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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...
You 21th century robots can bite my 31th century metal ass because everyone on slashdot wants to be a bending unit like me, Bender!
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.
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
"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.
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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!
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.
They are, after all, protecting us from the Terrible Secret of Space.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
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.
You can actually nominate robots yourself:
http://www.robothalloffame.org/nominate.php
Bender is currently at ~ 7% -- I think we can do better.
Go Bender! Go Bender!
sig? Oh, that sig...
Roomba has already saved me hours of cleaning. Are useful robots excluded or something ?
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Could someone direct me to the Short Circuit thread here?
Stephanie!
Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five thread also.
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