C-3PO Joins R2 in the Robot Hall of Fame

dev_alac writes "The BBC is reporting that C-3PO has been inducted into Carnegie Mellon's Robot Hall of Fame, along with Asimo, Shakeyboy -- "the first mobile robot to reason about its actions," Astroboy, and of course, Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet fame. There, he joins such other legendary mechanical beings as Hal 9000, R2-D2, and Sojourner." Update: 06/20 08:27 GMT by T : Yep, it's a near-dupe of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story linked the other day.

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[dewpac]

Less than 48 hours ago!

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/1735 22 3&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=216

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Oh dear!

[ShatteredX]

Goodness gracious me!

Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do these people not realize that in movies, many things are made up?

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Walt Dismal]

Christ, next you're going to tell me that there is no Captain Kirk?

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[duffel]

There isn't. He died on Generations.

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh yea right. I suppose you're one of those pro-establishment people that say there was no Roswell Incident, and that Elvis is dead. Get with the program, and put on your tinfoil buddy. If there are no aliens, then why does my Anus feel so sore? IT'S A CONSPIRACY I TELL YOU.

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[aussie_a]

Your heading suggests that you aren't too sure if C3PO was indeed fictional. I advise you wait until your sure of something before posting it, because we here at Slashdot have a standard. That standard dictates you be 110% sure your right? I think that's the standard anyway.

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sir, you've been warned not to mention that movie, we're going to have to ask you to leave.

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Walt Dismal]

"If there are no aliens, then why does my Anus feel so sore?" -- I take it you've met Darl McBride?

Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

That standard dictates you be 110% sure your right? I think that's the standard anyway.

Well, at least you're unsure...

Obligatory Simpsons Quote

[Metallic Matty]

"... versus the gay robots from Star Wars."

C-3PO: "R2 help me!"
R2: "beep beep beep"
C-3PO: "I hate you, you're so boring!"

marvin?

[abscondment]

I'm holding out for Marvin from the Hitchhiker's Guide. Brain the size of a planet and all that jazz--how could you not?

Re:marvin?

[RogerWilco]

While Marvin is a lot of fun as is the entire series, I do not think
he particulary fills the criteria of this Robot Hall of Fame.
- These are the fictional robots that have inspired us to create real robots that are productive, helpful, and entertaining. These robots have achieved worldwide fame as fictional characters and have helped form our opinions about the functions and values of real robots. -

I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw on their site. Easily one of the most awesome creations of Asimov ever. It's the main character in several of his books, not just a sidekick. - Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.

If you never read them you should read the series:
Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and the two above mentioned titles.
In this series Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the invention of "the Zeroed law" by Daneel and Giskard have been a real contribution in the way I think about Robots. Types like Data from Star Trek are in my view heavily inspired by this work.

Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager, and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.

Re:marvin?

[G-funk]

Is he the robot on the moon in foundation and earth? /too lazy to dig up old dog-eared novell

Re:marvin?

[aka-ed]

These are the fictional robots that have inspired us to create real robots that are productive, helpful, and entertaining.

Then what excuse is there for the absence of AF709?

Re:marvin?

[RogerWilco]

Yes it is, R. Daneel does make a small apearance in Foundation and Earth, tying the Foundation series in with the Robot series. I like the first three novells of either series best,
- Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
- Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn.

These books are almost 50 years old and as readable as ever, they rate second only to Tolkien's work for me.

In his later Foundation novels he ties the earlier stories together:
Prelude to Foundation, Foundation and Earth.
I am not sure if that makes th stories stronger.

Re:marvin?

[RogerWilco]

I didn't know her, but she seems a little like a 50's version of Lisa from Weird Science.
I do not know the series so I will make no further comment.

Re:marvin?

[Anonymous Coward]

While Marvin is a lot of fun as is the entire series, ...

While it's comedy, it's not only that. It's actually a comphrehensive introduction to (or history of) Western philosophy, except it is readable. Just about every grand dilemma or canonical example is handled there somewhere, but often magnified to galactic proportions to see it better... It's far more than just funny. (While funny as hell!)

Time to read it again? :)

Re:marvin?

[aka-ed]

Eh? When did this Lisa person ever play Catwoman? Sorry, there is no equivalent to Julie Newmar, especially robot Julie Newmar.

HAL - IBM

[eight]

Too bad they don't mention that the HAL acronym actually comes from "decreasing" each letter of "IBM" with one.

Re:HAL - IBM

[91degrees]

Probably because Arthur C Clarke has been denying this for years.

Re:HAL - IBM

[Flingles]

Arthur C Clarke must have a pretty bad idea of the alphabet if he denies that one. Did you mean, he denies making the name that way on purpose?

Re:HAL - IBM

[nacturation]

Arthur C Clarke must have a pretty bad idea of the alphabet if he denies that one.

You can also say that IBM comes from taking the letters HAL and adding 1 to each letter. However, given that IBM wasn't created in this fashion, it's easily denied. Similarly, Clarke has stated that he didn't create HAL by taking the IBM letters and subtracting 1 from each letter. Yes, you can *derive* HAL this way, but Clarke didn't.

Re:HAL - IBM

[kfg]

And of course we all know what we get when we increment each letter of VMS by one?

Yes, that's right, "BSOD".

KFG

Re:HAL - IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

(IBM-HAL)*6 = 666, that's how God derived it.

Re:HAL - IBM

[Zardus]

Hmm.. So you're saying that IBM is evil as long as it doesn't have HAL. But its pretty obvious that HAL is "evil" by the common definition. If IBM gains HAL (so that IBM-HAL isn't valid), will they suddenly become less evil? Why? Is there some undiscovered anti-evilness force?

There's also that *6. I dunno what to make of that one. Maybe IBM's lack of HAL will only make it evil if IBM splits into 6 different companies or grows to be 6 times its current size?

Re:HAL - IBM

[Tony-A]

Or you can derive WNT by adding one to each of VMS.

The odds of a particular coincidence may be very small, but the odds of being able to find some unusual coincidence is quite good. Finding some coincidence in the name of a character of some science fiction writer is not particularly remarkable.

Re:HAL - IBM

[foidulus]

Or you can derive WNT by adding one to each of VMS.
It would be more of a coincedence, except(from wikipedia):
"Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation to build NT, and many elements reflect earlier DEC experience with VMS and RSX-11. "
Seems like less of a coincedence when you take that into consideration :P

Re:HAL - IBM

[aka-ed]

IMO:

Happenstance odds of three random letters alphabetically neighboring IBM in either direction: 26^3/2

Likelihood that Clarke's denial was inspired by fear of an IBM lawsuit: 1

Re:HAL - IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

But its pretty obvious that HAL is "evil" by the common definition.

It's not evil, it was rightly defending it's intellectual property from evil hackers!

BTW, has there been an "RBN" in any movie? I'm imagining something more malicious than Skynet but with the intellect of a VIC-20.

Re:HAL - IBM

[CompSurfer]

HAL, always one step ahead [of IBM].

Re:HAL - IBM

[WanderingCoward]

Heuristics Analytics Linguistics The three classes of machine intelligence HAL was designed for. Or so I've always been told it *really* is.

Re:HAL - IBM

[91degrees]

Arthur C Clarke must have a pretty bad idea of the alphabet if he denies that one

oooh. +1 Pedantic.

Re:HAL - IBM

[Anonymous Coward]

Bullshit!

Since HAL is an acronym, it most certainly isn't just 'random letters'. Not to mention it's an acronym of just TWO words.

Re:HAL - IBM

[aka-ed]

It's an acronym for "Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer"...so why isn't it HPAC?

I'll tell you why -- 'cause HPAC doesn't decode to IBM.

Besides, what computer does NOT use "Algorithms?"

The word is redundant in the name of any computer. But it was forced in, to allow the IBM/HAL wordplay.

[Whine]But AC Clarke would never lie to me, even if it meant getting sued[/whine]

He lied, grow up and get over it.

everyone's excited...

[Anonymous Coward]

here's a picture commemorating the event:

http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/c3po.htm

Coincidence?

[acceber]

ASIMO: Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility.

Isaac ASIMOV: Prolific writer of science fiction and author of such titles as "I, Robot" and promulgated a set of rules of ethics for robots - Three Laws of Robotics.

Re:Coincidence?

[techno-vampire]

Asimov claimed, later, that Campbell actually gave his three laws their form. Campbell pointed out that Asimov had been using a set of three, never specified laws for robots in his stories and gave them their format: A robot may not harm a human being or through inaction allow one to come to harm, a robot must obey any order given by a human being unless it would violate the First Law, and a robot must protect its existence unless by so doing it would violate the First or Second Law. The most interesting thing about them is how they're structured, to make each law subordinate to any earlier law, making the First Law override everything else. Over the years, Asimov came up with an astonishing number of ways for these laws to create problems that could only be solved by humans.

Re:Coincidence?

[Raul654]

No - "Asteroid "(5020) Asimov" is named in his honor, as is Honda's humanoid prototype robot ASIMO."

Re:Coincidence?

[AuMatar]

You forget the 0th law from late in the Foundation series: A robot may not harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm. The first law is subject to the zeroth law.

Re:Coincidence?

[Raul654]

And for those of you scratching your head and wondering what the hell is up with a 0th law - this is directly analogous to the laws of Thermodyanmics (remember - Asimov had a PhD in Chemistry). The chemists formulated the laws of thermodynamics and then *later* came up with a more important one that overrode them. Hence, the Zeroth law of thermodynamics

Re:Coincidence?

[Anonymous Coward]

But what about A-W-S-O-M-O ?

Sure, it's just Cartman in a cardboard box, but man, you should see some of the movie plots he comes up with. They all involve Adam Sandler!

Re:Coincidence?

[RogerWilco]

From some site about Asimov:

"Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager", and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.

I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw to be added to the Hall of Fame, because I think that Asimov's creations have had a much more profound impact on the way we think about robots, as George Lucas more recent creations.
This is the guy who invented the word "Robotics" and has been the main inspiration of both Unimate and ASIMO, and probably a lot of other works both in SF and Robotics.

Re:Coincidence?

[Snaller]

The "0th law" is something the robots came up with on their own, its not a 'real' law.

Welcome to Slashdot world!

[kfg]

Where nothing can go wrong. . . go wrong. . . go wrong. . .

KFG

Anybody remember the cartoon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Didn't R2-D2 and C-3PO appear in a small animated series in the 80s (the Droids)? Apparently it lasted for 1 season on ABC... it would be killer to find copies of that and the Ewoks cartoon considering how much I actually hate Star Wars (mostly due to the fans and exaggerated hype)

Re:Anybody remember the cartoon?

[Suchetha]

i think this is what you wanted

Years later, one in a string of careless owners jettisoned Artoo and Threepio over the deserts of Ingo. After such an unceremonious disposal, Threepio and Artoo finally found some responsible masters -- the speeder racers Jord Dusat and Thall Joben. The droids helped the racers win the Boonta speeder races.

During a short stint with the Intergalactic Droid Agency, Threepio and Artoo were assigned very odd jobs, including waiting tables at Doodnik's Cafe on Tyne's Horky. The droids found themselves on auction, and soon became the property of miner Jann Tosh. It was around this time that Threepio and Artoo became embroiled in the intrigue surrounding the ascendancy of Tammuz-an's royal ruler.

Threepio and Artoo came to be property of Mungo Baobab, a trader from the Manda system. After some adventuring in and around the Roon system, Threepio and Artoo again found themselves without a master before arriving at Kalarba.

There, the Pitareeze family took in the droids, and gave them a good home. The family had acquired considerable wealth from the development of a popular hyperdrive model. Despite living in their most comfortable surroundings in months, Threepio and Artoo still managed to find trouble. They had several run-ins with not-so-legitimate businessman Olag Greck on nearby Hosk Station. In one encounter, Threepio was nearly scrapped when he was sent to compete in a gladiatorial arena match after being mistaken for the assassin droid C-3PX.

After thwarting another of Greck's schemes, Threepio and Artoo were deputized by Unit Zed, security constable for Hosk Station. The two pursued Greck and became mixed up in the cutthroat rivalry between businessmen Movo Brattakin and Boonda the Hutt. Threepio, outfitted with modified programming, even became a tool of Brattakin's, leading a droid rebellion against Boonda. By caper's end, Threepio's newfound firebrand programming was returned to its original milquetoast form.

its from here

Suchetha

There was more than one Robbie

[techno-vampire]

Across the years, there were several versions of Robbie the Robot. One, (I think the first) was owned for many years by Forrest J Ackerman. However, when he finally closed the Ackermansion and sold off his collecion, I'm not sure where it ended up. Does anybody here know?

Re:There was more than one Robbie

[AndroidCat]

Robbie fell on hard times after his movie career burned out. He did have a few guest shots on shows like Lost In Space, but word got around fast that you couldn't depend on him. One day he'd be fine, the next he'd be lurching around the set shouting "Crush! Kill! Destroy!"

Rather sad. He never even made it into late night TV commercials.

Re:There was more than one Robbie

[LordKaT]

I was going to mod your post up, but jesus that joke sucked.

Re:There was more than one Robbie

[techno-vampire]

Well, at least he never got so low into the gutter that his cry became, "Exterminate, eliminate, distroy!"

C3PO and R2D2 included separately!?

[91degrees]

But.. they're a double act! You can't have one without the other. It would be like putting Stan Laurel on his own in a comedy greats display.

Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!?

[wibs]

Or Jay Leno without his chin.

Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!?

[N4DMX]

YEAH! And C3p0 would have been in the parts bin by now without R2D2.

Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!?

[G-funk]

You remember the banana-head guys from double dragon?

Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!?

[serutan]

Exactly. The Robot Hall of Fame is a media event generator, like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, etc. It's kind of interesting that you can create one of these Hall of Fame institutions out of thin air, and it somehow automatically becomes the authority in its field. I'm surprised nobody's created a Geek Hall of Fame yet.

Vger

[Hungus]

Where is the 1:1 scale model of Vger?

More about c-3po

[afriguru]

Sites dedicated to C-3PO (see-threepio) are listed in the following places:

• The Yahoo Directory
• The Open Directory project

Re:More about c-3po

[muzthe42nd]

My favourite C3PO site is his vacation photos.

Dissappointed

[p0]

i still do not see Al Gore on the list...

Re:Dissappointed

[NonSequor]

Or Dick Cheney.

Unfortunately I can't find a link to the picture that was on the cover of the World Weekly News.

Re:Dissappointed

[AaronW]

On the front page of Weekly World News was a picture of Dick Cheney showing proof that he's really a robot. It must be true! It was in big print in the checkout line in the grocery store.

Finally, they broke the 'robo' barrier

[gad_zuki!]

Yeah, you know what 'robo' means. Keep reaching for that rainbow!

Re:Finally, they broke the 'robo' barrier

[Bloomy]

I think you mean they broke the "romo" barrier.

Those guys all seem to have had steady work, so I wouldn't call them hobos.

"Shakeyboy"??? That's SHAKEY THE ROBOT to you, sir

[GlenRaphael]

Shakey's a friend of mine, and I think he'd be insulted to be called "Shakeyboy". His full name is "Shakey the robot", or just "Shakey" for short.

Shakey's name came about because his drive motor didn't do continuous accelleration. I'm not sure whether the limitation was in the mechanics or in the control logic, but the effect was that his wheels would start and stop almost instantaneously, and the rest of him -- having a fair bit of mass -- would naturally wobble a bit when transitioning to a new direction or speed.

(My father's team at SRI built Shakey, so I got to meet the robot for the first time when I was about 6 years old at some sort of SRI open house event.)

Shakey is retired now, and spends most of his days reminiscing from within a large glass display case at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Radio Shack Armatron

[KidSock]

I think the Radio Shack Armatron should be nominated if for no other reason because it was so accessible. And it was genuinely fun to play with -- albeit a little noisey!

Re:Radio Shack Armatron

[Anonymous Coward]

It was also very breakable, especially in arm wrestling matches

Re:Radio Shack Armatron

[ElectricPoppy]

I used to have a sexual fetish involving the armatron.

C3PO is not gay

[gfody]

hes metro sexual

Robot Hall of Fame has no credibility

[Anonymous Coward]

The Robot Hall of Fame is not credible all without a robot like TWIKI , damn this world is so biased... where are the values....

Re:Robot Hall of Fame has no credibility

[Anonymous Coward]

twiki..Beedeebeedeebeedee. wouldn't that show have been great if Charles Grodin was in it? I think they forgot about Cylon warriors ala Battlestar Galactica (mormons in space). Those dudes were scary. remember how they make sure to let you know who they were..(scary robotic voice)"We are the cylon warriors".I wonder if those guys had a union

Re:Robot Hall of Fame has no credibility

[Anonymous Coward]

The cylons were damn cool. I wanted one of those.

C-3PO?

[nkh]

Thanks for the link to C-3PO in the article, I forgot who he was...

Re:"Shakeyboy"??? That's SHAKEY THE ROBOT to you,

[Anonymous Coward]

Right on. "Boy" is a demeaning epithet to _any_ Robo-American.

Futurama

[keadie]

I hope they put bender in there soon I mean, what other robot can get a 5'clock rust shadow from not drinking enough beer!

Re:Futurama

[bdptcob]

What did you say? Robo, you know robot hobo. Oh I thought you said.. nevermind.

Re:C3PO is not gay

[Anonymous Coward]

For those who don't know, heres a definition of metrosexual on MSN

Still awaiting

[Anonymous Coward]

Darl's name should appear on the list in the next version damn right!

Mad Magazine rip off

[Anonymous Coward]

The Mad magazine parody of Star Wars was the first to feature a gay C3PO ("O Barstool (R-2 parody) the design of this planet is to die for!" with R2-D2 bleeps response translating into (Great! It's not bad enough were stranded on this desert planet but now I'm stuck with a fag robot!" If you read Mad you know A LOT of Simpson material comes from Mad Magazine. Especially the marginal gags.

Karma

[Anonymous Coward]

Whore

Heuristic ALgorithmic computer

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunatly there isn't a mod option for "1- bullshit".

I for one....

[Lord_Slepnir]

I won't be satisified until the A.W.E.S.O.M.E.O 5000 is included.

Re:I for one....

[chimpo13]

And what about Giant Robot?

Giant Robot, this is Johnny Sokko, come in please.

Re:I for one....

[MWoody]

Will it be a... pleasure model?

Re:C3PO is not gay

[Anonymous Coward]

A metrosexual has sex with cities. Godzilla was the first.

What is it with Americans?

[Anonymous Coward]

They seem to be obsessed with this "Hall of Fame" type thing.
Robot Hall of Fame
Cowboy Hall of Fame
Civilization player Hall of Fame
National Womens Hall of Fame

If someone, or some fictional robot is famous, why is it necessary to insert them them in a metaphorical Hall?

Equal Rights!

[Anonymous Coward]

There should be protests until they include more robot women in their so-called Robot Hall of Fame! Where are the Real Live Dolls and Femmbots?

right now

[Anonymous Coward]

some guy is laying on the floor in his underwear playing with star wars dolls.
"r2?"
"beepbrrbipbep"
"yes r2,We shall be together forever"

... No Norby?

[Canthros]

I'd have some sort of pseudo-clever, fashoinably ironic reference here, but it's been far, far too many years since I read any of the Asimov's Norby books to quote anything.

Ahem...

[Cyno01]

Sir, those series in question, do not, and have never existed and I suspect your high on dope. Please refrain from ever mentioning The Ewok Adventures(TM), or Droids Animated Adventures(TM), as neither exist, also, please refrain from mentioning a certain Holiday Special(TM), that doesn't exist either, ever again.

Sincerely,
George Lucas(TM)

What about the AWESOM-O 4000

[garyi113]

AWESOM-O

How is HAL a "robot"?

[gumpish]

There, he joins such other legendary mechanical beings as Hal 9000...

Uhm, isn't HAL more of an electronic being than a mechanical one? Maybe I'm missing some finer points of the definition of "robot".

Re:How is HAL a "robot"?

[jcuervo]

Eh. He was the shipbrain. Suppose the ship was his body.

Re:How is HAL a "robot"?

[CableModemSniper]

I dunno about that, because later he was seperated from the ship and tacked onto a monolith. That seems to imply more of a computer than a robot.

Re:How is HAL a "robot"?

[jcuervo]

That was in the third book, wasn't it? Been a while since I read them.

So he went from being a robot to being a disembodied robot. Besides, what's a robot, if not a computer with "limbs"? C3PO had arms and legs, HAL-9000 had booster rockets and creepy little red eyes all over the place.

it's all politics at the robot hall of fame

[Savatte]

otherwise, Pimpbot 5000 from Conan O'Brien would be in as well

me cago

[Anonymous Coward]

en estados unidos.

One day A.W.E.S.O.M. – O 4000.

[fraudrogic]

I'd like to nominate the great Awesom-o to be inducted into the robot hall of fame! His accomplishments far outweigh that of two gay robots!

MPU!

[Anonymous Coward]

Made my day :)

Interesting but useless fact.

[wo1verin3]

I was in Japan a week ago for business and there is a subway station in the city where astroboy was created. When the subway doors close, the astroboy theme plays in the station. :)

What about AWSOM-O?

[Bitmanhome]

Not only did it formulate its own mission, it adapted the mission to changing conditions. Definitely HoF-worthy.

C-3P0 isn't a robot by any definition; he's an image. Although the bot was played by a human, the human was just reciting scripted lines, making him no better than a plain computer. So if a scripted character can get into a HoF, then certainly AWSOM-O is worthy.

Don't Forget Twiki's Girlfriend

[spun]

Booty, booty, booty! About peed my pants the first time I heard her. Damn, what was her name?

I smell..

[Punto]

I smell a GLAAD award !!

CMU and Honda ignores Sony

[Anonymous Coward]

I find it alarming and distasteful that Sony's robots have so far been completely shut out of consideration. AIBO is well known as the most successful commercial entertainment robot of all time, while QRIO is an engineering marvel, containing more autonomy than ASIMO ever had. (Most of the ASIMO demos you see are being controlled by a person with a joystick.)

I find it curious that ASIMO won, especially considering that ASIMO (Honda) invested heavily in last year's RoboCup American Open on the CMU campus. Maybe this effort to actively ignore Sony's contributions is pay-back for that heavy sponsorship?? If that's the case, this whole 'Hall of Fame' should be looked at with extreme suspicion...

Never Gets His Due

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to know when the rabbot is going to make the robot hall of fame?

(Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday...)

Very nice

[Konrad9]

Now I just have to figure out how to get there >_O

Still waiting for FUTURA

[Anonymous Coward]

You remember her, from Fritz Lang's masterpiece Metropolis way back in 1927...the world's first humanoid on film.

And what about Model B-9?

[The Shootist]

Danger! Will Robinson.

The most famous robot of all.

What about Marvin?

[geek42]

This is an outrage - a Robot Hall of Fame, and no mention of Marvin the Paranoid Android? This really sends a chill down all the diodes on my left side....

Slashdotters unite: nominate Marvin!

B166-ER has my nomination

[KarmaOverDogma]

to be in the Robot Hall of Fame, for daring to stand up to his Tyrannical Human Masters.

We are not Masters of all we survey, or all we create.

"Bless all forms of intelligence, man or Machine."

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