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2004 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
lucabrasi999 writes "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story today on the 2004 inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda). Well, at least Robby the Robot finally made it in. Now I can sleep easy at night."
My nominee would have been Dick Cheney. Too late though!
I nominate Bill Gates. Dude ain't right, you know? Gotta be a robot.
*hasn't R'edTFA yet*
Johnny-5 better be on there. The Short Circuit series was the shit.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda)
If that was the highlight how many people bludgeoned themselves to death to escape the boredom? Jeez I bet even a few of the robots self terminated if that was as good as it got.
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That's a lot of people--er, robots.
I wish Bender had been nominated.
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The voters can kiss his shiny metal ass, he definitely should have made it in.
Is HAL even a robot? I though he/it was a computer.
I'll be pissed of Tweakie (TWKE-4) makes it in before Bender.
He invented robots, you know? /and probably is one - one incredibly angry robot
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This reads a lot like:
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More like George Bush. Now the truth can finally be told: that debate hump was a WiFi antenna!
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Where is the Hall of Shame at? So I can nominate Nintendo's ROB (Robotic Operated Buddy). :)
Photo of Rob, innocent at play
Josh
I wonder if Will Smith was prevented from attending?
The idea that they would have C3P0 without first inducting Maria, who C3P0 is derivative of, shows a poor acknowledgment of the foundation laid for the future by Fritz Lang.
Check out: http://www.jeffbots.com/maria.html
this is just part of a BIG event for CMU, the Robotics Institute's 25th.
Look here for semi-live blogging of tomorrows talks.
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the companies that use them as window dressing "research" for PR purposes. The "robots from science" category might be legit. A glaring omission is a category like "robots from industry". Welders, spray painters and lab technicians who prepare DNA samples for sequencing engines may lament their lost jobs but few people have any idea how much their Ford or Chevy would cost or how many more decades it would have taken to crack the human genome without those least spectacular and dumbest of automatons. Except that I assume the hall of fame sponsors have hopes of keeping public interest in robotics from going all the way to zero, I think its kinda phony.
SLASHDOT: news for people who can't concentrate on work or have no life at all and got tired of yelling back at the TV.
How about some diversity?
I would have picked R2 over 3PO. I mean, he is the man in the relationship.
"Yeah, a shrink ray! Just like that time on Muppet Babies!"
So true. When the average person thinks of robots they think of Robbie (not even a real robot) like bots. But most real robots bear no resemblance at all to the human form. Think of, for example, modern automotive manufacturing, or appliances such as electronic equipment. Almost completely built by robots.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
You want the actor Robby, not one of his movies.
Lars T.
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I call shenanigans!
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huh
Fictional robot off a video game count?
Or how about the t-2000 terminator series?
Maybe they don't want bleak outlooks
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Clean-up of the induction ceremony provided by Roomba....
"Just because you're a genius doesn't make you a smart guy!" -- Narrator, Powerpuff Girls
that oversized dildo-looking Twiki from the Buck Rogers tv series?
--- Asking inconvenient questions for over 30 years...
Funny how Honda named it ASIMO, it always reminds me of robots invented by Asimov.
And what are the rules on sentient computers and androids? I smell a whiff of anti-androidism.
No Bender, No Hall of Fame!!!
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> Well, at least Robby the Robot finally made it in. Now I can sleep easy at night. ... Alone in your parents' basement, hugging robby the robot instead of some hot blonde. How familiar ;)
- Arwen, I'm your father, Agent Smith.
- Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
What about Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot? Further dissing of MST3K.
--Reverend Raven
Desperate days demand dire deeds.
Goby: Robot, get me a pepsi.
Smoketron 3000: (in Robotic Voice) Okay... wait, what?
Goby: I said Robot, get me a pepsi!
Smoketron 3000: Oh I got it now... wait, what?
Smoketron 3000: Dudes I'm cashed can one of you smoke me out.
Skyler: I got a little.
Smoketron 3000: Awesome, wait are you a cop?
Skyler: Noooo.
Smoketron 3000: Cause' legally you have to tell me if you are.
Skyler: I'm not a cop dude.
Smoketron 3000: There's no way I'm going back to jail. I ain't nobody's bitch.
Smoketron 3000: Dude check this out this will freak your beans, what if I'm the human and you are the robot.
When I first read that I thought they were talking about the little NES robot. What a pity.
the tit man from wizard of oz? he had to be a robot!
fictional characters can be from books right?
The Hall of fame seems to completely disregard Dr Who and English sci-fi in general. No Cybermen, no K-9, no Daleks (semi-organics), no Tim from the Tomorrow People. .. and where's R. Daneel? If the longest ever running sci-fi television show, and the proposer of the positronic brain and the three laws of robotics can't get in the door, then the Bat computer will probably win it next year.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
jesus.. i think most of you can agree that you feel its quite lame for there to be "fake" or hollywood robots to be in the hall of fame.. yea they may have been cool characters, there's no doubt in my mind about that.. but what about the people that dedicate their lives to robotics? there's much more than ASIMO out there..
- Hi I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Lih-nix..
What about Bender?
I swear they just did the exact same thing like a year ago.
I have little to say, but even less to lose by saying it.
my Robosapien didn't get it. At only $99- it is quite a bargain.
It was essentially a robot, since it had actuators that could push people into space etc.
"Is HAL even a robot? I though he/it was a computer."
If a stationary computer can take out a human, it deserves to be field promoted to 'robot'.
"Derp de derp."
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana
Toy version
I'd nominate him if I could, now that's a robot that knows how to live.
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A man writing an opera about a woman? Oh sera, how deliciously absurd!
Well, let's get off our shiny metal asses and nominate him.
... Oh, I mean for Robot hall of fame.
BENDER FOR PRESIDENT.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)
It's Torvalds not Torvald.
Geez other languages don't use a leading s for pluralization - the singular form of Torvalds is STILL Torvalds.
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candidates unmentioned (as seen by reading up).
Some less obvious ones:
The star-trek computer (Well they added HAL)
Jane from the Ender series (She's so much more than a computer afterall)
The entire cast of Ghost in the Shell.
And if that goes, well heck what about Agent Smith ?
Does frankensteins monster count (After all it's the first sifi version of a bioware animaton) ?
Of course some specific real world robots deserve mention.
Big Blue for one.
This is politically charged (and I'm both non- and somewhat anti-American) but the Patriot misiles are a very good example of practical robotics being well applied. I may dissagree with where they are used - but they are saving lives.
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heck, R2D2 was unflappable... C3PO was completely flappable!! that was the point!
I nominate Angel Lips from The Adventures of Ruby
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