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welcome to see that top 5 reach time we meet we count down another hot cnet list I'm Tom Merritt whether you consider the automata of a festus workshop the original robot or maybe you side with the automatic flute player of the ninth century Persian book of ingenious devices you know robots play a great role in our literature but movies made the idea of robots come alive in a way never seen before so I trawled the Internet's looking for your ideas about the coolest robots from the movies ever let's count down the top-5 coolest movie robots and yes we're including androids kicking it off at number five is the classic Maria from metropolis in 1927 probably the first movie robot ever she was a debased version of the real Maria who fought for the cause of the workers and unlike the real Maria the robot version was quite the dancer coming in at number four Marvin the Paranoid Android with genuine people personalities from the Sirius cybernetics corporation brain the size of a planet and he's number 4 D pressing up to number three Robby the Robot something of a movie star himself was Robby he premiered in 1956 alongside Leslie Nielsen in the epic Forbidden Planet he went on to many more appearances including the twilight zone Colombo Mork & Mindy Charmin commercials and star wars episode 1 the Phantom Menace geek points for knowing where he appeared in Star Wars fighting in at number two Johnny 5 officially his name is strategic artificially intelligent nuclear transport number 5 after a lightning strike hungry for input he was saved by Stephanie yet doomed to be hunted by el debarge's who's Johnny for the rest of his days who could possibly beat Johnny Five before we get to number one here's the rest of the top 10 movie robots now remember some robots like Rosie from the Jetsons are more TV than movie so maybe another list will be in order all right let's get to our number one the coolest movie robot based on your opinions on Twitter as well as our board of impartial judges at number one it's r2d2 how can you not have r2 at number one in fact it almost has to be a pair here because we all know our two is not half as cool without his pal c-3po the little astromech droid has a strange relationship to darth vader but he's always there to mouth off disobey and save the day plus I had a remote-control r2d2 as a kid so he wins thanks to everyone on Twitter and Facebook who posted their suggestions for the list we had more than 50 robots suggested some I'd totally forgotten about her never even knew in the first place I'm gonna post the full list of those robots at our blog blog sina TV calm and you can make further suggestions there if you wish that's it for this edition of seen that top five I'm Tom Merritt see you next