# Identify these robot silhouettes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243 "2014-04-29T02:19:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/1 "2014-04-29T02:19:52Z")
[Link to Sheldon’s T-shirt](http://wornontv.net/30477/?switch=0) from “The Relationship Diremption.” How many can you name? ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/2 "2014-04-29T02:45:48Z")
Is it saying too much that I paused the episode just so I could try to figure them out? Dalek? Lost-in-Space? Bender? That’s all I’ve got. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/3 "2014-04-29T02:46:21Z")
I see… The Iron Giant (film of the same name), Robby (Forbidden Planet), Robot (Lost in Space), a Dalek (Doctor Who - not really a robot, but whatevs), VINCent and BOB (The Black Hole), Bender (Futurama), a skinless Swarzenegger-type Terminator unit (Terminator), R2D2, C3PO and the ‘garbage can’ droid (Star Wars), Maria (Metropolis), I think a toaster-style Cylon (Battlestar Galactica, remake), one I’m pretty sure is Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), one that may be Wall-E, but I’m not sure his body section is quite right. So, 12 for sure, 3 maybes and 5 definitely unidentified…not a bad score, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/4 "2014-04-29T02:52:03Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > I see… > > The Iron Giant (film of the same name), Robby (Forbidden Planet), Robot (Lost in Space), a Dalek (Doctor Who - not really a robot, but whatevs), VINCent and BOB (The Black Hole), Bender (Futurama), a skinless Swarzenegger-type Terminator unit (Terminator), R2D2, C3PO and the ‘garbage can’ droid (Star Wars), Maria (Metropolis), I think a toaster-style Cylon (Battlestar Galactica, remake), one I’m pretty sure is Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), one that may be Wall-E, but I’m not sure his body section is quite right. > > So, 12 for sure, 3 maybes and 5 definitely unidentified…not a bad score, I think. That’s pretty damned impressive. I got about half of yours. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/5 "2014-04-29T02:53:10Z")
Lets see (in no real order): [ul] [li]V.I.N.CENT (Black hole)[/li][li]Robot from Metropolis[/li][li]Robbie (Forbidden Planet)[/li][li]Robot from Lost in Space[/li][li]Old B.O.B (Black Hole)[/li][li]Maximillian (Black Hole)[/li][li]Dalek[/li][li]Iron Giant[/li][li]Bender[/li][li]Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still)[/li][li]Power Droid (Star Wars)[/li][li]R2D2[/li][li]C3PO[/li][li]Omnidroid (The Incredibles)[/li][li]Twiki (Buck Rogers TV)[/li][li]7-Zark-7 & 1-Rover-1 (Battle of the Planets)[/li][li]I think the one down at the lower right is the T-1000 endo-skeleton fron Terminator[/li][/ul] I think there is an original series Battlestar Galactica Cylon Centurion as well. Not sure what the circle-thing under R2D2 is. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/6 "2014-04-29T02:59:48Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > Lets see (in no real order): > > [LIST] > [li]Maximillian (Black Hole)[/li] Ack, you’re right…that’s the one I noted as a possible Cylon. So, scratch one of my maybes and allow me to facepalm hard (why do I never remember HIM, when the other two are so clear in my head). ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/7 "2014-04-29T03:07:14Z")
All I know is robot silhouettes without Crow and Tom is a crime. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/8 "2014-04-29T03:11:17Z")
Bender the Great is there, so the others don’t matter ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/9 "2014-04-29T04:13:52Z")
I’m pretty sure I see either Huey, Dewey or Louie from _Silent Running._ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/10 "2014-04-29T04:32:27Z")
I’d forgotten how annoying Twiki was until I saw him in silhouette. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/11 "2014-04-29T04:46:39Z")
Revising my estimate of my score - I’m going to increase my confidence on one of my maybes and acknowledge I’m wrong on the other two, so 13 right, 2 wrong, 5 unidentified. I’m pretty much 100% certain that’s Gort. As acknowledged above, the ‘Cylon’ I guessed was actually Maximilian from The Black Hole, and my ‘Wall-E’ was certainly 1-Rover-1, after looking him up based on Battle Pope’s list. I agree with his Cylon, Omnidroid, and Twiki, and can find 7-Zark-7, now that I know what he looks like. Just leaves the spherical one next to the Cylon and Artoo to ID. > [@silenus](#): > > I’m pretty sure I see either Huey, Dewey or Louie from _Silent Running._ The one standing behind Threepio’s back? That’s the ‘garbage can’/Gonk/Power Droid. [Pretty obvious silhouette those guys have.](http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Power_droid) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/12 "2014-04-29T04:52:00Z")
What is the disk in the lower right (and left)? Is that supposed to be HAL’s eye? :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/13 "2014-04-29T04:54:49Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > What is the disk in the lower right (and left)? Is that supposed to be HAL’s eye? :dubious: 😕 :smack: Never thought of that but I’d bet you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/14 "2014-04-29T04:56:55Z")
Hmm. Could be. It seems to have spokes, which HAL’s eye doesn’t, but that could just be artifacting. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/15 "2014-04-29T05:08:17Z")
… And the one next to it that looks like it’s wearing a kilt? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/16 "2014-04-29T05:19:55Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > … And the one next to it that looks like it’s wearing a kilt? 😕 I figure thats the 1978 BSG Cylon. The original had mesh skirting hanging down it’s rear from waist to about knee level. [http://www.cylonempire.com/centurion.html](http://www.cylonempire.com/centurion.html) (there are other pics about but thats the clearest) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/17 "2014-04-29T05:30:12Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > I figure thats the 1978 BSG Cylon. The original had mesh skirting hanging down it’s rear from waist to about knee level. > > [http://www.cylonempire.com/centurion.html](http://www.cylonempire.com/centurion.html) (there are other pics about but thats the clearest) By your command! ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/18 "2014-04-29T16:36:07Z")
Could the little circle be the mechanical aliens from Batteries Not Included? I’m not sure if they count as robots… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/19 "2014-04-29T19:52:14Z")
I thought it might be a [Zeroid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sergeant_Major_Zero.jpg)from [Terrahawks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrahawks) What about the one at 2 o’clock? I thought possibly a [quark](http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Quark), but its too small to see clearly. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243/20 "2014-04-29T21:26:43Z")
The far right looks like one of Syndrome’s combat droids from _The Incredibles_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-these-robot-silhouettes/687243.md?page=2)