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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.
"Dave's not here"
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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
10 MD
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.
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!"
You want the actor Robby, not one of his movies.
Lars T.
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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
the tit man from wizard of oz? he had to be a robot!
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