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There are two kinds of robots in Hollywood: innocuous servants that are one glitch away from murdering their masters, and the bots designed for wholesale slaughter from the start.
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Here's a look at the latter, a purpose-built class of killer machines-and the pioneering models that gave new shape to one of our oldest nightmares.
While there's nothing particularly deadly about the two-legged design of ED-209, which first appeared in 1987's RoboCop, it was iconic enough to remain intact for the 2014 remake.
The Matrix (1999) provided the most alien take on killer bots: the horrific squid-legged, spider-headed Sentinels, which attack victims with multitudes of razor-sharp tentacles.
This article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of Popular Science. See the rest of the magazine here.
