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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!
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
....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.