Robot Hall of Fame

Smaz writes "Apparently Carnegie Mellon has set up a Hall of Fame for robots and their inventors. Wonder if it'll have the pull of a RnR Hall of Fame or Baseball Hall of Fame? I'd visit." Any nominees?

GORT

[m.e.l.l.e.n.t.i.n.e]

I nominate GORT!! [robotoys.com]

Metropolis

[RobotRunAmok]

I nominate Brigette Helm [themakeupgallery.info], her character "Maria," and her creator Rotwang. Oh, I guess we should acknowledge Fritz Lang as well, huh?

"Metropolis" is Eternal.

Gaak!

[Faust7]

I nominate Gaak [slashdot.org], who bravely liberated himself into the parking lot.

Lots of candidates

[mooman]

If they want Hollywood ones, the list is long..
Gort [yourlink.net] (from "The Day the Earth Stood Still")
Johnny Five [johnny-five.com] (from "Short Circuit")
Half the cast of "The Black Hole [blueyonder.co.uk]"
Any of the Star Wars ones...
Plus the evil one from "Saturn V",
Logan's Run,
Buck Rogers,
Battlestar Galactica
and so on...

The public will recognize those.. I doubt there are many (if any?) non-fictitious robots that the general public could name or recognize.

Zoltar

[MacBrave]

I vote for the Zoltar machine in the movie "BIG". He could grant wishes and stuff.....

What about Marvin

[Timesprout]

Very disappointing that the paranoid android with a brain the size of a small planet has not gottena vote yet from the Douglas Adams fans

First permanently depressed robbot ever

Define Robot?

[stratjakt]

From dictionary.com

Robot:

1) A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.

2) A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.

3) A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others


So which definition of robot makes it into the hall of fame?

By definition 1, many commonplace things qualify, like my PC with printer. It performs the complex task of doing my taxes.

By definition 2, even more things qualify. My toaster automatically makes toast.

By definition 3, this would be full of slashdot editors. Hardly worthy of such an honor, IMO.

And the winner is...

[Kaz Riprock]

The entire front exhibit of the MIT museum. For anyone in Boston who has been to the museum, they know that there are some amazing walking robots (check out the PBS shows where they do flips and things) and that robot that looks like a giant Furby face which mimics emotions based on audio and visual input.

Also, there's the robot that went to the psych meeting and hit that guy in the ankle and didn't even apologize, but delivered his own seminar on how he was created and took a quick Q and A afterwards.

Third, I nominate the Terminator. That's just one mad motivated machine...and it's back!

Re:Isaac Asimov

[1u3hr]

Asimov is also credited with inventing the word "robotics". At least he complained that 20 or 30 years later (he started writing his robot stories in the early 1940s) that when the word came into use by real scientists that no one gave him a byline...