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Similar idea to the movies page.  This page however would have information about the actual robots in the movies along with the answers to the questions we provided in class.

Writings based on the actual robots, society, and life would go under each robot's individual page. Example:

Gort is a fictional robot in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, played by 7'7" tall actor Lock Martin. He is famous in part due to the phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" from that movie, a favorite bit of trivia for film buffs. This phrase has subsequently been used in many movies, games, and other works of popular culture. The Gort suit was designed and built by Perkins Bailey.

Name: Gort  Movie: The Day The Earth Stood Still   "There's no limit to what [Gort] could do. He could destroy the Earth."

HAL is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. The voice of HAL 9000 was performed by Canadian actor Douglas Rain. In the book, HAL became operational on January 12, 1997 (1992 in the movie)[1] at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois, and was created by Dr. Chandra. In the 2001 film, HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, and reasoning.

Name: HAL 9000 Movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey  "Open the pod bay doors, HAL."