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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)."
I hereby nominate Vicki of Small Wonder for the 2007 induction ceremonies.
I suppose that the fact that Sandstorm and Highlander got beaten means that Stanley won't be on this year's list...
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. And yes, I too would like to kick Spielberg in the balls for that one. And if it wasn't his fault, then I would want to do it anyway because Kubrick is dead and kicking corpses isn't all that satisfying.
But ALL THAT ASIDE I think that this is a great choice because (a) in my mind, the movie DOES end when he finds the Blue Fairy, and (b) it was an excellent, emotionally moving robot. While the "robotic existential angst" thing has been done numerous times (both Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell also come to mind), this one was done quite well, and David was a compelling, sympathetic, and very human character.
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Other than "We ran out of other good nominees", why is 2006 a good year to recognize this particular group?
Was he even in the running? If not this hall of fame has no legitimacy.
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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.
Someone should make a robot that rows a bot. Robot row, row, row your boat ROW BOAT ROBOT!
Somebody's got to nominate Jay Leno's BattleBot, Chin-Killa !
May I suggest BENDER BENDING RODRIGUEZ
I mean, come one people, he leads the current poll with 41% of the vote. And it's a biased poll, there is a ringer robot from the future named Cowboy Neal!
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!
Everytime anyone goes to a computer to cast their vote for him, it immediately locks up, sends out a beep code that roughly translated says "Why Me?" and... and... well, I don't know what and... wait a minute, does not turn on ever again. That got rather costly, one would think.
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They are, after all, protecting us from the Terrible Secret of Space.
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Data from Star Trek TNG should of course be included in the hall of fame. Though technically he's an android, not a robot, and so are many of the other nominees.
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I did not mean that CS was formerly CIT, I meant CMU was formerly CIT. The name CIT was subsequently reused for engineering. If they had named the engineering school "Mellon Institute of Technology" it would have had an amusing acronym.
And what about "Robot" from "Lost In Space?" Granted, the series sucked, but Robot was cool.
For that matter, what about Robbie from "Forbidden Planet?"
And R. Daneel Olivaw? And Questor? (re:sex - "I am fully functional." He said it BEFORE Data did).
Hmmmm....this smells like a rigged election. Maybe the Dan Quayle robot should be questioned...oh wait, he was "upgraded" to the G.W. Bush robot.
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I'm surprised the Lost in Space robot hasn't been included. He was designed by some of the same people who did Robby, and although the show was a bit campy, he was a big hit with the fans.
These days, the robot would have sounded an Amber Alert everytime Will went somewhere unsupervised with Doctor Smith.
I'm shocked that Dakota Fanning wasn't even nominated!
You can actually nominate robots yourself:
http://www.robothalloffame.org/nominate.php
Bender is currently at ~ 7% -- I think we can do better.
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What, no Norby? Those books were the stuff growing up. Plus, he's named after a guy named Weiner! How is he not in?
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Roomba has already saved me hours of cleaning. Are useful robots excluded or something ?
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Agreed. It's kindof like having a martial arts hall of fame induction include one of the Gracie brothers (competitors in the UFC), Morehei Ueshiba (O'sensei-founder of Aikido) and Mr. Miyagi.
The first are skilled and proven fighters, the second was an infuential force in the community, and the last was a character in a movie.
Make these seperate freakin' categories. Duh.
Work Bots, Play Bots, Fictional Bots. Then induct one or three per category, per year. Lumping them all together is ridiculous. In fact, A fourth category for research would be nice too.
Let's face the facts. Robotics has always been a field that had significant influence between in both the real world and in our creative minds. Remember the word robot was borrowed from a play. Also, if you were to completely discount some of the most important robots that ironically were not even called robots or even exsisisted. You can't open a robotics book without having Braitenberg's name mentioned even though his robots were just a thought experiment like Flatland.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
Here's a link: Supertoys Last All Summer Long
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An android is a robot made with a human appearance, so saying he's "an android, not a robot" is like saying Fifi is a poodle, not a dog.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=futura+metrop olis&btnG=Google+Search
Maria was the human that Futura impersonated. Holy shit, these idiots can't do a minimum amount of research!
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Wired's top 50 Robots If you want a more thorough review of robots check out Wired's article. Maybe I'm baised because Stanford has 3 bots in the top ten (Stanley is #1!). But, it has pretty pictures too, and everybody loves pictures.
Sorry, the University now known as Carnegie Mellon University was never known as "Carnegie Institute of Technology", or CIT. When it started, it was called "The Carnegie Technical Institute" or CTI which is probably what you meant. When the school started creating other programs than engineering, and accepted a large amount of money from the Mellon family to start a buisness school, the University's name changed to "Carnegie Mellon University" and the Engineering program became "Carnegie Institute of Technology". The school was not associated with the Mellon family before this point. This was well before the founding of the school of Computer Science, which was sometime between 1956 and 1969 depending on which aniversary part you believe (the 50th aniversary of the department was held in 2006, while the 25th aniversary party was held in 1994.
Two classics and... who? from where?
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I don't care if you DID like A.I. -- David is not in the same class as Gort or the robot from Metropolis, and neither should he be inducted with them.
Sheesh. Two landmark science fiction films... and that thing. Where is the justification for this totally pointless, and yet nonetheless infuriating decision?
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Robby is already in the hall.
Main inductees page is here. Click the ultra-light grey link in the sidebar to see the 2003 inductees.
Astroboy is also in. Not terribly knowledgeable regarding the character or its impact, but I've heard him mentioned enough that I can't argue his place there. R2-D2 and C-3PO are in as well.
Then there's one last science fiction member: HAL 9000. All these years, I could've sworn he was a computer... but, well.
Can anyone explain what HAL is doing there?
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How the hell did it take this long for "Maria" to make it in to the hall of fame? Isn't that one of hollywood's earliest robots? and most important in the development of the science fiction genre?
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Could someone direct me to the Short Circuit thread here?
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Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five thread also.
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The submitter of the article incorrectly stated that CMU was celebrating 50 years of its computer science dept (known as SCS since 1988) and that is not the case. The first CS dept was actually established sometime in 1965 I believe. What is being celebrated here is "50 Years of Computer Science Excellence" in other words, 50 years of CS research being done at the school, which predates the establishment of an actual department solely dedicated to the discipline.
What he said.
In summary:
CIT = Engineering, SCS = Computer Science. They both have completely separate admissions departments and curiculums, and transfering from one department to the other is just has hard as trasfering from one university to another (if you are accpeted by both). Carnegie Mellon University has born several names, but has never been called CIT, the current name of the Engineering Department. Carnegie and Mellon were not the same people, but two seperate people. Andrew Carnegie founded two colleges that eventually became the current university (Carnegie Technical Institute for men and Margret Morison school for women). At a later time, the Mellon family donated a significant amount of money to the school to establish a buisness school (Tepper School of Buisness), and the name of the university was changed to Carnegie Mellon University.
Also, the SCS department likes to have lots of parties celebrating its establishment, after the successful 50th aniversary party this year, I anticipate an excellent centenial extravaganza in 2018.
Well, the only explanation I can come up with it this. HAL was in charge of the ship systems. He could control all sorts of things, from the cold sleep chambers to the pod bay doors. I guess, if you look at it, HAL was the computer and the Discovery was actually a robot. Sort of.
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is the character in Star Wars most like us? I'm gonna have to say, no. The character most like us is Owen Lars. He plods through life with no real goal and burns out at a young age.
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