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Robot Hall of Fame 2004 Inductees Announced
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."
welcome our new robot overlords.
It would be illogical to exclude him.
Bender belongs on that list
Get it right!
The T-101 was a _CYBORG_, a cybernetic organism... not a robot!
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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...
Man, my dad just burnt me a copy of forbidden planet. After seeing it for the first time recently, I gotta agree that Robby should make this hall of fame. The robot produced, what, 60 gallons of alcohol for that alcoholic crew member? What loyalty! And the way the robot made those giant sheets of lead wobble as if they were only styrofoam set props. Brilliant.
And the robots will be voting for the Humanoid Hall of Fame
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I don't see Cher on there.
Come on guys , this is not a dupe check out the link (Its circularly linked to the same article)
I was very suprised that COG was not on either list. COG is doing more for the real advancement of robotics then any of those "celebrity" robots ever will. I mean why should we transfer the cult of personality from hollywood to the realm of robotics?
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
I'd like to nominate Mr. Coffee, possibly the world's most important robot. Millions of people couldn't get out of bed in the morning if their coffeemaker weren't up before them, getting the morning brew ready.
Have you read my blog lately?
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Marvin, the Paranoid Android.
Brain the size of the universe and I can't even get nominated. Life, don't talk to me about life.
Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Let's face it, not everyone (robots included) can sit through ten years of the cheesiest movies ever made without getting some kind of award.
It's all fun and games until someone loses the key to the handcuffs.
I think we need to admit the AlGore robot to the hall of fame. Not only was he a revolution in cybernetics, but he was almost elected president.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Agent Smith
What about Marvin ?? He should be on it. He always reminds me of so many people I actually know
No 'Robot' from Lost in Space? (I can't remember his model number.)
Also:
whatserface from Metropolis
Huey, Dewey & Louie from Silent Running
the Kung Fu robots from Ice Pirates ("I can't figure out this one's program.")
the friendly denizens of Westworld
Lots of others deserving to be included!
I didn't see any of these mentioned from the 2003 list, and I couldn't find the 'total' list, if there is one. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
Robby would be nice, yes.
But what surprises me is how they could elect Asimo without also electing R. Daneel Olivaw! Without R. Daneel, there wouldn't have been an Asimo. Well, at least not under that name.
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..but nothing from asimoV..
especially when asimov's robots had much more depth than starwars robots could ever aspire to have.. even if he made them act by pre-set logical rules(which was the whole point anyways).
I mean, christ, even terminator is more robot(_machine_) like than r2d2 or c3p0 are, r2d2 and c3p0 could be a midget and a butler without any difference in their actions(of course, the midget would have to be a slicer as well..).
in fiction making a character into a robot is most just to justify the character for being very shallow(and geek 'sexy') and to have special powers.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
And there were two different humans involved, but who cares about them?
I think Billy Mumy should be the curator. I mean, really, what else is he doing?
To invent a robot dog and name it Dogmatic.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
He lost the election that actually matters. Namely, in the electoral college.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
Shakey was the size of small refrigerator, wheeled and (in retrospect) ugly as hell. I always thought it looked like it was going to topple over. But a robot that's smart enough to manipulate its environment (move a wooden ramp into position so it could roll up a step and continue on the task you asked it to do in the first place) - ground breaking.
You can find more about shakey here.
(Yes, I did have a sad, lonely childhood. How did you guess? :)
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
What about Muffit from Battlestar Gallactica?
Wasn't he like a robotic Ewok?
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
In addition to Asimov and (at least) R. Daneel Olivaw, let's not forget the other grand master, dirty old Heinlein.
If they can vote in HAL 9000, which is a computer and not a robot, well, then Mycroft definitely deserves a place on that list.
Dr. Who's faithful robot companion.
My rights don't need management.
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew me well.
KFG
Didn't click the link, did you?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Should not we also nominate Commander Data?
It would be the human thing to do.
"Just because you're a genius doesn't make you a smart guy!" -- Narrator, Powerpuff Girls
Can I nominate president Bush into the robot hall of fame?
Once again they have forgotten the almighty pimpbot.
m pbot.html
"The man, the myth, the pimp. This is the PimpBot 5000. He combines the classic sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flare of a 1970's street pimp."
I can't believe he won't be included.
More pimpbot info at http://www.pages.drexel.edu/undergrad/st95wf3z/pi
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
The other issue of course is that while you lose your right to vote while serving a sentence, you should regain that right when your sentence expires otherwise, you are serving an eternal sentence with respect to your rights. That is the case in Florida and as I understand it, very few states actually do this.
Finally, the election was decided by the supreme court of the United States since the Florida recount was stopped prior to the date that Florida had to turn in their electoral votes. The narrow writing of the decision (that it only applies to Fla for example), pretty much gives away the partisanship behind it.
If Diebold only had their shit together back in 2000, then none of these uncomfortable facts would be out there.
Politicus
If your name is Sarah Connor, it is highly recommended that you *not* visit this museum.
Robby the Robot not only showed up in Forbidden Planet but he also put in an appearance in several other films and TV Shows. He showed up in "Lost in Space" (TV), and "Back to the Future" (Movie - in the museum).
:-)
The other robot from "Lost in Space" (TV) should also go into the museum.
Androids should probably get their own museum as they are a bit different from plain robots. My favorite to go into an Android museum would be BladeRunner's Roy.
There have been so many robots used (both good and badly designed) in movies - it is probably really hard to decide just whom should go into the hall of fame.
Vega from StarTrek-the Movie would be another good one. Only, they would have to build an entire planet to accommodate it.
Someone put a black hole in my pocket and now I'm broke.
Linguo got the shaft again.
Cyborg perhaps, but just barely. The only part of him that was organic was a thin layer of skin plus a face. Everything important with the T-101 was mechanical.
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...Nuku Nuku.She's got the brain of a cat, the behavior of a genki little High School girl, and she kicks all manner of ass. I'm sure she's a bit low on their priority list but she deserves a spot in the Robot Hall Of Fame.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Taking away felons' voting rights is one thing. Keeping it away after the sentance is up is quite another. Taking away people's voting rights because they have the same birthday or a similar name to the ex felon is quite another again. Taking away someone's right to vote on the basis that they committed a misdemeanor (like jaywalking or littering) as opposed to a felony in another state (which just happens to be Texas) is quite another again. You're not allowed to do this in Florida, but Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris' cronies did it anyway.
RTFA. Just because your so-called 'liberal media' didn't bother their heads reporting this coup d'etat doesn't mean to say that it's all baloney. This stuff is all common knowledge in Europe.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
No you can't. Florida was full of people who turned up to vote only to be told for the first time that they had been scrubbed. They were prevented from voting. Period.
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Radiohead does Stephen Hawking. Robotic in a way, but not quite.
Is that the one with the tennis-racket arms? That was bloody funny, that was.
How could they possibly forget The Transformers??! They should immediately throw out the entire list and populate it with the likes of Optimus Prime (now you don't get many people changing their names to R2D2 now, do you?), Bumblebee and Megatron! (The title is a badly formed attempt at making the noise when they transform)
However, they have to leave just one gap for No-No from Ulysses 31. And that other robot that was at the end of Battle of the Planets (the UK version).
....The Mars Exploration Rovers named Spirit and Opportunity that have tremendously expanded our knowledge of the Martian soil since their missions began at the beginning of 2004. The spectacular pictures from two MER's have opened up the very distinct possibility that life once existed on Mars extensively, and some primitive forms of life may still exist there even now.
No, I just think the study's biased.
It's good to use your head, but not as a battering ram.
At the time, this was incredibly slow, but that wasn't the real problem. The problem is that it only works for worlds composed of simple geometric objects with uniformly colored faces. Shakey's world was a room with big colored blocks, so those algorithms could work.
Total dead end.
Seems odd to me that "Robbie" and Sony's robot are included together, as if there is no difference between 1950s SciFi cheese, and real break-through technology.
Finally, the election was decided by the supreme court of the United States since the Florida recount was stopped prior to the date that Florida had to turn in their electoral votes.
You guys are really grasping at straws to validate your twisted view: The Supreme Court 'decided' nothing except time's up, and that was MONTHS after the ballots had been counted, and counted over, and over and over again. Every time Bush came up with more votes, some democrat would file another suit to consider such insanities like 'dimpeled chad' and smell the ballot and devine what the voter intended to punch. If anybody can be accused of trying to steal an election it should be the democrats for their "keep REcounting until Gore wins" tactic, while changing the criteria for what constitutes a "Gore" vote every time, "Darn, Bush won again. Well, we want a recount, except this time look for all the ballots that were all democrat except for the president, that clearly means they really intended to vote for Gore but pushed the wrong button, yeah, that's it".
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Gah, he's a media wag pandering to a certain mindset constituency for fame & fortune, investigating truth has nothing to do with it. As I pointed out - read my F'ing post - what he wrote about Fl. being the only state that that takes away felons voting rights due to some 'old deep south' (thereby implying vestiges of confederate racist you see) is plain WRONG WRONG WRONG. Check the link I posted that lists every states laws and check the facts. Do you own research. Simply quoting some journalist who just bangs out what you want to hear proves nothing.
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