Robot Hall of Fame
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
- Fictional
- HAL 9000 - computer system from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- R2-D2 - robot from Star Wars
- Real
- Mars Pathfinder Sojourner Rover - explored Mars in 1997
- Unimate - the first industrial robot, who worked on a General Motors assembly line in 1961
2004
- Fictional
- Astro Boy - robot from Astro Boy.
- C-3PO - robot from Star Wars
- Robby the Robot - robot from Forbidden Planet
- Real
- ASIMO - a humanoid robot created by Honda
- Shakey the Robot - the first mobile robot to be able to reason its own actions
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