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"Halt."
—SECUR-T
"Please remain stationary. A service bot will be here to assist you, momentarily."
—SECUR-T

The SECUR-T units are steward-bots aboard the Axiom in WALL•E. Their name is an obvious play on the word "Security".

WALL•E[]

The two of them are set on duty for the scanning completion of the EVE probes until they display the plant icon that one EVE have encountered until she is taken to the Axiom office. Later, they are constantly chasing WALL•E and EVE after WALL•E accidentally frees the rejected robots. The steward bots see WALL•E, EVE and the defective robots as 'rogue robots'. When WALL•E, EVE and the liberated robots try to bring the positive example of the plant to the Holo-Detector, AUTO sends several Stewards to destroy them and the plant. However, the bots manage to demolish the SECUR-T bots dispatched easily. During the credits, one of them was repaired, later seen helping humanity restore Earth with a PR-T and WALL•A.

Trivia[]

  • These robots have a screen on the front and an aluminum speaker on the back. They express themselves by using pictures. The white hand in the red background symbolizes "stop".
  • SECUR-T bots' sights double as cameras, used two times through the film when against WALL•E and EVE.
  • Stewards appear to represent the military of the Axiom, acting as it's security forces and presumably the rest of the BnL fleet. They appear to be able to stop only machines that follow the pathway nodes, or close to it. Any bots that do not can get around them, depending on their mobility.
  • Ironically, for their purpose, SECUR-Ts boast terrible defense and are only ever useful in larger numbers. They lack an offense of their own, and their armor cannot withstand a beating from massage bots like HAN-S.
  • Like AUTO, Stewards appear to be unable to develop sentience. This could be attributed to the fact that they are designed for security purposes, and allowing them to develop their own feelings and judgement might lead to them overriding orders or programming that would harm the humans or the ship. On the contrary, a Steward appears to be scared after EVE throws him in the closet after taking an image of them. He was shaking nervously while his siren lights darted around.
    • The robots may gain sentience when straying from their path and/or orders. A great example is M-O, who strayed away from his path to clean WALL•E. He is later seen saving WALL•E and EVE from the airlock in the Garbage Disposal, gaining his sentience. WALL•E takes EVE off of her mission, and she gains sentience too. The Steward in the closet has been taken off of his path and potentially gained sentience. AUTO had to gain sentience as per directive A-113 so that he could make decisions on what to do with anything that would threaten the directive.
  • The Steward Bots can also have their screens show a plant (if they find a plant life in an EVE robot), a yellow "Caution" sign (if a human has fallen out of their chair, for instance), and a blue "on duty" sign. They don't seem limited by that aspect, however.
  • When idle in their "Steward Kiosks", they show a blue screen sunk into their stomach. The BnL logo and a pair of crescents is displayed on their screen, but lacking electric power. Said logo is similar to the Downtown transit station on Earth. Their signal lights also are held sideways in front. Their shoulders are also raised in order to properly fit into their Kiosks.
  • At one point, a Steward finds the malfunctioning VN-GO robot in a storage closet, and says "Wrong", possibly implying that Stewards have a limited vocabulary by default, like most of the BnL bots.
  • After EVE shoves him in the same closet, he speaks, "Please hold, we are currently having--" before being cut off by the door closing, a parody of being put on hold in phone conversations.
  • Like GO-4, they have a red tractor beam generated from the front. They are capable of temporarily disabling electrical weapons, such as EVE's plasma gun, but are easily blocked off by BRL-A's canopy.
  • These robots can be activated from the bridge, via the Axiom computer, as seen when AUTO activates them in part 2 of "Rogue Robots"
  • They are directly mentioned as 'Stewards' only once, by John when he fell off the hover chair and calls for their attention.
  • Although SECUR-T bots can be considered the secondary antagonists of the film, their have merely 2.5 minutes of screen time.
  • They are the only antagonists to be redeemed at the end of the film.

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