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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.