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Robot Hall of Fame
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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I designed a MindStorm robot, can I be in the hall of fame too?
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!
I nominate GORT!!
Producer: NEXT!!
Ralph Wiggum: Chicken necks
The Turk was a "chess playing automaton" back in the mid 1800's. It was a statue of a Turkish guy with a turban and appropriate costume sitting behind a chess board. The opponent would sit on the other side and play against it.
It wasn't a real robot as a midget chess master was carefully concealed inside. They used mirrors and junk to conceal him so if people opened it up and looked, it looked like just gears and machinery in there. I believe the concealed midget used magnets were used to move the pieces.
But it was one of the first times the IDEA of a robot was ever expressed. I think if there is going to be a robot hall of fame this belongs in it for sure.
My motto is: Never give up - unless it's harder than you want it to be.
Someday I'm going to create a hall of fame for distigishable performances of The Robot in break dance.
Al Gore. He's so lifelike he's fooled millions of people. Think about it: He took the initiative in creating the Internet, ran for president, even joined the Apple board. Not only that, he reproduced, bearing 2 lovely children with a known censorship advocate. Take that humans!
I nominate Brigette Helm, her character "Maria," and her creator Rotwang. Oh, I guess we should acknowledge Fritz Lang as well, huh?
"Metropolis" is Eternal.
Bender! Although they would never vote him in.
"I'll go make my own Robot Hall of Fame. With Blackjack! And Hookers! In fact, forget the Hall of Fame!"
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This time, I'd vote for Al Gore and actually feel good about it.
I nominate Bender!! I don't know who created him though. Maybe Matt Groening?
I nominate Gaak, who bravely liberated himself into the parking lot.
The coolest voice ever.
If they want Hollywood ones, the list is long..
Gort (from "The Day the Earth Stood Still")
Johnny Five (from "Short Circuit")
Half the cast of "The Black Hole"
Any of the Star Wars ones...
Plus the evil one from "Saturn V",
Logan's Run,
Buck Rogers,
Battlestar Galactica
and so on...
The public will recognize those.. I doubt there are many (if any?) non-fictitious robots that the general public could name or recognize.
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Since inventors are included, I nominate Issac Asimov for his Three Laws of Robotics. Dr. Asimov is as responsible for robots as Jules Verne is for the nuclear submarine and Robert Heinlein is for the waldo.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
I vote for the Zoltar machine in the movie "BIG". He could grant wishes and stuff.....
I think this hall of fame only applies to robots in this galaxy. Not galaxies far, far away.
... but he muttered something about how he was too depressed to accept the award and *whissh whisssh*'ed away.
"Derp de derp."
Very disappointing that the paranoid android with a brain the size of a small planet has not gottena vote yet from the Douglas Adams fans
First permanently depressed robbot ever
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What truth?
There is no dupe
Karel Capek (1890-1938), a Czech playwright, novelist, and essayist. He was the author of the play RUR (1921) which contains the first known public usage of the word 'robot' in the modern context.
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Also, a nod to Mike Nelson, who maintained them when Dr. Forrester shot him up to the SOL.
From dictionary.com
Robot:
1) A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.
2) A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.
3) A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others
So which definition of robot makes it into the hall of fame?
By definition 1, many commonplace things qualify, like my PC with printer. It performs the complex task of doing my taxes.
By definition 2, even more things qualify. My toaster automatically makes toast.
By definition 3, this would be full of slashdot editors. Hardly worthy of such an honor, IMO.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I don't trust the shover robot. The pusher robot is superior to the shover robot. The pusher robot will protect us. Pushing is the answer.
The entire front exhibit of the MIT museum. For anyone in Boston who has been to the museum, they know that there are some amazing walking robots (check out the PBS shows where they do flips and things) and that robot that looks like a giant Furby face which mimics emotions based on audio and visual input.
Also, there's the robot that went to the psych meeting and hit that guy in the ankle and didn't even apologize, but delivered his own seminar on how he was created and took a quick Q and A afterwards.
Third, I nominate the Terminator. That's just one mad motivated machine...and it's back!
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
Asimov is also credited with inventing the word "robotics". At least he complained that 20 or 30 years later (he started writing his robot stories in the early 1940s) that when the word came into use by real scientists that no one gave him a byline...
Speaking of robots and CMU, if you're anywhere near Pittsburgh I highly recommend coming down to campus to see them for yourself. The Robot Soccer competition is open to the public, today through Sunday. Details here