Favorite Robotics Team Movies, Documentaries and TV Shows to watch

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What movies, films, documentaries or TV shows do you think are appropriate for Teams to watch while traveling/lunch during team meetings/bonding activities? I have a pretty big list below of Science/engineering/Robotics related movies and shows but I’m wondering if there’s any that people like?

List:

  • Slingshot
  • Mythbusters
  • A Dolphin Tale
  • Wall-E
  • Big Hero 6
  • Short Circuit (ignoring some mild swearing and the robot giving the finger once or twice… It’s rated PG I swear)
  • Real Steel
  • McGyver
  • White Rabbit Project
  • How it’s Made
  • Battle Bots
  • Unchained Reaction
  • Tron (Both Versions)
  • The Imagineering Story (the Disney Engineering Documentary)
  • Robots
  • Race the Sun (Solar Car Racing)
  • Scientific American Frontiers (Woodie Flowers hosted some seasons)

Edits based on suggestions below:

  • More Than Robots
  • Batteries Not Included (possibly inappropriate in one or two scenes, but I haven’t personally seen it before)
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Does Batteries Not Included count? Technically they’re aliens/ufos, but I associate them with robots.

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I’ve never seen it before, but I was reading the synopsis and other than the “fix-its having something like intercourse” for one to get pregnant so they can make more “fix-its” I’d say yes? I’ll have to watch it and see what the author of the synopsis meant by that part.

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I feel like More Than Robots just kind of has to be on this list.

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Spare Parts.

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Moneyball.

Some language and it’s a sports movie, but there’s lots of parallels if you pay attention.

“If we try to play like the Poofs in here, we will lose to the Poofs out there”

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The Matrix
The Terminator
Avengers Age of Ultron

Gotta remind folks that robots aren’t always as nice as the ones we work with.

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From the Earth to the Moon: Episode 5, Spider. (HBO miniseries from 1998). Great insight into design and iteration.

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Where did you find nice robots to work with?!

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Dozer will always be the nicest fellow to ever roam the floor of any field and animation. He is a Stallion among lesser bots.

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True.

Unfortunately I don’t usually get to work with Dozer and our robots have failed to learn the whole break the laws of physics to do what we’re supposed to thing.

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All AGVs/AMRs are just dozers in my mind… If only MiR and Locus robots had googly eyes and a plow…

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Iwombot

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Not strictly robots, but engineering, and improvising/overcoming challenge on a deadline

Apollo 13 (PG)

The Martian (PG-13)

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I, Robot

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Big Dreams in Umatilla
Is a good FRC documentary

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Drive To Survive :checkered_flag:

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The Last Dance

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Apollo 11.

An entire documentary only made of real, archival footage from the mission. One of the most incredible things you can watch.

A total achievement in both engineering and filmmaking.

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