2004 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame

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."

Robot Hall of Fame?

[Anonymous Coward]

My nominee would have been Dick Cheney. Too late though!

Re:Robot Hall of Fame?

[joelanders]

Marvin the paranoid android should be there...

Wifi

[Doc Ruby]

More like George Bush. Now the truth can finally be told: that debate hump [democrats.com] was a WiFi antenna!

Re:Wifi

[Doc Ruby]

So, Anonymous farking Coward, you admit that Bush is a robot spy! Tell us that he's from the future, and that he takes the same batteries as Schwarzenegger. We'll get them both by grounding the ionosphere!

Re:Wifi

[Doc Ruby]

Yes, they obviously transplanted an unnatural spine into the president who flipflopped on steel tarrifs, pre/post 9/11 terrorism priorities, catching Osama, education, nationbuilding, uniting/dividing, the environment, WMD in Iraq, and everything else that faced down his cowboy words and fratboy convictions. That's why the bulge is so small, and he doesn't have the guts to admit that he can't face any questions unless Cheney's "got his back". In fact, maybe that lump is Cheney. Maybe Bush has flipflopped fr

Re:Wifi

[AndroidCat]

Are you sure it wasn't a .. squirrel? [ibiblio.org]

Re:Wifi

[Doc Ruby]

No, experts agree that the lump was really Bush's smarter brother [southparkstudios.com].

Bill Gates

[seems so green]

I nominate Bill Gates. Dude ain't right, you know? Gotta be a robot.

Re:Bill Gates

[Anonymous Coward]

I would nominate Steve Ballmer, the world's first robotic monkey

(Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers...)

Re:Bill Gates

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Gotta be a robot.

Verses Steve Balmer who is a marionette (Developers! Developers! Developers! Can't you just see him dancing all over the stage with wires attached to his limbs?)

Heh.

[Renraku]

*hasn't R'edTFA yet*

Johnny-5 better be on there. The Short Circuit series was the shit.

Re:Heh.

[Tony Hoyle]

You added an extra 'the' to that sentence...

Re:

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Highlight !!!!!

[Timesprout]

The highlight of the ceremony was apparently a handshake between Anthony Daniels (C-3PO) and ASIMO (Honda)

If that was the highlight how many people bludgeoned themselves to death to escape the boredom? Jeez I bet even a few of the robots self terminated if that was as good as it got.

2004 Inductees?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a lot of people--er, robots.

Kiss my shiny metal...

[Nos.]

I wish Bender had been nominated.

HAL9000 is in ...but

[xmas2003]

"Dave's not here"

WTH? What about Bender??

[raitchison]

The voters can kiss his shiny metal ass, he definitely should have made it in.

Is HAL even a robot? I though he/it was a computer.

I'll be pissed of Tweakie (TWKE-4) makes it in before Bender.

Re:WTH? What about Bender??

[NanoGator]

"Is HAL even a robot? I though he/it was a computer."

If a stationary computer can take out a human, it deserves to be field promoted to 'robot'.

Re:WTH? What about Bender??

[Dabido]

Well, let's get off our shiny metal asses and nominate him.
BENDER FOR PRESIDENT.
... Oh, I mean for Robot hall of fame.

Al Gore unavailable for comment

[MobileDude]

He invented robots, you know? /and probably is one - one incredibly angry robot

Re:Al Gore unavailable for comment

[arose]

He must be a time traveling robot then.

Re:DUPE?

[lucabrasi999]

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.

Re:DUPE?

[Anonymous Coward]

The paper posted it twice, back in June and again in October. Looks like their Science section is nothing more than filler.

Nintendo ROB?

[stateofmind]

Where is the Hall of Shame at? So I can nominate Nintendo's ROB (Robotic Operated Buddy). :)

Photo of Rob, innocent at play [atarihq.com]

Josh

Will Smith

[Kinkify]

I wonder if Will Smith was prevented from attending?

Re:Will Smith

[Performaman]

Don't forget Harrison Ford: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner/ [wikipedia.org]

Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[VidEdit]

What an appalling sense of science fiction history these people have. They have "SIMO...ASTRO BOY...C-3PO...Robby, the Robot...Shakey" but the ground-breaking robot from Metropolis, Maria, isn't there. This sexy robot was years ahead of its time and it wasn't until Star Wars that the boxy water heaters with flexible duct arms finally gave way back to this original design.

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:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[snap-hiss]

Let's be honest... 3PO is the man. Write that down.

Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

While you're right on the mark about Maria, you're missing the meaning of the word "fame," as in "Robot Hall of Fame."
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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Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[VidEdit]

It is a good point, but I think that should be more to a "Hall of Fame" than just voting in the most recent candidates. If mere fame were enough, then a Hall of Fame would be redundant since only the most obviously famous would be there...but perhaps that is the point, to pander to people.

Re:Where is Maria, the sexy robot from Metropolis?

[AndroidCat]

I would certainly never have hot robotic sex with a robot invented by evil Dr. Rotwang. [activitaly.it] You just don't know who she's been.

Robotics Institute 25

[feelyoda]

this is just part of a BIG [ri25.com] event for CMU, the Robotics Institute's 25th.

Look here [blogspot.com] for semi-live blogging of tomorrows talks.

These robots are just proxies for

[museumpeace]

the companies that use them as window dressing "research" for PR purposes. The "robots from science" category might be legit. A glaring omission is a category like "robots from industry". Welders, spray painters and lab technicians who prepare DNA samples for sequencing engines may lament their lost jobs but few people have any idea how much their Ford or Chevy would cost or how many more decades it would have taken to crack the human genome without those least spectacular and dumbest of automatons. Except that I assume the hall of fame sponsors have hopes of keeping public interest in robotics from going all the way to zero, I think its kinda phony.

Yup, yup. Word.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

So true. When the average person thinks of robots they think of Robbie (not even a real robot) like bots. But most real robots bear no resemblance at all to the human form. Think of, for example, modern automotive manufacturing, or appliances such as electronic equipment. Almost completely built by robots.

What about Pimpbot?

[vdo2000]

How about some diversity?

Re:What about Pimpbot?

[snap-hiss]

Or Robot Frank.

go with the astromech

[snap-hiss]

I would have picked R2 over 3PO. I mean, he is the man in the relationship.

Re:go with the astromech

[IngoSchi]

R2-D2 is already an inductee of 2003. [robothalloffame.org]

Wrong link

[Lars T.]

You want the actor Robby [imdb.com], not one of his movies.

What about AIBO and QRIO?

[jddqr]

Why does Carnegie Mellon continue to ignore QRIO [sony.net] and AIBO [aibo.com] for this "hall of fame"? Both robots have a place in the Guinness Book [guinnessworldrecords.com] of World Records [guinnessworldrecords.com], but CMU is consistently ignoring them for some reason.

I call shenanigans!

Megaman

[CrazyJim0]

Fictional robot off a video game count?

Or how about the t-2000 terminator series?

Maybe they don't want bleak outlooks

God spoke with me:

www.geocities.com/James_Sager_PA/love3.html

Re:Megaman

[AndroidCat]

"Megaman, NT Warrior"? Dude, if he'd switch from NT, half his problems would be solved!

After all the fun....

[westies-from-hell]

Clean-up of the induction ceremony provided by Roomba [roombacommunity.com]....

Re:ASIMO

[mattdm]

Um, that's not funny. That's _obvious_.

Re:ASIMO

[NanoGator]

"Funny how Honda named it ASIMO, it always reminds me of robots invented by Asimov."

No no, it was named Asimo because the prototype spouted ideas for Adam Sandler movies.

Bogus!Bogus!Bogus!

[rts008]

No Bender, No Hall of Fame!!!

Re:Bogus!Bogus!Bogus!

[flink]

I'm building my own hall of fame... with beer and hookers!
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Never mind the beer.

Oh yeah dude. I understand.

[sw155kn1f3]

> Well, at least Robby the Robot finally made it in. Now I can sleep easy at night. ... Alone in your parents' basement, hugging robby the robot instead of some hot blonde. How familiar ;)

MST3K 'bots

[Reverend Raven]

What about Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot? Further dissing of MST3K.

Re:MST3K 'bots

[Elindel]

I noticed that Tom Servo, clearly the funniest robot ever, wasn't on the nominee list, so I had to submit him.

Sure he was just a gumball machine glued to a barrel of monkeys, but he has feelings too!

Re:MST3K 'bots

[NanoGator]

"Sure he was just a gumball machine glued to a barrel of monkeys, but he has feelings too!"

And he's quoted far more often than C3PO.

Robby the Robot

[Hezerous]

When I first read that I thought they were talking about the little NES robot. What a pity.

but what about??

[Daktaklakpak]

the tit man from wizard of oz? he had to be a robot!

Re:but what about??

[Daktaklakpak]

oops, i meant tin man

Re:but what about??

[NitroWolf]

Damn...

I hate when they sanitize movies just to get the PG rating. I want to see the R-Rated version of Wizard of Oz.

Although, I admit, my mind boggles as to how the Tit man would integrate into the story. Judy was pretty sexy in her day though...

marvin the paranoid android?

[Daktaklakpak]

fictional characters can be from books right?

No Cybermen or R.Daneel!

[Magickcat]

The Hall of fame seems to completely disregard Dr Who and English sci-fi in general. No Cybermen, no K-9, no Daleks (semi-organics), no Tim from the Tomorrow People. .. and where's R. Daneel? If the longest ever running sci-fi television show, and the proposer of the positronic brain and the three laws of robotics can't get in the door, then the Bat computer will probably win it next year.

a hall of fame is nothing without hollywood

[comet69]

jesus.. i think most of you can agree that you feel its quite lame for there to be "fake" or hollywood robots to be in the hall of fame.. yea they may have been cool characters, there's no doubt in my mind about that.. but what about the people that dedicate their lives to robotics? there's much more than ASIMO out there..

RE: Your sig

[datadictator]

It's Torvalds not Torvald.

Geez other languages don't use a leading s for pluralization - the singular form of Torvalds is STILL Torvalds.

Re: Your sig

[comet69]

poop-poop-poop-a-loop

Man...

[DourSalmon]

I swear they just did the exact same thing like a year ago.

2004 inductees?

[some guy I know]

2004 inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame.

Wow, there were that many?

There are many worthy

[datadictator]

candidates unmentioned (as seen by reading up).

Some less obvious ones:
The star-trek computer (Well they added HAL)
Jane from the Ender series (She's so much more than a computer afterall)
The entire cast of Ghost in the Shell.
And if that goes, well heck what about Agent Smith ?
Does frankensteins monster count (After all it's the first sifi version of a bioware animaton) ?

Of course some specific real world robots deserve mention.
Big Blue for one.
This is politically charged (and I'm both non- and somewhat ant

unflappable

[fortunatus]

they called C3PO "unflappable"!!

heck, R2D2 was unflappable... C3PO was completely flappable!! that was the point!

Most Seductive Robot Nominated

[Madcapjack]

I nominate Angel Lips [zbs.org] from The Adventures of Ruby