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2004 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the things-you-can't-make-up dept.

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."

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  1. Re:DUPE? by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Woops! You know, I searched for Dupes before I submitted the article. I guess I just didn't go back far enough in time. Sorry.

  2. Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis? by VidEdit · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What an appalling sense of science fiction history these people have. They have "SIMO...ASTRO BOY...C-3PO...Robby, the Robot...Shakey" but the ground-breaking robot from Metropolis, Maria, isn't there. This sexy robot was years ahead of its time and it wasn't until Star Wars that the boxy water heaters with flexible duct arms finally gave way back to this original design.

    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

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    1. Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis? by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 4, Interesting

      While you're right on the mark about Maria, you're missing the meaning of the word "fame," as in "Robot Hall of Fame."
      Lang was visionary, (as was Wilcox with Forbidden Planet) but Maria was and is not famous.

      Still, she should have at least got an honorary mention for the obvious impact she made on Lucas.

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  3. Re:DUPE? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The paper posted it twice, back in June and again in October. Looks like their Science section is nothing more than filler.

  4. These robots are just proxies for by museumpeace · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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