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5 unusual facts about I, Robot


A Cinderella Story

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $13,623,350 in 2,625 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #4 at the box office, behind I, Robot, Spider-Man 2 and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, was the best debut for an Teen film that week.

Fiona Hogan

While teaching, Fiona also guest starred on numerous television series and appeared in many studio films including, Connie and Carla, A Guy Thing, See Spot Run, an infamous scene in the cult film Freddie Got Fingered, and had a supporting lead in I, Robot alongside Will Smith.

I, Roommate

The episode title is a spoof on the short story collection I, Robot by Isaac Asimov and the earlier short story of the same title by Eando Binder, although the plot of the episode has little to do with the original stories.

John Rodd

Films worked on while on staff as Orchestral Scoring Recordist at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox include I, Robot, The Last Samurai, Spider-Man 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix (trilogy), Cast Away, X-2, Jurassic Park III, The Bourne Identity, Road to Perdition and The Sixth Sense.

The Watermelon

Beach scenes were shot in Malibu, on the property of Tony Romano, executive producer of Catch Me If You Can and I, Robot.


13274 Roygross

He is currently studying mechanical engineering at Drexel University and is working on the humanoid robot HUBO.

A Gift from Earth

As the story began with a robot ramship in flight, it ends with another ramship headed from Earth to the human colony known as 'We Made It' (in the Procyon system) with the same discovery.

ABC Warriors

The first members of the Shadow Warriors to be revealed are Bootleg, a robotic bounty hunter; Dog-Tag, a charming yet ruthless 'pirate' of the trans-Martian highways; The Rev, a minister in the sinister robot religion of the Church of Judas, which Blackblood now follows; and Deus Ex Machina, an artificial intelligence – long thought mythical – capable of taking control of other machines and turning them to its will.

Adam Nimoy

His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, The Practice, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Sliders, Gilmore Girls, and The Outer Limits where he directed his father in the episode "I Robot".

Adelbrecht

Adelbrecht was a speaking, interactive robot in the form of a ball, designed by Martin Spanjaard (born 1952 in Haarlem, Netherlands).

Allin Kempthorne

Allin then became a solo comedy act Dweebie the Robot, having a few appearances on television including Blue Peter and Spanish Archer'.

ASTAR

In a 2000 remake of the segment, ASTAR is now an animated CG character, and the warning is altered slightly to "I am ASTAR, a robot from Planet Danger. I can put my arm back on. You can't. So play safe!"

Batman: Digital Justice

He is aided by a self-aware computer called the Batcomp, programmed by the late Bruce Wayne, and a robot called Alfred (after Wayne's also deceased butler Alfred Pennyworth), both residing in the Batcave under a now long-abandoned Wayne Manor.

Bonfire Snowboarding

Several of the company’s riders have pursued film projects including Leanne Pelosi with Misschief Films and Runway Films, and David Benedek with Robot Food, 91 Words for Snow, and The Gap Session (2).

Boston Dynamics

The original Cheetah robot runs on a high-speed treadmill in the laboratory where it is powered by an off-board hydraulic pump and uses a boom-like device to keep it running in the center of the treadmill.

Braiger

The robot has been featured in the video games Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden and Super Robot Wars GC; the latter of which appeared with the other robots of the J9 Trilogy.

Brigada Ligeira Estelar

The Forsaken giant robots, called "Quimeras" (chimera), are admittedly inspired by exotic mecha of Go Nagai in his various super robot series.

Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

In 2010 Draper Laboratory and MIT collaborated with two other partners as part of the Next Giant Leap team to win a grant towards achieving the Google Lunar X Prize send the first privately funded robot to the Moon.

Claude Sammut

He was the leader of the UNSW teams that won RoboCup four-legged robot competitions in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and the CAS team that won the award for best autonomous robot at RoboCup Rescue 2009.

Combat engineer

The ICEC operates advance engineering tools such as the IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer, IDF Puma armored CEV, armoured vehicle-launched bridges, armored engineering vehicles, EOD robots and electromagnetic mine-detectors.

Datamost

Music in those versions with the Advanced Music Processor were composed by Gary Gilbertson and included Cosmic Tunnels, Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory and Monster Smash.

Domestic robot

For example, the Wakamaru is a humanoid robot designed to provide company for elderly and less mobile people, made by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Fantastic Five

Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic - Formerly the Big Brain robot, Reed has recently returned from repairing a hole in the Negative Zone caused by Hyperstorm.

Felix Silla

He was also responsible for the physical performance of the robot Twiki in the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, a role for which the voice was supplied by Mel Blanc or Bob Elyea.

Gakutensoku

The robot was designed and manufactured by biologist Makoto Nishimura (1883-1956, father of actor Ko Nishimura).

Garnet Moon/Inori

Garnet Moon and Inori were the opening and ending theme for the PlayStation 2 robot action game, Another Century's Episode respectively.

Gerald Flood

Perhaps Flood's best known work, was in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who as the voice of the robot companion Kamelion in two serials — The King's Demons and Planet of Fire as well as a brief scene in the regeneration between Peter Davison's to Colin Baker's Doctor.

H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come

The colony leader, Senator Smedley (played by John Ireland), and science advisor Dr. John Caball (played by Barry Morse, formerly of Space: 1999), try to contact Nikki (Carol Lynley), the leader of Delta 3, but instead hear from Omus (Jack Palance), the "Robot Master," Caball's former apprentice, and the newly self-proclaimed Emperor of that world.

Halland-class destroyer

They were re-fitted in the 1960s and re-armed with Saab/Nord Aviation Robot 08 anti-shipping missiles (a missile derivative of the Nord Aviation CT20 drone).

Hourman

Another Hourman, an android from the 853rd century that was modeled on Rex Tyler's DNA, served with both the Justice League and the Justice Society for a time.

Hulk Robot

During the Acts of Vengeance event, Doctor Doom gave Jester II the Hulk Robot's parts and Jester rebuilt it (with the addition of humorous weapons in its arsenal) as a member of the Assembly of Evil.

Industrial robot

In 1969 Victor Scheinman at Stanford University invented the Stanford arm, an all-electric, 6-axis articulated robot designed to permit an arm solution.

John Acquaviva

Robot Needs Oil - Volta (Olivier Giacomotto remix) Definitive

Judge Goodman

The third crisis came when the robots of Mega-City One rebelled against their masters and the Robot War claimed millions of lives.

Keith Chegwin

Born in Bootle, Lancashire, Chegwin's early roles were in works of the Children's Film Foundation, appearing as Egghead Wentworth in The Troublesome Double (1967) and Egghead's Robot (1970).

Kid Amazo

As Amazo, merely an advanced robot, failed, the next approach would be to cross bio-mechanical material from Amazo's body with human ova and DNA, in order to obtain a cyborg being who would exhibit the best traits of both human and artificial life.

Multivac

Both Frank J. Tipler in his 1994 Omega Point Theory, and Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, have suggested that the human race will soon (by the mid 21st century) evolve into transhuman immortal humanoid robots which will work to eventually turn the entire universe into a gigantic supercomputer.

Ogie Alcasid

He also appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana (from 1991 to 1992), ABC's Tropang Trumpo (from 1994 to 1995), GMA Network's Bubble Gang (from 1995 to 2013), QTV's Ay, Robot! (from 2005 to 2007), and a sitcom Show Me Da Manny (from 2010 to 2011).

Polysorbate 20

The Clorox-made cleaning solution used by the iRobot Scooba floor-washing robot lists Tween 20 as one of its major ingredients on its MSDS.

Popular Science Predictions Exchange

Will a team of androids beat the human World Cup champions at a game of soccer by December 31, 2050?

Robert Jewell

Robert Jewell (1920 – 10 May 1998) was an Australian actor who mostly worked as a Dalek or other robot operator on Doctor Who in the late 1960s, also playing a cameo as Bing Crosby in the serial The Daleks' Master Plan.

Robot end effector

The end effector of an assembly line robot would typically be a welding head, or a paint spray gun.

Robot Honey

The track features heavy use of 8-bit-style synths and electric guitar, and is a love song written fron a robot's point of view.

Robot Learn Love

Robot Learn Love is the fourth full album released from singer song writer Kyle Andrews (Best known for his hit song You Make Me Smile).

Robot Torg

Torg was a robot character in the 1964 Christmas movie, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi

He and his collaborators have developed the first neurorobotic system in which a neural preparation in-vitro - the brainstem of a Lamprey - controls the behavior of a mobile-robot through a closed-loop interaction.

Sketchpad

Sketchpad (aka Robot Draftsman) was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988, and the Kyoto Prize in 2012.

Stel

Stel is a fictional American comic book superhero, an extraterrestrial robot from the planet Grenda and a member of the intergalactic police force known as the Green Lantern Corps for space sector 3009.

The Girl and the Robot

# The Girl and the Robot (Davide Rossi Suite for a Robotic Girl Re-Interpretation) – 4:29

Three Laws of Robotics

In a 2007 guest editorial in the journal Science on the topic of "Robot Ethics," SF author Robert J. Sawyer argues that since the military is a major source of funding for robotic research it is unlikely such laws would be built into their designs.

Tobor

Tobor ("robot" spelled backwards) is a fictional robotic character, featured in the 1949-1954 American science-fiction TV-series Captain Video and His Video Rangers, and in the 1954 movie Tobor the Great (described as one of the most important works of the science-fiction canon at the time).

Tony Clifton

However, the plan was sidelined after the box office failure of Kaufman's first major motion picture Heartbeeps, in which he co-starred with Bernadette Peters as a robot who falls in love.

VaMP

Most current robot cars as well as commercial vehicles with driver assistance use GPS so that they know precisely where they are.

Zip Zap

The player controls a robot sent to an unexplored planet called Hallucinor with the job of investigating it ahead of human colonisation.


see also

A.W. Hill

The book was optioned in manuscript by Paramount Pictures and assigned to cult director Alex Proyas, who developed two scripts before abandoning it to make "I,Robot.".

Adam Link

"I, Robot" and "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" were the basis of two episodes of The Outer Limits, one from the original series "I, Robot" in 1964, and one from the revival series "I, Robot" in 1995.

G.I. Robot

A newer model of G.I. Robot, designed by fictional character Lex Luthor for use by the United States military, was introduced in Batman Confidential #4, by Andy Diggle and Whilce Portacio.