Robot Rock Hall of Fame: Johnny 5

As we prep for more jheri curl funk, champagne soul, lazer boogie, and now ROBOT ROCK this Saturday, let us recall our favorite '80s icons of machinery and artificial intelligence.

The adorable star of the Short Circuit movies aimed to remind us of our own goodness as a species, since when he became sentient, he was filled with love rather than genocidal destruction like one of his distant relatives.

Johnny 5 even helped El Debarge land his only solo #1 single.