Former NASA roboticist Ayanna Howard rates 11 robots from movies and television for realism.

She discusses the accuracy of "Iron Man" (2008), starring Robert Downey Jr.; "SpiderMan 2" (2004), featuring Alfred Molina; "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), with Arnold Schwarzenegger; and "Transformers" (2007). She also comments on "I, Robot" (2004), with Will Smith; Baymax from "Big Hero 6" (2014); Ava from "Ex Machina" (2014); and "Minority Report" (2002), starring Tom Cruise. Howard analyzes "Black Mirror" S4E5 (2017), "Westworld" S1E1 (2016), TARS from "Interstellar" (2014), and R2D2 and C3PO from "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope" (1977).

Howard is the dean of engineering at The Ohio State University. She was a robotics researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and was the chair of interactive computing at Georgia Tech.
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