Who is Your Favorite Robot of All-Time?

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When you were young, did you watch cartoons or shows featuring robots? If you did, who is your all-time favorite? I still remember when I was in school, it was the early 80's when most of the cartoons shown in the Philippines, was based on robots, The president banned the shows for unconfirmed reasons. We were very sad because we were not able to know how the series ended. Would you believe I bought a complete DVD set of Voltes Five (Which is my Favorite), when I was already working because I want to know how the story ended. How about you do you have any robot you have in mind? I have posted the excerpt from Wikipedia stating the discontinuation of the shows. "The Frontier Enterprises dubs were later aired in the Philippines, where dubbing was continued by the local broadcaster prior to the show's cancellation, allegedly by order of dictator-president Ferdinand Marcos. "Mazinger Z" was first aired by Philippine broadcaster GMA Network at an early primetime slot of 6:00PM in 1979 and it became an instant hit among children of that time. The whole 6:00PM slot from Monday to Friday featured a series of "super robots," such as Grendizer, Mekanda and Voltes V with "Mazinger Z" airing on Wednesday. There were rumors that Marcos found the series "too violent" for the then Philippine government censored television industry while others say, the series was too popular in the ratings game, killing competition of other TV networks allegedly owned by Marcos business cronies. Newspaper accounts of the time cite the incident of a young boy jumping off the roof of his house while mimicking the "super robots" as proof of the negative influence of the violence in the "super robot" shows. It should be noted that the dailies of the time were also under the control of the Marcos government."