Description:

Designed to terminate other life forms

Affiliation:

Skynet

Types:

- T-800 (Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton)
- T-1000 (Mimetic polyalloy, liquid metal)
- T-X (Solid endoskeleton with a liquid metal exterior)
- T-3000 (Human converted into programmable nanomachines)
- Rev-9 (Solid endoskeleton plus a fully independent liquid metal shell)

Highlights:

- Cyberdyne Systems develops advanced AI & military automation
- The AI becomes Skynet, achieves self-awareness, & views humanity as a threat
- Skynet launches Judgment Day, triggering global nuclear war
- Surviving humans form a resistance led by John Connor
- Skynet's first successful Infiltrator unit was the T-800