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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!

    1. Re:1 vote for Hero 2000 by websaber · · Score: 5, Funny

      you'll know that robots have come of age when self nominations become banned.

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  2. I Nominate The Turk by rhfrommn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  3. I nominate... by blackmonday · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  4. I Nominate... by immanis · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  5. Robot Nominees by SanLouBlues · · Score: 5, Funny

    This time, I'd vote for Al Gore and actually feel good about it.

  6. Gaak! by Faust7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I nominate Gaak, who bravely liberated himself into the parking lot.

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