Seriously, as one of the first iconic epics “Metropolis” hinges on a robot, and that movie came out in 1927. In the intervening years, there have been hundreds of robots in film. Here are the ...

9. R2-D2's loyal pal C-3PO ... Like "Terminator's" T-800, this robot was bad in one movie, and good in the other. In "Alien," it isn't revealed that Ash is an android until his dying breaths.