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Robot Hall of Fame

Posted by michael on from the Tom-Servo-and-Crow dept.

Smaz writes "Apparently Carnegie Mellon has set up a Hall of Fame for robots and their inventors. Wonder if it'll have the pull of a RnR Hall of Fame or Baseball Hall of Fame? I'd visit." Any nominees?

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  1. 1 vote for Hero 2000 by OwnerOfWhinyCat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For the appropriate era, the Hero 2000 deserves a place of honor.

    Robots have many useful purposes like manufacturing and deep sea exploration, but this non-trivial, non-toy robot was designed to inspire. It was an enormously complicated kit that our high school electronics class put together, that made all those stupid-seeming lessons on how to bias a transistor, and the million obscure uses of op-amps worthwhile. It illustrated for us, why you took the time to make good solder joints, and what these funny logic gates could actually be made to do. Go Heathkit!