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Wired lists the The 50 Best Robots Ever, both fictional and real.

An interesting list, to be sure. The Iron giant got robbed, though. And no robots from I, Robot? No R. Daneel Olivaw? Bah!

Anyway, the winners are summarized here...

1. Stanley
2. Astroboy
3. Spirit and Opportunity
4. Robby the Robot
5. Shakey
6. Qrio
7. The Mechanical Knight
8. Da Vinci Surgical System
9. Dante II
10. The Stanford Cart
11. Speedy
12. T-52 Enryu
13. Edinburgh Modular Arm System
14. Genghis
15. Wabot and Wabot 2
16. Robart III
17. Albert Hubo
18. Honda's P2
19. R2-D2
20. Mindstorms
21. Personal Satellite Assistant
22. Rossums' Universal Robots
23. Gort
24. Elsie and elmer
25. Partner Ballroom Dancing Robots
26. False Maria
27. MQ-1 Predator
28. The Terminator
29. Vaucanson's Duck
30. The Tin Woodman
31. GM Unimate
32. Abe
33. The Turk
34. Optimus Prime
35. The Iron Giant
36. Packbots
37. RB5X
38. Sony Aibo
39. S-Bots
40. Elektro and Sparko
41. Mobots
42. Lilliput Toy Robot
43. Attack Bots from Runaway
44. Slugbot
45. Nintendo R.O.B.
46. Roomba Discovery
47. Hal 9000
48. Kitt
49. Leonardo
50. Robonaut

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