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."

This guy needs to be inducted...

[rolocroz]

Marvin the Paranoid Android [internationalhero.co.uk]. Brain the size of a planet...

Maria

[geekoid]

Maria is from Fritz Lang's Metropolis. 1927. Perhaps the first robot ever put on film.

http://www.jeffbots.com/maria.html

R2D2?

[toupsie]

Wouldn't R2D2 be considered a puppet more than a robot?

Don't tell me they weren't really robots:

[bersl2]

Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo, Crow

That's like telling young children there's no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or Tooth Fairy, yet the monsters under the bed are still going to get them, all at the same time.

Re:What definition of robot are they using?

[geekoid]

HAL is the Brain that controls the ship functions. Automating things for the crew. performing labor. hence Robot.

Is someone with only one arm less human?

Re:what about..

[Galvatron]

Isn't there some bit where he denies being a robot, calling himself an android instead? Anyway, Data being an android was just the excuse to slip a Spock-alike into TNG. Not that I'm complaining, I liked the show, and I liked the character, but Data has no more to do with robotics than I. R2D2 felt more like a tool, was mass produced in the fictional universe (unlike Data, who had a very bizarre origin story, and an "evil twin"), and was generally more believable, I think.

Robby the Robot will always be tops!

[GeneralEmergency]

Robby the Robot from the 1956 classic 'Forbidden Planet' for no other reason than this line:

"Pardon me. I was giving myself an oil-job."