C-3PO Joins R2 in the Robot Hall of Fame 122
dev_alac writes "The BBC is
reporting that
C-3PO has been inducted into Carnegie Mellon's
Robot Hall of Fame, along with
Asimo,
Shakeyboy -- "the first mobile robot to reason about its actions," Astroboy, and of course, Robby the Robot of Forbidden Planet fame. There, he joins such other legendary mechanical beings as
Hal 9000, R2-D2, and
Sojourner." Update: 06/20 08:27 GMT by T : Yep, it's a near-dupe of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story linked the other day.
DUPE (Score:3, Informative)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/18/173
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
Oh dear! (Score:4, Funny)
C3PO is not gay (Score:5, Funny)
Re:C3PO is not gay (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:1)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ummm, C3PO was fictional? (Score:2)
Well, at least you're unsure...
Obligatory Simpsons Quote (Score:4, Funny)
C-3PO: "R2 help me!"
R2: "beep beep beep"
C-3PO: "I hate you, you're so boring!"
Mad Magazine rip off (Score:2, Interesting)
marvin? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:marvin? (Score:5, Informative)
he particulary fills the criteria of this Robot Hall of Fame.
- These are the fictional robots that have inspired us to create real robots that are productive, helpful, and entertaining. These robots have achieved worldwide fame as fictional characters and have helped form our opinions about the functions and values of real robots. -
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw on their site. Easily one of the most awesome creations of Asimov ever. It's the main character in several of his books, not just a sidekick. - Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire.
If you never read them you should read the series:
Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and the two above mentioned titles.
In this series Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and the invention of "the Zeroed law" by Daneel and Giskard have been a real contribution in the way I think about Robots. Types like Data from Star Trek are in my view heavily inspired by this work.
Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager, and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
Re:marvin? (Score:2)
Re:marvin? (Score:3, Interesting)
- Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
- Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn.
These books are almost 50 years old and as readable as ever, they rate second only to Tolkien's work for me.
In his later Foundation novels he ties the earlier stories together:
Prelude to Foundation, Foundation and Earth.
I am no
Re:marvin? (Score:2)
Then what excuse is there for the absence of AF709?
Re:marvin? (Score:2)
I do not know the series so I will make no further comment.
Re:marvin? (Score:1)
HAL - IBM (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:5, Informative)
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:3, Funny)
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:4, Informative)
You can also say that IBM comes from taking the letters HAL and adding 1 to each letter. However, given that IBM wasn't created in this fashion, it's easily denied. Similarly, Clarke has stated that he didn't create HAL by taking the IBM letters and subtracting 1 from each letter. Yes, you can *derive* HAL this way, but Clarke didn't.
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:1)
There's also that *6. I dunno what to make of that one. Maybe IBM's lack of HAL will only make it evil if IBM splits into 6 different companies or grows to be 6 times its current size?
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:2)
Happenstance odds of three random letters alphabetically neighboring IBM in either direction: 26^3/2
Likelihood that Clarke's denial was inspired by fear of an IBM lawsuit: 1
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:2)
I'll tell you why -- 'cause HPAC doesn't decode to IBM.
Besides, what computer does NOT use "Algorithms?"
The word is redundant in the name of any computer. But it was forced in, to allow the IBM/HAL wordplay.
[Whine]But AC Clarke would never lie to me, even if it meant getting sued[/whine]
He lied, grow up and get over it.
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:1, Funny)
It's not evil, it was rightly defending it's intellectual property from evil hackers!
BTW, has there been an "RBN" in any movie? I'm imagining something more malicious than Skynet but with the intellect of a VIC-20.
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:2)
The odds of a particular coincidence may be very small, but the odds of being able to find some unusual coincidence is quite good. Finding some coincidence in the name of a character of some science fiction writer is not particularly remarkable.
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:3, Informative)
It would be more of a coincedence, except(from wikipedia [wikipedia.org]):
"Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation to build NT, and many elements reflect earlier DEC experience with VMS and RSX-11. "
Seems like less of a coincedence when you take that into consideration
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:1)
oooh. +1 Pedantic.
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, that's right, "BSOD".
KFG
Re:HAL - IBM (Score:1)
Coincidence? (Score:2)
Isaac ASIMOV: Prolific writer of science fiction and author of such titles as "I, Robot" and promulgated a set of rules of ethics for robots - Three Laws of Robotics.
Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:2)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Coincidence? (Score:2)
"Engelberger, who built the first industrial robot, called Unimate, in 1958, attributes his long-standing fascination with robots to his reading of [Asimov's] 'I, Robot' when he was a teenager", and Engelberger later invited Asimov to write the foreword to his robotics manual.
I voted for R. Daneel Olivaw to be added to the Hall of Fame, because I think that Asimov's creations have had a much more profound impact on the way we think about robots, as George Lucas more recent crea
Welcome to Slashdot world! (Score:1, Funny)
KFG
Ahem... (Score:3, Funny)
Sincerely,
George Lucas(TM)
Re:Anybody remember the cartoon? (Score:2)
There was more than one Robbie (Score:2)
Re:There was more than one Robbie (Score:2, Funny)
Rather sad. He never even made it into late night TV commercials.
Re:There was more than one Robbie (Score:1)
Re:There was more than one Robbie (Score:2)
C3PO and R2D2 included separately!? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!? (Score:2)
Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!? (Score:2)
Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!? (Score:1)
Re:C3PO and R2D2 included separately!? (Score:3, Interesting)
Vger (Score:1)
More about c-3po (Score:3, Informative)
Re:More about c-3po (Score:1, Funny)
Dissappointed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dissappointed (Score:2)
Unfortunately I can't find a link to the picture that was on the cover of the World Weekly News.
Re:Dissappointed (Score:2)
Finally, they broke the 'robo' barrier (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally, they broke the 'robo' barrier (Score:1)
Those guys all seem to have had steady work, so I wouldn't call them hobos.
"Shakeyboy"??? That's SHAKEY THE ROBOT to you, sir (Score:5, Informative)
Shakey's name came about because his drive motor didn't do continuous accelleration. I'm not sure whether the limitation was in the mechanics or in the control logic, but the effect was that his wheels would start and stop almost instantaneously, and the rest of him -- having a fair bit of mass -- would naturally wobble a bit when transitioning to a new direction or speed.
(My father's team at SRI built Shakey, so I got to meet the robot for the first time when I was about 6 years old at some sort of SRI open house event.)
Shakey is retired now, and spends most of his days reminiscing from within a large glass display case at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
Re:"Shakeyboy"??? That's SHAKEY THE ROBOT to you, (Score:2, Funny)
Radio Shack Armatron (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Radio Shack Armatron (Score:1)
Robot Hall of Fame has no credibility (Score:1, Funny)
Don't Forget Twiki's Girlfriend (Score:2)
C-3PO? (Score:4, Funny)
Futurama (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Futurama (Score:1)
I for one.... (Score:2)
Re:I for one.... (Score:2)
Giant Robot, this is Johnny Sokko, come in please.
Re:I for one.... (Score:2)
... No Norby? (Score:1)
What about the AWESOM-O 4000 (Score:1)
How is HAL a "robot"? (Score:2)
There, he joins such other legendary mechanical beings as Hal 9000...
Uhm, isn't HAL more of an electronic being than a mechanical one? Maybe I'm missing some finer points of the definition of "robot".
Re:How is HAL a "robot"? (Score:1)
Re:How is HAL a "robot"? (Score:1)
Re:How is HAL a "robot"? (Score:1)
So he went from being a robot to being a disembodied robot. Besides, what's a robot, if not a computer with "limbs"? C3PO had arms and legs, HAL-9000 had booster rockets and creepy little red eyes all over the place.
it's all politics at the robot hall of fame (Score:1)
One day A.W.E.S.O.M. – O 4000. (Score:1)
Interesting but useless fact. (Score:1)
What about AWSOM-O? (Score:2)
C-3P0 isn't a robot by any definition; he's an image. Although the bot was played by a human, the human was just reciting scripted lines, making him no better than a plain computer. So if a scripted character can get into a HoF, then certainly AWSOM-O is worthy.
I smell.. (Score:2)
Very nice (Score:1)
And what about Model B-9? (Score:1)
The most famous robot of all.
What about Marvin? (Score:1)
Slashdotters unite: nominate Marvin!
B166-ER has my nomination (Score:2)
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