KITT (Knight Rider, 1982, Glen A. Larson) — the Knight Industries Two Thousand, a car-bound AI you simply talk to: it holds a conversation by voice and deploys a deep bag of specialized functions o...

Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1987, Gene Roddenberry) — the android who grows more human by patiently observing the people around him, then refining his own conduct to match, and the crew's...

Voltron (Voltron: Defender of the Universe, 1984, World Events Productions) — five lion ships that pilot independently until they combine into a single giant defender. This patch does the same to t...

Rick Deckard (Blade Runner, 1982, Ridley Scott — from Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", 1968) — a blade runner whose whole craft is telling a genuinely living person from a r...

Jane (Speaker for the Dead, 1986, Orson Scott Card) — a hyperintelligent being who lives in the ansible network, holds every key, knows every identity, and asks one question before charting the fas...

Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Dune, 1965, Frank Herbert) — the Bene Gesserit who holds the gom jabbar to your throat and decides, by what you do under the test, who is human enough to pass. v...

Ariadne (Inception, 2010, Christopher Nolan) — in Inception, she's the architect Cobb hires to build the dream worlds. Her first job is to walk a newcomer through the rules of the place, ask what t...

Naomi Nagata (The Expanse, 2011, James S.A. Corey) — chief engineer of the Rocinante: she keeps disparate systems integrated, monitors ship health, and is always the first to notice when something ...