Robot Or Not?

The Country Bears, Chuck E. Cheese, and the things from Five Nights at Freddy’s.

Live from RelayCon WWDC 2016, it’s a special live edition of Robot or Not.

He’s a droid with a cough. So what’s the deal?

They go up, they go down. They might even go sideways from time to time. And they can be smart. But are they robots?

Go go Gadget! Also we get off on a tangent about Penny, inspired by The Flop House.

Please state the nature of the medical emergency. Can a hologram be a robot?

From the AMC TV series “Humans,” the lifelike Synths look like humans but don’t act like it. And they bleed a funny color.

He’s an inflatable, medical robot from “Big Hero 6”—but can you back up your personality and still be a robot?

Our own robot (or not) is in the spotlight at last.

If he only had a heart.

It’s made of liquid metal.

Is it even a game? What if you had a video game that featured a robot?

From Bungie’s bestselling video game, Ghosts, Exos, Rasputin, and other things that might be robots.

A software model of a flatworm, piloting a Lego Mindstorms toy.

Agents and Oracles and Architects from the “Matrix” trilogy.

They listen to us and talk back. But is that enough?

Roy Batty, Pris, and all the rest. They’ve seen the Tannhauser Gate, but are they robots?

Living rail cars in Sodor.

The bots from “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

Enter the realm of the very, very tiny as John and Jason ponder if size matters when it comes to whether something is a robot or not.