Fembot Fantasia
We handpicked a host of lovely and powerful cyborgs to illustrate Annalee Newitz's essay on pop-culture fembots, but film and TV history has blessed us with many, many more. Who did we miss? Which 'bot in this gallery is your favorite? Next week I'd like to crown one fembot with a People's Choice Award. Personally, I think Kelly LeBrock (Weird Science) portrayed the hottest fembot ever. What do you think? Tell us in the comments section below. —Megan Miller
in the magazine you guys forgot data from star trek
Posted by: isaac | August 14, 2006 at 07:05 PM
What about Replicater Carter from Stargate SG-1...
Posted by: Becca | August 14, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Winona Ryder, aka Annalee Call from Alien Resurrection, probably deserves an honorable mention.
Posted by: mike | August 14, 2006 at 09:21 PM
Galaxina. Rhoda from My Living Doll. Andrea from What Are Little Girls Made Of? Jocasta from the Avengers. All those hot chrome Soroyama robots.
Not that I think about female robots alot...
Posted by: Jeff | August 14, 2006 at 09:44 PM
You missed my favorite, Angel Lips, from the Ruby, The Adventures of a Galactic Gumshoe. (http://tinyurl.com/nr9v9)
"Plastic, I love the smell of plastic."
BTW:You guys should allow some html and use an antispam service.
Posted by: Marc | August 14, 2006 at 10:14 PM
There are lots of fembots in Japanese anime.
A more serious ones in the Ghost in the Shell 2, innocence and in mainstream anime as Chi in Chobits.
In books we have Dors in Asimovs Forward the foundation.
Posted by: Torulf Greek | August 14, 2006 at 10:43 PM
cherry 2000
Posted by: Jerry Hunter | August 15, 2006 at 12:08 AM
The Buffybot could be folded into this thesis. Somewhat.
Posted by: Dodd | August 15, 2006 at 12:22 AM
A lot of good choices, but Six wins this, hands down:
"33": "God has a plan for you, Gaius ..."
"Home, Part II":
BALTAR: "Well, you're not a chip. That we've established."
SIX: "Yes."
BALTAR: "But Sharon being pregnant does suggest that you are rather more than a simple manifestation of my subconscious. And I'm not... crazy?"
SIX: "No."
BALTAR: "Then who, or what, are you exactly?"
SIX: "I'm an angel of God sent here to protect you. To guide you, to love you."
BALTAR: "To what end?"
SIX: "To the end of the human race."
Still makes my skin crawl ....
Posted by: Scott | August 15, 2006 at 02:02 AM
what about seven of nine?
Posted by: cajuntad | August 15, 2006 at 06:32 AM
How could you forget Cherry 2000?
Posted by: PajamaGuy | August 15, 2006 at 07:11 AM
Galaxina should be the #1 on any fembot list. The movie was horribly cheesy, but Galaxina is by far the most desirable fembot in movie history.
Posted by: Felix | August 15, 2006 at 08:40 AM
I agree with Scott here. Six has my heart and soul bound up whenever I see her on scree. And frankly I've never been much attracted to blonde women. There always has to be some exception to the rule. :\
Why Lord!?! Why!?! Oh yeah, she's hot as hell! :)
Posted by: Chris Giddings | August 15, 2006 at 09:25 AM
Harry Mudd's women on star trek.
Posted by: magicjava | August 15, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Aqua from "Heartbeeps". Bernadette Peters wuz hot.
And what, no one mentions Vicki the Robot from "Small Wonder"?
Posted by: jk | August 15, 2006 at 10:47 AM
Ping, the "PS2 accessory" in the web-comic MegaTokyo by Fred Gallagher.
http://www.megatokyo.com/
Posted by: FoxWaiting | August 15, 2006 at 11:27 AM
My fav would be Rommie from the Andromeda TV series. Beautiful and deadly, with the mind of a warship and absolute loyalty to her captain.
Posted by: DrBob | August 15, 2006 at 12:35 PM
You haven't gone back far enough. 'Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine' from 1965 has some wonderful early fembots in gold bikinis. They served as the model for many others.
Posted by: Mike Evangelist | August 15, 2006 at 12:54 PM
What about Rosie, the Jetson's maid?
Posted by: kellercyclist | August 15, 2006 at 01:18 PM
Number six of course. She's bent on the elimination of humankind and such a hottie to boot!
Posted by: Kirk | August 15, 2006 at 01:50 PM
Tiffany Brissette as Vicki the Robot. She was the robotic child maid I had a crush on as a child. Part of a bad tv series in the mid eighties called Small Wonder.
Posted by: Jody | August 15, 2006 at 03:31 PM
What about Kristanna Loken, a female terminator, called T-X or Terminatrix, from Terminator 3?
Posted by: Gary | August 15, 2006 at 03:40 PM
Darryl Hannah as Pris in Blade Runner
Posted by: Jon | August 15, 2006 at 06:05 PM
The first mention of a Fembot (the actual word "fembot") that I've seen to date was in an old episode of the Bionic Man from the 70's. It referred to a suite of female robots (all the 'bots in the episode were feminine) that were so lifelike you would have sworn that they were being played by actual humans in the episode...
Posted by: Tiberius | August 15, 2006 at 08:13 PM
Umm.. what about "7 of 9" from Star Trek: TNG
Posted by: George | August 15, 2006 at 09:14 PM