They are most likely based on the robots in the Terminator movies.
Think of the Terminator movie where the robot forms out of the metal globule.
Due to his role in the Terminator movies, people referred to him as the "Governator."
It reminded them of something from the Terminator movies, she said.
On the 22nd of May is the fourth "Terminator" movie.
In the Terminator movies, there are many forms of predestination paradoxes.
These cuts mirror the same scars seen on John's face in the opening scene of the second Terminator movie.
The future looks just like the future described in the first Terminator movie.
What the Terminator movies teach me is that artificial entities no longer trouble us per se.
(The first of the Terminator movies came out in 1984.)