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Robot Hall of Fame 2004 Inductees Announced

Posted by michael on from the take-me-to-your-leader dept.

generic-man writes "According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie Mellon University has announced this year's inductees for the Robot Hall of Fame. On October 11, the Hall welcomes Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, Astroboy, C3PO, Honda's ASIMO, and a 'pioneering mobile robot called Shakey.' They join R2D2. the Mars Pathfinder rover, and other robots from the class of 2003."

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  1. I for one.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    welcome our new robot overlords.

  2. I nominate by Unnngh! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, nominate Darl McBride, everyone's favorite FUD-slinging robot! The openserver platform he's running on seems a bit buggy however--some of the outputs make no sense...