The 15 Greatest Robots of Movies and Television

Since antiquity, civilizations around the world have imagined the possibilities of artificial life forms. From Hephaestus, the ancient Greek god of craftsmen who built mechanical servants and golden handmaidens, to the protective clay golems of medieval Jewish folklore, to the lifelike automaton presented by the engineer Yan Shi to King Mu of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty, robots of one form or another have existed almost as long as mythology and storytelling itself. In the modern era, the rise of ad...