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"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.
The term "droid", popularized by George Lucas in the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of "android", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.
Droids R2-D2 (left) and C-3PO (right), first featured in Star Wars. In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. The term is a clipped form of "android", [1] a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. [2]
Tau, the artificial intelligence in science fiction thriller Tau (2018) Millennium Falcon Navigation Computer (L3-37), The onboard navigation computer of the Millennium Falcon, shown in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) to be boosted by the memory module of Lando Calrissian's droid L3-37, to allow the crew to perform the Kessel Run in around 12 ...
[13] Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times praised the film for avoiding "the usual heavy hokum associated with the [sci-fi] genre" and called it "a solid and well-disciplined first film. The spaceries really are impressive and the movie is an ingenious family entertainment which offers something to think about."
This is a list of films that have appeared on the Syfy (formerly Sci Fi) basic cable television channel.Despite the title of this article, only some are original films produced for the channel, while others are direct-to-video releases picked up for broadcast by Syfy.
The series also featured robot or computerised versions of TV hosts in the episode Bad Wolf (2005), namely Davina McCall as the voice of the Davinadroid, Anne Robinson as the voice of the Anne Droid, Trinny Woodall as the voice of Trine-e and Susannah Constantine as the voice of Zu-Zana. Elly from Ultraman Max (2005)
Droids and Ewoks were later shown in reruns on Sci-Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest in 1996, although somewhat edited for time. [citation needed] In the UK this series, along with Ewoks, was released on VHS as part of a promotion with Dairylea Cheese. Families could send in empty packages of the Cheese and in return get one of 6 VHS tapes.