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.

Comments

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?

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

[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:Ummm, C3PO was fictional?

[Walt Dismal]

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

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.

Dissappointed

[p0]

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