Robot Hall of Fame 2004 Inductees Announced

generic-man writes "According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Carnegie Mellon University has announced this year's inductees for the Robot Hall of Fame. On October 11, the Hall welcomes Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet, Astroboy, C3PO, Honda's ASIMO, and a 'pioneering mobile robot called Shakey.' They join R2D2. the Mars Pathfinder rover, and other robots from the class of 2003."

My nominations . . .

[harley_frog]

Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Mystery Science Theater 3000. Let's face it, not everyone (robots included) can sit through ten years of the cheesiest movies ever made without getting some kind of award.

Re:When's Data getting in?

[Anonymous Coward]

Lt. Cmdr Data deserves this. It is an OUTRAGE to see him excluded from this prestigious list!

Re:Bender

[McAddress]

Beagle 2 anyone?

Danger, Danger!

[Tumbleweed]

No 'Robot' from Lost in Space? (I can't remember his model number.)

Also:

whatserface from Metropolis
Huey, Dewey & Louie from Silent Running
the Kung Fu robots from Ice Pirates ("I can't figure out this one's program.")
the friendly denizens of Westworld

Lots of others deserving to be included!

I didn't see any of these mentioned from the 2003 list, and I couldn't find the 'total' list, if there is one. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?

I, not a Robot

[arth1]

Robby would be nice, yes.

But what surprises me is how they could elect Asimo without also electing R. Daneel Olivaw! Without R. Daneel, there wouldn't have been an Asimo. Well, at least not under that name.

Regards,
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*Art

ironic that there's ASIMO..

[gl4ss]

..but nothing from asimoV..

especially when asimov's robots had much more depth than starwars robots could ever aspire to have.. even if he made them act by pre-set logical rules(which was the whole point anyways).

I mean, christ, even terminator is more robot(_machine_) like than r2d2 or c3p0 are, r2d2 and c3p0 could be a midget and a butler without any difference in their actions(of course, the midget would have to be a slicer as well..).

in fiction making a character into a robot is most just to justify the character for being very shallow(and geek 'sexy') and to have special powers.

The obvious winners next year....

[MtViewGuy]

....The Mars Exploration Rovers named Spirit and Opportunity that have tremendously expanded our knowledge of the Martian soil since their missions began at the beginning of 2004. The spectacular pictures from two MER's have opened up the very distinct possibility that life once existed on Mars extensively, and some primitive forms of life may still exist there even now.