# Are there a hotter pair of robots in the universe? I think not! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986 "2006-08-16T18:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/1 "2006-08-16T18:18:04Z")
[Oh sweet Lords of Kobol](http://media.tv.ign.com/media/821/821011/img_3584479.html). The [interview](http://tv.ign.com/articles/706/706316p1.html) is here if you care to read. I know, a pretty content-free post. I just had to share. Um…I’ll be in my rack… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/2 "2006-08-16T18:33:50Z")
I dunno, thoughts of Bo and Boo in a lesbian interface helped me through my adolescence. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/3 "2006-08-16T19:00:30Z")
Unfortunately, I got my looks from my dad. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/4 "2006-08-16T19:12:25Z")
You get some pretty hot robots/androids in anime, e.g., [Chii and Freya from Chobits](http://haven.joueb.com/images/chobits%20-%20freya%20&%20chii%2002.jpg) [Mahoro from Mahromatic](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b372/yokohama0080/Mahoro/Mahoro-006.jpg) (She’s also a very powerful battle android) and [Nuku Nuku from All-purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku](http://members.aol.com/NukuNuku54/Nuku/Nuku_Lg-03_a.jpg) (She has the brain of a cat, so perhaps doesn’t quite qualify as a robot) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/5 "2006-08-16T19:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] [Mahoro from Mahromatic](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b372/yokohama0080/Mahoro/Mahoro-006.jpg) (She’s also a very powerful battle android) [/quote] …who’s dressed like a French maid. _Hooo-kay…_ And I’m too lazy to hunt down image links, but I know a fair portion of the Transformers fanbase get all hot 'n bothered over the [elusively rare females.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_Transformers) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/6 "2006-08-16T19:59:21Z")
Thread is morphing interestingly… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/7 "2006-08-16T20:10:04Z")
Sorry, but I like my robots with their machinery more prominently displayed and accessible. [My Living Doll](http://www.tvacres.com/robots_female_rhoda.htm) > [@](#): > > Rhoda - Female robot (played by Julie Newmar) on the sci-fi sitcom MY LIVING DOLL/CBS/1964-65. Rhoda, the “ultimate in feminine composition,” (measurements 37-26-36) was created by Dr. Carl Miller (Henry Beckman) for a secret government project (No. AF709) that experimented with sending robots into space. Programmed to obey all commands, the Robot was given to Air Force psychologist, Dr. Bob McDonald (Robert Cummings) to monitor her psychological development while its creator was out of the country on assignment. Naming her Rhoda, Bob relocated the robot to his home and informed his neighbors she was Dr. Miller’s niece who was boarding with him until his return from overseas. McDonald’s computerized cutie-pie stood five-feet, ten-inches tall, was covered with a low-modulus polyethylene plastic that gave her that human look, and maintained a constant body temperature of 98.6 degrees. Concealed gadgetry included four small emergency control buttons on her back disguised as birth marks, and a power-off switch discretely located in her right elbow. Her eyes were not only used for vision but also converted incoming light to power her robotic system. When asked about her knowledge bank Rhoda replied “Ask me any questions you like. My memory bank has been filled with 50 million items of information which I can compute in less than one second.” To help Rhoda assimilate into human culture and to keep tabs on her progress, she was given a job as Dr. McDonald’s secretary (she typed 240 wpm). Complicating matters was Dr. McDonald’s neighbor, Dr. Peter Robinson (Jack Mullaney) who fell head over heels in love with Rhoda, unaware that never the “transistors” shall meet. I absolutely cannot believe there isn’t a better picture of Julie Newmar as Rhoda on the Internet. However, here’s one of her as [Stupefyin’ Jones](http://lipprint.tripod.com/pairs/pairs.html) in the Broadway version of L’il Abner as a hint. (Click for larger image.) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/8 "2006-08-16T20:12:25Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] [Oh sweet Lords of Kobol](http://media.tv.ign.com/media/821/821011/img_3584479.html). [/QUOTE] Those girls are pretty cute, too! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/9 "2006-08-16T20:27:05Z")
R. Dorothy Wainwright melts my heart without even trying. Imagine what she could accomplish if she did. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/10 "2006-08-16T20:32:46Z")
(waits patiently for first mention of Small Wonder Girl) -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/11 "2006-08-16T20:41:27Z")
Thanks for sharing. 🙂 Is it just me, or is Tricia Helfer a lot cuter in her “civilian” clothes/hair/makeup than when she’s all done up as Number 6? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/12 "2006-08-16T20:45:02Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] (waits patiently for first mention of Small Wonder Girl) [/QUOTE] (waits patiently for the person who does it to show up on _Dateline_) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/13 "2006-08-16T20:56:03Z")
Bah! They’re not robots. [THIS](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.neatstuff.net/space-robots/Mr-Machine-big-pic.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.neatstuff.net/space-robots/Mr_machine-robot.html&h=413&w=360&sz=44&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=sdqVE9jEjjBxPM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=109&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmr.%2Bmachine%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26safe%3Doff) is a robot! ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/14 "2006-08-16T21:04:44Z")
They need a few sammiches. And their knees are pointy. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/15 "2006-08-16T21:11:26Z")
Anyone else hearing “Electric Barbarella” by Duran Duran and “Yours Truly 2095” by ELO alternating in their minds? 'Cos _I_ sure am. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/16 "2006-08-16T21:19:28Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] You get some pretty hot robots/androids in anime, e.g., [Chii and Freya from Chobits](http://haven.joueb.com/images/chobits%20-%20freya%20&%20chii%2002.jpg) [Mahoro from Mahromatic](http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b372/yokohama0080/Mahoro/Mahoro-006.jpg) (She’s also a very powerful battle android) and [Nuku Nuku from All-purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku](http://members.aol.com/NukuNuku54/Nuku/Nuku_Lg-03_a.jpg) (She has the brain of a cat, so perhaps doesn’t quite qualify as a robot) [/QUOTE] Eh. [Major Kusanagi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Kusanagi) can kick all their asses. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/17 "2006-08-16T21:31:42Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] They need a few sammiches. And their knees are pointy. [/QUOTE] I agree. Chest bones are a definite turn off. Mounting that would be like screwing a bicycle. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/18 "2006-08-16T21:33:40Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] Eh. [Major Kusanagi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Kusanagi) can kick all their asses. [/QUOTE] Not Mahoro or Nuku Nuku: they are both extremely powerful battle androids, in spite of their appearances. But she doesn’t qualify, since the Major is a cyborg, not a robot. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/19 "2006-08-16T21:34:26Z")
[Now this is a robot…](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Metropolis.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986/20 "2006-08-16T21:41:27Z")
[QUOTE=wm–] Is it just me, or is Tricia Helfer a lot cuter in her “civilian” clothes/hair/makeup than when she’s all done up as Number 6? [/QUOTE] It’s not just you. Actually, the Gina version of 6 looked a lot more “normal”, and I thought she was definitely hotter than Caprica/peroxide 6. Not to say Caprica 6 isn’t smokin’ herself. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-a-hotter-pair-of-robots-in-the-universe-i-think-not/368986.md?page=2)