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CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame

Posted by timothy on from the where's-darl? dept.

CMU_Nort writes "Carnegie Mellon University has just unveiled the Robot Hall of Fame. Along with that announcement, MSNBC has an article about the first honorary inductees, including R2D2 and Mars Pathfinder. You also have the chance to nominate other robots."

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  1. This guy needs to be inducted... by rolocroz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Marvin the Paranoid Android. Brain the size of a planet...

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  2. Maria by geekoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maria is from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. 1927. Perhaps the first robot ever put on film.

    http://www.jeffbots.com/maria.html

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  3. R2D2? by toupsie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't R2D2 be considered a puppet more than a robot?

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  4. Don't tell me they weren't really robots: by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo, Crow

    That's like telling young children there's no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or Tooth Fairy, yet the monsters under the bed are still going to get them, all at the same time.

  5. Re:What definition of robot are they using? by geekoid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    HAL is the Brain that controls the ship functions. Automating things for the crew. performing labor. hence Robot.

    Is someone with only one arm less human?

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  6. Re:what about.. by Galvatron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't there some bit where he denies being a robot, calling himself an android instead? Anyway, Data being an android was just the excuse to slip a Spock-alike into TNG. Not that I'm complaining, I liked the show, and I liked the character, but Data has no more to do with robotics than I. R2D2 felt more like a tool, was mass produced in the fictional universe (unlike Data, who had a very bizarre origin story, and an "evil twin"), and was generally more believable, I think.

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  7. Robby the Robot will always be tops! by GeneralEmergency · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Robby the Robot from the 1956 classic 'Forbidden Planet' for no other reason than this line:

    "Pardon me. I was giving myself an oil-job."

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