Robot Hall of Fame
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The Robot Hall of Fame was established in 2003 by the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is designed to honor both achievements in robotics technology and robots from science fiction that have served as creative inspiration in robotics. The first induction ceremony was held at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh on November 10, 2003.
List of inductees
2003
- HAL 9000 - fictional computer system from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover - explored Mars in 1997
- R2-D2 - fictional robot from Star Wars
- Unimate - the first industrial robot, who worked on a General Motors assembly line in 1961
2004
- ASIMO - a humanoid robot created by Honda
- Astro Boy - fictional
- C-3PO - fictional robot from Star Wars
- Robby the Robot - fictional robot from Forbidden Planet
- Shakey the Robot - the first mobile robot to be able to reason its own actions
External link
- Robot Hall of Fame (http://www.robothalloffame.org/)de:Robot Hall of Fame