If a naked man materializes in a ball of lightning on your front lawn, grab the family and run — seasoned moviegoers know it is not a man at all, but a Terminator assassin killbot that will not hesitate to use your blood for house paint, or perhaps a macabre shade of nail polish. In fact, if the movies are to be believed, most anything that has glowing eyes and emits an electric hum should be avoided lest you end up just one more casualty in the apparently inevitable War Against the Machines.

Thankfully, the following 12 friendly chipheads are proof that not all movie bots are cold-circuited killers. Some of them may be useless in a fight, but they almost all share an unwavering admiration of — and undying loyalty to — us fleshy humans. (Maker knows why.) And we cherish them in return because, as master inventor Professor Hobby states in Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence:

"In the beginning, didn't God create Adam to love him?"

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