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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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. The most famous robots of all by Hi_2k · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everybody knows them: The microsoft marketing people!

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  3. k9? by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Funny

    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?

  4. 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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  5. Hope they fix the nomination page... by jejones · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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

    lieutenant commander data?

  7. 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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  8. I got a nominee... by meta-monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:I got a nominee... by Oscar_Wilde · · Score: 4, Funny

      The big robot didn't murder the small one, you've got it all wrong. The charging station was liberated!

    2. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. I talked to Bender about that he said by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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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  13. The REAL robot hall of fame by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.