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."

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Robot Hall of Fame?

[Anonymous Coward]

My nominee would have been Dick Cheney. Too late though!

Heh.

[Renraku]

*hasn't R'edTFA yet*

Johnny-5 better be on there. The Short Circuit series was the shit.

Highlight !!!!!

[Timesprout]

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.

Kiss my shiny metal...

[Nos.]

I wish Bender had been nominated.

HAL9000 is in ...but

[xmas2003]

"Dave's not here"

Al Gore unavailable for comment

[MobileDude]

He invented robots, you know? /and probably is one - one incredibly angry robot

Nintendo ROB?

[stateofmind]

Where is the Hall of Shame at? So I can nominate Nintendo's ROB (Robotic Operated Buddy). :)

Photo of Rob, innocent at play

Josh

Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[VidEdit]

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

Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

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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Robotics Institute 25

[feelyoda]

this is just part of a BIG event for CMU, the Robotics Institute's 25th.

Look here for semi-live blogging of tomorrows talks.

These robots are just proxies for

[museumpeace]

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.

go with the astromech

[snap-hiss]

I would have picked R2 over 3PO. I mean, he is the man in the relationship.