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Author: Arivne

Dec 26th 2011 at 2:44:42 AM

^ Tropers/JonnyB: Here is [[http://www.jeffbots.com/vincent.jpg a picture of Vincent]], one of the little robots. It looks to me like he has a torso (and those two projections below are extendable legs, as shown in [[http://www.jeffbots.com/bob.jpg this picture of Bob]]). They would not count as "floating head robots", but would count under the expanded definition in the 2nd paragraph of the description.
 
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/FlashGordon''. The Emperor Ming has a roughly spherical robot that floats around acting as an escort, spying on people and zapping anyone who tried to escape or kill Ming.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* LarryNiven's short story "Cloak of Anarchy" had "copseyes", spherical robots the size of a basketball that floated around Free Parks. They had a television camera connected to police headquarters and a sonic stunner. Anyone who tried to commit violence in a Free Park was stunned unconscious.
* RobertHeinlein's novel ''Friday''. Police had Public Eyes that they used to perform surveillance. The Eyes had cameras that allowed an officer monitoring them to see what was going on, with a memory that could hold 12 hours of visual record. An unmonitored Public Eye floated around, following any object with the temperature of a human body.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* 1980's ''TheTwilightZone'' episode "To See The Invisible Man". The police of the future have spherical surveillance robots that float around watching for criminal activity, such as anyone interacting with a criminal sentenced to "invisibility".

[[AC:TabletopRPG]]
* Classic ''{{Traveller}}'' supplement Book 8 ''Robots''. Robots with artificial gravity didn't need any legs, and could be designed with all of their components inside a single chassis and without appendages.