Thursday, November 11, 2010

Rate the Robots II

Alright, so number two in our Rate the Robots series has us taking a look at a seemingly insignificant member of robot lore...




Robot: Training remote, as seen in Star Wars Episode IV,

Overview:
The training remote was a simple type of training droid most often employed as a means of schooling whiney hillbillies in the Jedi arts.


Pros: Now we're talking! Quick, unpredictable, and unpretentious. This little doohickey had a job to do and it did it.

Cons:
Little electric jolts fired from the training-remote eyes will slap your ass worse than a locker room towel, blast shields be damned.

Reality Check: The training remote jumps about with no obvious signs of how, exactly, it's jumping about. It's the future, baby!

Rating: 6 out of 10. Sometimes less is more.


3 comments:

  1. Actually, I hadn't given this robot that much thought until you mentioned it. IMO ,I think I'd score it lower than you did.

    Can't wait to see the rest of the robot posts.

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  2. Cube - My rating system is definetely subjective, but I think the concept of this robot holds up 30 or so years later, hence the decent rating.

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  3. I hear ya. It's just that I want a robot that will be an assistant, i.e., it will do everything I don't want to do. Hence, my score will score the humanoid ones higher that the roly poly ones :-)

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