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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. What about the Asimo? by ActionPlant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seriously, Honda's Asimo needs to be on this list. Unless I missed it, of course.

    http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/

    And how could we forget the Rhoomba vacuum? Both robots of our time that are paving the way for things to come. Obvious choices, maybe, but necessary choices nonetheless.

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    1. Re:What about the Asimo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I think it's obvious this is about popularity and not the ability of the robot to actually do anything...much like presidential elections in a way.

  2. what about.. by laurent420 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    lieutenant commander data?

  3. My nomination by Evil+Adrian · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Vicky from Small Wonder.

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  4. Hey, anyone ever seen Metropolis? by prolix2012 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm a little suprised that the robot from Lang's Metropolis didn't get a nod, guess that whole "introduced the term 'robot into the lexicon" thing just doesn't go as far as it used to.

  5. Forbidden Planet Robot and Lost in Space robot ! by zymano · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Favorite Movie robots.

    Robby the robot.

    Lost in Space robot

    Don't any of you say the MUFFIT from Battle Star Galactica !!! Geeeeeezuz.

    Twiki from Buck Rogers ......"Buck , Get down...bity .bity."

    The funkiest robot. The woman in that show....big crush !

  6. Asimo by Saeger · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I was going to nominate Asimo, but their FormMail script seems to be broken ATM.

    Asimo is one of the first bipedal walking robots that really scared the crap out of a lot of people. How many generations of advancing tech before their bodies and AI are up to snuff for jobs like: construction work, plumbing, McJob customer service, worldcup soccer, sucky-fucky, ... world domination? :)

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  7. What definition of robot are they using? by breser · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They inducted HAL 9000 which doesn't really seem like much of a robot to me. I mean I guess it can control the functions of the ship. I just never really thought of HAL as a robot.

  8. What about Rosie? by ekmo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As long as fictional robots are being inducted, I'd like to nominate Rosie, the maid from the Jetsons.

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  9. Re:I got a nominee... by jayrtfm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    actually, a Kawasaki factory robot deserves that dishonor.
    In 1981 it killed its operator, Kenji Urada.