CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame

CMU_Nort writes "Carnegie Mellon University has just unveiled the Robot Hall of Fame. Along with that announcement, MSNBC has an article about the first honorary inductees, including R2D2 and Mars Pathfinder. You also have the chance to nominate other robots."

Nominate A Robot

[Anonymous Coward]

Robot Name: Darl McBride
Robot Link: Darl McBride [sco.com]

Reason:Darl McBride should be considered for induction to the Robot Hall of Fame for his wonderful example of autonomous operation in the face of outstanding obstacles. If placed in the same position, any lesser robot would seg fault and dump core, but not Darl. He fearlessly plugs away at his thankless job, pressing the PR button. Hopefully, the twillight of solid-state death will not come to this robot too soon, and when it does, may it come suddenly, like a fast-burning fuse popping. Until such time, let's raise our soldiering irons to this icon -nay, this paragon of robotic execution that is Darl Mc Bride and immortalize him in the Robot Hall of Fame.

Thank you.

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Sybian

[Anonymous Coward]

Sybian [sybian.com] has my vote.

The most famous robots of all

[Hi_2k]

Everybody knows them: The microsoft marketing people!

k9?

[DAldredge]

What about K9 from Dr. Who? That put a rolling trashcan that beeps into the hall of fame, but they don't put in K9?

Why? Did Lukas donate some money to there school at somepoint?

Logical choice...

[MoeMoe]

You also have the chance to nominate other robots.

What about Dick Clark? Can you explain why that guy doesn't age after over a century of "A Dick Clark Rockin' New Years Bash"?

I got a nominee...

[meta-monkey]

I used to work at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory [ufl.edu] at the University of Florida [ufl.edu]. Back the mid '90s we developed a couple of robots that would wander around, avoiding walls and the like, and when their battery power got low, they would seek out a charging station we set up. Well, one of the robots had stronger motors on its wheels than the other. The smaller robot was on the charger, but the bigger robot pushed it off because it needed to charge. The smaller robot was too puny to retaliate, and its batteries ran out. This may well be the first documented case of robot murder. I nominate Grazer, the bigger robot, for induction as the first ever robot murderer!

I talked to Bender about that he said

[geekoid]

"I'm going to start my own Hall of Fame. With Hookers and Booze....forget the hall of fame."

then he blew smoke in my face and said "CMU can Bite my shiney metal ass! loosers."

I would go after him, but I seemed to have lost my wallet.

Re:I got a nominee...

[Oscar_Wilde]

The big robot didn't murder the small one, you've got it all wrong. The charging station was liberated!

I nominate...

[WIAKywbfatw]

...Muffit. But only because you twisted my arm into doing so.

Al Gore!

[NanoGator]

ILM did an awesome job with his animitronics.

Re:What definition of robot are they using?

[xanadu-xtroot.com]

when your car can drive you around

Then you know your living in Soviet Russia...

Nomination

[garymcg]

I nominate Al Gore, the robot that invented the internet!! Everyone thinks he dropped out of public life, but he's just resting until it's time to reemerge....as Skynet!!