but considering that Sid was created and hatched from a computer, I'd have to take 4 away from plausibility, to keep the final score the same.

Hatch, Palm Beach , Florida, USA

RudyV, the battle droids TALK to one another. In English. Do you have any idea how stupid that is?

Eric, Birmingham, AL

HAL 9000 rocks big time! It deserves to be included on the list!

Fred J., San Jose, Costa Rica

The adroid chick in Blade Runner!!!!!

Mike, London, England

Ari is right. No Bladerunner robot? One of the best sci-fi movies ever, and in large part due to the androids.

Tracey, Fairfax, VA

I love HAL9000 but isn't that a computer? And not all of these are from movies. KITT?!?!

Graeme Robertson, Dunfermline, UK

Each letter in HAL is one letter before IBM in the alphabet. It's that symbolism in the greatest of all sci-fi movies that stirs the imagination more than do the other robots on the list.

Johnny Kerr, Raleigh, NC

where were the Daleks?

Trim, London,

Oh dear, you're probably going to ruffle a few feathers with this list. It is typical of the vogue to create a countdown list of a whatever comes readily to hand from a quick trawl through the internet, YouTube in this particular case. The result being a mishmash of the best and worst of popular culture where the best usually loses out, usually as a result of cultural revisionism.
For a start HAL9000 is not a robot but a shipboard computer.
Whatever your ranking system how you could possibly justify C3PO's low place in this field? Along with R2D2 he is surely one of the most iconic and recognisable robots on film and this alone should have guaranteed a place in the top ten, if not joint first.
Russell Crowe as a robot? Dangerous yes, memorable no.
Maybe my problem with the list is one of age and therefore perception. Up to the beginning of the 80's most of the concepts for robots on film seem fresh and innovative, whilst everything after that seems ever so slightly derviative.

Rob S, Sheffield,

Can't believe there's no mention of any of the androids in Bladerunner. And I agree that the Transformers should all be grouped as one, not because I disliked the film but because they were all very col in their own way.

Jane, Gandia, Spain

I second the plausibility metric - the T-X is a 3, but the T-1000 is a 2? It's as likely we would build a T-X as we would a C3-PO? Someone has been at the glue.

Squid, Coventry,

Max is short for Maximillian, the robot is named not acronym'd.

Neil Walton, Bicester, UK

Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner. How could this be missed?

Plausibility: 5
Coolness: 11
Dangerousness: 12
Comedy: 5

Andrew, Los Angeles, USA

Johnny 5 - Dangerousness 1? Didn't it blow up a tank in one shot?

Matthew, London, London

The Proteus IV from the 70's cult film Demon Seed deserves to be on this list. Arguably more a super computer than a robot, but unlike Hal from 2001, Proteus is both a computer and a house controlling robot, with an evil eye for the ladies.

Justin Silver, London, GB

Surely the HAL9000 can't possibly be included in this list since HAL is simply a stationary computer.

rick, Manchester, UK

Well said Ari!

Dizz, Bognor Regis, England

What! No mention of the the most human of all androids Roy Batty in Bladerunner. Arguably one of the best films of all time and surely a robot that at the end of the film is more human then human!

Ari, London,

Optimus Prime ranked 30th? Other robots were ranked as a collective, and I don't think you can say Transformers as a whole have a 0 capacity for humor. Bumblebee "lubricating" on John Turturro's Sector 7 officer? C'mon... certainly K.I.T.T., simply a talking car, doesn't deserve to be 3rd. He doesn't even transform into anything!

Jack, Houston, TX

I stopped reading when I saw that the T-1000 had a plausibility of 2 but the Star Wars battle droids had a score of 0. What do you think combat is going to be like 50 years from now? It certainly won't be like Starship Troopers, that's for sure--it'll all be done be droids, baby, 'cause nobody'll cry when a droid comes home in a bodybag.

RudyV, Brighton,

i am so glad that freeze bot made it on the list, though i dont think he was very dangerous as they simply ripped off their arms when he started talking about those sea greens and plankton.

ross, philadelphia,

I bet someone DOES know what MAX stands for! If we wait around they'll probably be along in a minute to tell you

Gary, Chester, GB