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CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame
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."
Robot Name: Darl McBride
Robot Link: Darl McBride
Reason:Darl McBride should be considered for induction to the Robot Hall of Fame for his wonderful example of autonomous operation in the face of outstanding obstacles. If placed in the same position, any lesser robot would seg fault and dump core, but not Darl. He fearlessly plugs away at his thankless job, pressing the PR button. Hopefully, the twillight of solid-state death will not come to this robot too soon, and when it does, may it come suddenly, like a fast-burning fuse popping. Until such time, let's raise our soldiering irons to this icon -nay, this paragon of robotic execution that is Darl Mc Bride and immortalize him in the Robot Hall of Fame.
Thank you.
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Everybody knows them: The microsoft marketing people!
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What about K9 from Dr. Who? That put a rolling trashcan that beeps into the hall of fame, but they don't put in K9?
Why? Did Lukas donate some money to there school at somepoint?
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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When you try to nominate a robot, you get a "Bad/No Recipient" error page.
In any case--once it's up, IMHO Nilsson's robot "Shakey" deserves nomination.
lieutenant commander data?
Marvin the Paranoid Android. Brain the size of a planet...
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Vicky from Small Wonder.
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You also have the chance to nominate other robots.
What about Dick Clark? Can you explain why that guy doesn't age after over a century of "A Dick Clark Rockin' New Years Bash"?
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I used to work at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Florida. Back the mid '90s we developed a couple of robots that would wander around, avoiding walls and the like, and when their battery power got low, they would seek out a charging station we set up. Well, one of the robots had stronger motors on its wheels than the other. The smaller robot was on the charger, but the bigger robot pushed it off because it needed to charge. The smaller robot was too puny to retaliate, and its batteries ran out. This may well be the first documented case of robot murder. I nominate Grazer, the bigger robot, for induction as the first ever robot murderer!
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
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.
Favorite Movie robots.
......"Buck , Get down...bity .bity."
Robby the robot.
Lost in Space robot
Don't any of you say the MUFFIT from Battle Star Galactica !!! Geeeeeezuz.
Twiki from Buck Rogers
The funkiest robot. The woman in that show....big crush !
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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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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Wouldn't R2D2 be considered a puppet more than a robot?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
The Heathkit Hero 2000 cost as much as a Yugo, but available with an optional arm and wireless terminal, it got a lot of students into robots. I remember writing a simple wall-following algorithm that ran on real hardware -- a lot more complexity than with Karel The Robot.
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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.
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.
As long as fictional robots are being inducted, I'd like to nominate Rosie, the maid from the Jetsons.
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"I'm going to start my own Hall of Fame. With Hookers and Booze....forget the hall of fame."
then he blew smoke in my face and said "CMU can Bite my shiney metal ass! loosers."
I would go after him, but I seemed to have lost my wallet.
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...Muffit. But only because you twisted my arm into doing so.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
ILM did an awesome job with his animitronics.
"Derp de derp."
Here's the real robot hall of fame, the Computer History Museum's robot collection. Many of the famous ones are there, including the Hopkins Beast and Shakey. They used to be on public display in Boston, but now they're in Mountain View, California. The Computer History Museum now has a new building, and is gradually setting up exhibits. Tours are available.
I nominate Al Gore, the robot that invented the internet!! Everyone thinks he dropped out of public life, but he's just resting until it's time to reemerge....as Skynet!!
--If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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