The Carnegie Science Center has a section called Roboworld, with a number of exhibits on robotics.
Much of the exhibit is hands on, so you can control the robots to do things – including displaying dollar signs in their eyes.
The highlight of the exhibit is the Robot Hall of Fame. It includes fictional robots over the years.
The robot Maria appeared in a movie called Metropolis, produced in Germany in 1927. Maria stands apart in that she is a female robot.
Her art deco form is symbolic of the times she was created.
Gort is from the 1951 movie classic The Day the Earth Stood Still. As an eight foot tall robot, Gort can vaporize anything he wants with his laser like vision.
The movie stands today as one of the all time sci fi classics, with Gort being the star.
Robby The Robot was featured in the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet. With his smug superiority towards human, Robby makes the movie (along with a young Leslie Nielsen as an astronaut chasing after the female lead Anne Francis).
The Iron Giant is supposed to be 50′ tall – he is a genial behemoth as a result of damage to his head. He is the star of an animated movie of the same name made in 1999 who befriends a 9 year old boy after landing on earth. Of course the U.S. government wants to destroy it.
Danger, Will Robinson! Everyone I know knew this robot and his famed line, however I never knew his name was B-9. He, like Robby, has human emotions.
C-3PO and R2D2. Probably the most famous robots in film history.
