20 Of The Coolest Female Robots In Science Fiction

Screenshot, EVE in WALL-E (Image via Walt Disney Pictures)

16. EVE (WALL-E)

EVE doesn’t mess around. When she first visits the trashed Earth in order to scan for life, EVE (which stands for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is downright scary. She’s so focused on her task – to search for living life on what has become a complete trash planet – that fellow protagonist robot WALL-E is frightened of her.

The two robots soon develop a friendship. WALL-E, a simple trash collecting robot, has somehow managed to develop sentience during his long, lonely stay on the deserted planet Earth. EVE also drops hints that she is sentient, not to mention far more advanced than her new companion. She’s sleekly designed, for one – Jonathan Ives, the designer who was responsible for the look of the iPod, helped to develop her look.

EVE also has a bevy of scanners and monitoring equipment. She also has “fingers” that can morph into different shapes, depending on the task at hand. This scanning probe also happens to have a plasma cannon installed in her right arm, which comes in handy on a few occasions. Not entirely sure why a robot looks for plants would need one, but it’s cool nonetheless.

It’s a little strange to use feminine pronouns for a robot, especially when said robot is a floating assemblage of inhuman shapes. However, from the name to the voice acting (by Elissa Knight), it’s pretty clear that EVE is coded as female. We’ll take her – she’s pretty awesome, after all.