2006 Robot Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

qeorqe writes "The Robot Hall of Fame 2006 inductees have been announced! The induction ceremony will be at the RoboBusiness Conference in Pittsburgh on June 21. Anthony Daniels portrayer of C3PO, will be master of ceremonies. The selected robots are: AIBO, SCARA, David (A.I.), Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), and Maria (Metropolis). The announcement was made in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of the computer science department at CMU (formerly CIT)."

Comments

Re:Oh crap, here we go

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"Ok geeks: Yes, that movie should have ended when he found the Blue Fairy. We all know this. It's been beat to death. I know. You know. We all know."

The super robots found a creative solution to a seemingly unsolvable endless loop. Cool. David dies at the bottom of the ocean sitting in front of the statue of the Blue Fairy. Big journey that comes to a pointless end. Dumb. Hopefully now you understand why people like me come out of the woodwork every time this is suggested and beat it to death.

Go ahead and read this. Hopefully this will lead to a little clarification AND (hopefully) a little less dead horse beating.

It's a stupid award

[Animats]

I can't take seriously a robotics award that mixes fictional and real robots.

Back when the Computer Museum was in Boston, there was a robot exhibit. And, up there on a platform, were most of the early famous robots. Shakey. The Hopkins Beast. The Stanford Arm. Those are real winners. Gort is a costume. This "award" is an embarassment to the field.

Re:It's a stupid award

[Hays]

I don't think your comment is fair. Do you not believe that fictional robots could have a real impact on the field of robotics? I believe they can, possibly more so than real robots.

WTF?

[LouisZepher]

Maybe I just can't find him listed on their site, but why isn't Marvin in there? Not mainstream enough? I'm willing to bet that quite a few of the inductees wouldn't be known outside the geek circle. If fuggin David came make it in, why not Marvin? Haley Joel Osment is a helluva actor, but Marvin is your plastic pal who's fun to be with!

Re:Oh crap, here we go

[Fallingcow]

I would like to take this opportunity to note that A.I. consisted of the beginnings of about ten potentially really good movies, all strung together in a row, followed by the ending to a completely unreletated--but also possibly good--movie.

It's like someone in editing dropped the folders with the plots to several good sci-fi movies on the floor, got them mixed up, and this was the result.

What no Roomba ?

[cobbaut]

Roomba has already saved me hours of cleaning. Are useful robots excluded or something ?