Did or do you like robots?

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Bender (asleep): Kill all humans.

I loved robots as a kid. Love them now, too. My big dream before I die is to make a giant pilotable mecha. But even as a small child, of like 5, I liked the robot from lost in space, I had robot toys, etc, I just positively loved robots.

But the biggest thing came in like, 6th grade or so. GUNDAM! That was a big...hobby (not gonna say obsession, though everyone else says it was, but they're just haters) I currently have like 30+ Gundam kits, I just positively LOVE Gundam. And Patlabor. Maybe Patlabor more than Gundam. Or maybe not. I don't know. Mecha is still like my favorite genre of racing animes. As I got older, I liked cars, as cars sorta get piloted, and they're easily attainable and modifiable. I like racing animes like Initial D and Wangan Midnight. Matter of fact, that's what got me into cars in the first place. My dad showing me NASCAR as a kid and getting me toy cars didn't do too much, but Initial D turned me on the downward spiral that is my life. But, I like cars, as it's like the closest machine I can get to "piloting" in real life.

But yeah, before I start rambling forever about Gundam and how cool it is, yes, as...whatever I am, I like robots. First starting with traditional nonpiloted robots evolving to piloted robots.


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Patlabor is so cool, I love the lyrics to this song too. Man, Patlabor, such a great show. Everyone please stop everything you're doing right now and watch Patlabor.

Yeah, I mean, I don't dislike cyborg or android kinda things, as a kid I named one of my cats "Data" from Star Trek, but yeah, definitely like the whole mecha idea better. Gundam Wing is kinda lame, though, should have watched a UC Gundam show like Gundam 0083 or 08th MS Team. Man I love Gundam. If I lived in Japan, and I was a successful businessman, I'd have all my Gundam models on my desk and I'd be super cool.

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BTW, that big picture of the RX-78 Gundam. Real statue in Japan. Kickass.

I do like them, now.
But I was deathly afraid of them as a kid... and mostly any other machinery for that matter. I'm still not comfortable around some things. And "robotic puppets", like the ones they have at Disney World, creep me out to high heavens.

My first fascination with a robot was probably the one in the old Lost in Space television show. Then, I remember getting an erector set for Christmas one year, and one of the things you could build was a robot. That was my favorite thing to build in that set. And, I used to try to build a robot out of tinker toys. As a child I found robots quite magical and mysterious. In the 1970s I loved to watch the comedy team of Shields and Yarnell do their robot like routines.

No, I always found them creepy. The exception would be Gir from Invader Zim. I don't think Bunnie Rabot from Sonic SatAM counts becuase she is half rabbit.

I have never liked or admired robots. I find them rather creepy.

I like computers. A robot is just a computer carrying out a program, after all; the robot itself--unless you're into mechanical engineering--is incidental to the job. It's the programming that's important.

And yeah, I do like programming. I'll never be a professional programmer, however much my programming profs try to push me into it; but I've spent many a happy afternoon (or, y'know, midnight) picking through chunks of code.

The lovely thing about a computer: It does exactly, exactly what you tell it to do. Which means, if it messes up (barring hardware issues), it's because you didn't phrase your instructions correctly. You don't have to worry that it won't understand; you don't have to worry that it won't listen. You just have to think about what you are saying and how you are saying it, and you can trust that the computer will do exactly as it's told. I like that. Pure logic. No fuzziness.

Of course, if I want a relationship with an actual person, I've got to go to human beings (or animals, for that matter). The lack of fuzziness in a computer program is also what makes them intrinsically non-sentient, unable to make their own choices or think about their own existence. I think, if we ever create a sentient computer program, we'd need to have a fundamentally different kind of computer to run it on.

'Lost in space' had a cute robot that was the lead actor.....

Spock was very very very popular

Edward Scissorhands was a massive hit

people love robots