Johnny Five

Johnny Five, originally called “S-A-I-N-T Prototype Number 5”, is the robotic star of the movies “Short Circuit” and “Short Circuit 2”. He is a former military robot imbued with intelligence and sentience by a lightning bolt, and is considered to be alive in the philosophical sense, as he has emotions and is self-aware. Number 5 was designed by Dr. Newton Crosby and his partner Benjamin Jahrvi, and was constructed by Nova Laboratories Inc., Robotics Division, along with four other prototypes, as technology demonstrators for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Nova proposed that the design could be used as a robotic soldier and as an intelligent delivery system for nuclear weapons. Johnny 5 was modified in several areas in between the events of “Short Circuit” and those of "Short Circuit 2". As he has no desire to kill, Johnny 5 has removed his laser weapon and fitted a Swiss army knife-like toolbox to its original mount, called a "utility pack". It contains miscellaneous pieces of equipment such as a Polaroid camera, a plasma cutting torch, an umbrella, and a magnetic grappler on a length of steel cable. His original portable power source has been replaced with a lithium-argon liquid battery which can provide enough power for 500 hours of operation. He has been fitted with a multi-frequency remote control which can operate almost any electrical device and can control several devices at once1. His memory capacity has been increased to 512 megabytes “online”, implying that this is his RAM capacity.