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2006 Robot Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the robotastic dept.

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)."

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  1. Something Special About 2006 by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I realize that this award is only in it's third or fourth year and I don't mean to be a party pooper, but we're talking about a ubiquitous industrial arm, a robot toy, and three movie icons from 1927, 1951, and 2001. My first impression is that these are big enough losers to have not been chosen in the previous years of this award.

    Other than "We ran out of other good nominees", why is 2006 a good year to recognize this particular group?

  2. What no Bender? by Photar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Was he even in the running? If not this hall of fame has no legitimacy.

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  3. It's a stupid award by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

  4. WTF? by LouisZepher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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!

  5. I Nominate by idontgno · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Space Robots!

    They are, after all, protecting us from the Terrible Secret of Space.

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  6. What no Bender? Go nominate him! by atrocious+cowpat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!

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  7. What no Roomba ? by cobbaut · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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