2004 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame 99
lucabrasi999 writes "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story today on the 2004 inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda). Well, at least Robby the Robot finally made it in. Now I can sleep easy at night."
Re:DUPE? (Score:3, Interesting)
Woops! You know, I searched for Dupes before I submitted the article. I guess I just didn't go back far enough in time. Sorry.
Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis? (Score:5, Interesting)
The idea that they would have C3P0 without first inducting Maria, who C3P0 is derivative of, shows a poor acknowledgment of the foundation laid for the future by Fritz Lang.
Check out: http://www.jeffbots.com/maria.html [jeffbots.com]
Re:DUPE? (Score:1, Interesting)
These robots are just proxies for (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis? (Score:5, Interesting)
Lang was visionary, (as was Wilcox with Forbidden Planet) but Maria was and is not famous.
Still, she should have at least got an honorary mention for the obvious impact she made on Lucas.
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