Butler’s favorite robots
1927
“Metropolis”: The bosses send this curvy female robot to distract rebellious workers.
1951
“The Day the Earth Stood Still”: Seven-foot Gort has been programmed to keep us from fooling around with nukes.
1956
“Forbidden Planet”: Chatty Robby the Robot can instantly manufacture any desired object … like a bottle of 20-year-old scotch.
1968
“2001: A Space Odyssey”: Technically he’s a computer, but the red-eyed neurotic HAL 9000 uses a spaceship as his body.
1984
“The Terminator”: A metal skeleton and a computer brain encased in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s flesh.
1986
“Short Circuit”: “No. 5 is Alive!” Comedy about a little robot who develops human intellect and emotions.
1977
“Star Wars”: Squatty little R2-D2 and supercilious C-3PO rewrote movie ’droids.
1987-1994
“Star Trek: The Next Generation”: Yellow-eyed Data (Brent Spiner) is ultra-logical, super-strong and can’t figure out humans.
2004-08
“Battlestar Galactica”: No personality or emotions, but TV’s deadly Cylon Centurians are the coolest-looking robots ever.
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