# Name that Machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364 "2006-08-19T18:56:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/1 "2006-08-19T18:56:54Z")
HK-47 Hactar WOTAN Red Queen IQ-9 M5 B.O.B. SCMODS Zhora XR EV-9D9 Wintermute Durandal The General Annalee Vanessa Goddard ROK Vector Sigma Hymie Rosie GWB-666 Obie Hex Dr. Theopolis Gort Irona Dog Dora Skynet Alex 7000 ED-209 Ash Jet Jaguar Huey, Duey, and Louie Robbie, Speedy, and Cutie MU-TH-UR Landru Number Six Orac Futura Magic Voice Conky 2000 Colossus Hector and Vector EPICAC 343 Guilty Spark Kryten Above is a list of fictional robots, cyborgs, machines, AIs, computers, and other electronic computer systems or networks, taken from film, literature, comics, video games, television, cartoons, and pretty much all over. Can you name what fictional work each one is from? And can you answer the question: computer or robot? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/2 "2006-08-19T19:11:43Z")
MAGIC VOICE!!! from MST3K…computer Colossus is from _The Forbin Project_ and is also a computer. Conky 2000 is from Pee Wee’s Playhouse and is a robot. Rosie is from the Jetsons and is also a robot. Irona is Richie Rich’s robot maid. Hex is the magical supercomputer from the Discworld novels. Kryten is a robot from Red Dwarf. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/3 "2006-08-19T19:12:47Z")
Isn’t EV-9D9 a Star Wars droid? (the torturer in Jabba’s palace?) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/4 "2006-08-19T19:14:31Z")
A couple of d’ohs that I missed… Dr. Theopilus is from the TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and is a computer. Jet Jaguar is a robot from a Godzilla movie, but damifiremember which one. Oh! And Gort is the robot from _The Day The Earth Stood Still_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/5 "2006-08-19T19:15:32Z")
This is the last one I’m answering, really! Dora is Lazarus Long’s sentient spaceship, so I guess would be computer rather than robot. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/6 "2006-08-19T19:16:43Z")
[QUOTE=Fish] HK-47 Hactar WOTAN Red Queen IQ-9 M5 B.O.B. SCMODS Zhora XR EV-9D9 Durandal The General Annalee Vanessa Goddard ROK Vector Sigma Hymie Rosie GWB-666 Obie Hex Dr. Theopolis Gort Irona Dog Dora Skynet Alex 7000 ED-209 Ash Jet Jaguar Huey, Duey, and Louie Robbie, Speedy, and Cutie MU-TH-UR Landru Number Six Orac Futura Magic Voice Conky 2000 Colossus Hector and Vector EPICAC 343 Guilty Spark Kryten Above is a list of fictional robots, cyborgs, machines, AIs, computers, and other electronic computer systems or networks, taken from film, literature, comics, video games, television, cartoons, and pretty much all over. Can you name what fictional work each one is from? And can you answer the question: computer or robot? [/QUOTE] Kryten - Red Dwarf - robot 343 Guilty Spark - robot from Halo Wintermute - A.I. from…uh…snow crash? Number Six - hubba hubba… 99 44/100 woman, 66/100 Cylon Landru - Star Trek Dr. Thopolis - ‘Scientist’ Buck Rogers, carried by Wiki? Huie Dewie and Louie - were they the ROV’s from The Abyss? Goddard - Jimmie Neutron’s dog. Play Dead! BOOM! ---
**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/7 "2006-08-19T19:17:42Z")
Hactar is from the Hitchhiker’s Guide series. Don’t remember which book. Computer. Wintermute is Neuromancer. AI system. Durundal is from Marathon 2: Durundal, a semi-obscure video game? Um…I believe it was a ship. So…computer? Goddard is from Jimmy Neutron. Robot dog. Dog is from Half-Life 2. Robot doggish bearish mammoth thing. Skynet is from Terminator. AI system/computer network. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/8 "2006-08-19T19:20:16Z")
And I guess a few of my own: JJ1 - Holly JJ2 - Fi JJ3 - Sam ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/9 "2006-08-19T19:59:15Z")
**jayjay** gets 11 points for Magic Voice, Colossus, Conky 2000, Rosie, Irona, Hex, Kryten, EV-939, Dr. Theopolis, Gort, and Dora. **Unintentionally Blank** has 7 points with Kryten, 343 Guilty Spark, Wintermute, Number Six (hubba hubba), Landru, Dr. Theopolis, and Goddard. (I’m counting these as simulposts.) **Electronic Chaos** has 6, for Hactar, Wintermute, Durandal, Goddard, Dog, and Skynet. Still remaining: > [@](#): > > HK-47 > WOTAN > Red Queen > IQ-9 > M5 > B.O.B. > SCMODS > Zhora > XR > The General > Annalee > Vanessa > ROK > Vector Sigma > Hymie > GWB-666 > Obie > Alex 7000 > ED-209 > Ash > Huey, Duey, and Louie > Robbie, Speedy, and Cutie > MU-TH-UR > Orac > Futura > Hector and Vector > EPICAC On JJ-1, I’m guessing Holly as the central computer in Red Dwarf. (Is everybody having fun yet?) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/10 "2006-08-19T20:03:08Z")
Oops. **Unintentionally Blank** didn’t give the story for Wintermute, so that score should be 6. And **Electronic Chaos** didn’t give the book for Hactar — but he is from one of the Hitchhiker’s books, somewhere — so that should be 5. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/11 "2006-08-19T20:12:35Z")
Just caught another one! B.O.B. is the old robot in _The Black Hole_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/12 "2006-08-19T20:13:39Z")
And you’re correct, **Fish**. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/13 "2006-08-19T20:15:15Z")
Gah! I’m posting too much here. But Huey, Dewey and Louie were the robots in _Silent Running_, weren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/14 "2006-08-19T20:15:34Z")
M5 is a computer from Star Trek. The General is a computer from The Prisoner. ---
**Author:** ![Coin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Coin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/15 "2006-08-19T20:25:19Z")
ED-209 was from the first Robocop movie. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/16 "2006-08-19T20:26:46Z")
HK-47 is a psychotic, homicidal robot from the video game “Knights of the old Republic.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/17 "2006-08-19T20:34:05Z")
S.C.M.O.D.S. is the computer system from the Blues Brothers (State County Municipal Offender Datat System)(IIRC) Epicac is the computer that falls in love in a Vonnegut Short Story (I am embarrased that I have to look up which one) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/18 "2006-08-19T20:37:52Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Rosewater] Epicac is the computer that falls in love in a Vonnegut Short Story (I am embarrased that I have to look up which one) [/QUOTE] The story is called Epicac. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/19 "2006-08-19T20:42:48Z")
Yes, Huey Duey and Louie were the robots from “Silent Running.” Everybody else is also correct. 🙂 Here’s what’s left: > [@](#): > > WOTAN > Red Queen > IQ-9 > Zhora > XR > Annalee > Vanessa > ROK > Vector Sigma > Hymie > GWB-666 > Obie > Alex 7000 > Ash > Robbie, Speedy, and Cutie > MU-TH-UR > Orac > Futura > Hector and Vector I keep expecting :smack: from people when they realize who some of the names were. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364/20 "2006-08-19T20:46:12Z")
Hymie is from Get Smart. And I think WOTAN is from Dr. Who. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-machine/369364.md?page=2)