Robot Hall of Fame Inductees 2007

the Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has announced four new inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame.
This years inductees include one robot from fiction and 3 real life milestone-setting robot creations.

The inductees are:

Lt. Cmdr. Data
from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
""Data played a pivotal role on questions of robot 'right to life' matters and human/machine philosophies," said juror Ray Jarvis, director of the Intelligent Robotics Research Centre at the Australian National University."

Raibert Hopper
Invented by Marc Raibert at CMU and MIT.
"The one-legged Hopper was ideal for studying dynamic balance because it could not stand still, but had to keep moving to stay upright. "The Raibert Hopper was the visionary effort that set the entire field of robotic locomotion in motion." The lessons learned with the Hopper proved central for biped, quadruped and even hexapod running. Raibert is now president of the robotics firm he founded, Boston Dynamics."



NavLab 5

"NavLab 5's crowning achievement was "No Hands Across America," a 1995 cross-country tour on which it did 98 percent of the driving. "This was the first time that any autonomous vehicle had traversed so much different terrain," said juror Chuck Thorpe"

LEGO Mindstorms
""This kit did more to take creative robotics to the masses than just about any other retail product," said juror Illah Nourbakhsh, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute.
Juror Joanna Haas, director of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center, agrees. "LEGO has made robotics truly accessible to a broad audience — children and adults alike — and the Mindstorms sub-brand supports wildly popular play and learning in homes, classrooms and museums all around the world.""
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Robot Hall of Fame Inductees

The third year inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame were announced. The Robot Hall of Fame is run by Canegie Mellon University to honor robots, both real and fictional, that have inspired or demonstrated significant accomplishments for robots.

The official induction ceremony for the 5 honorees will be held at the RoboBusiness Conference in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on June 20 this year.

Here are pictures (stolen form various websites) of this year's inductees:

AIBO, an entertainment robot from SONY that was mass-marketed from 1999 until production was stopped this year:

SCARA, Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm. SCARA robots, with shoulder, elbow and wrist joints, are commonly used in pick-and-place assembly and packaging operations.


Robot Maria, from "Metropolis" works for a city's evil corporate leader to instigate a worker's revolt. She established an image for robotics that would persist for decades. Maria's art deco design influenced that of C-3P0 in "Star Wars," a movie that premiered a half-century after the silent film classic.

Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" He was left behind on Earth with the promise that all humanity would be destroyed if they did not get along with each other.

Boy android David from the movie "AI".
"David provides an important template for thinking about robot/human relationships, said psychologist Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. "I think that the problem he sets up with his adoptive mother, Monica -- that we love the machine we nurture -- is a significant model for an important psychological dynamic in contemporary robotics.""


Carnegie Mellon Press Release: April 19, 2006

2006 Robot Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

NORTHBORO, Mass., and FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Robotics Trends and IDG World Expo today announced that Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame will hold its 2006 induction ceremony at the 3rd annual RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. The conference and exposition will be held at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh, PA on June 20-21, 2006.

Past inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame include some of the most significant and well known robots in the world including Honda's Asimo, NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Unimate, the first industrial robot arm that worked on the assembly line.

Robotic Trends also produces the annual RoboNexus Conference.

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