2006 Robot Hall of Fame Inductees Announced 86
qeorqe writes "The Robot Hall of Fame 2006 inductees have been announced! The induction ceremony will be at the RoboBusiness Conference in Pittsburgh on June 21. Anthony Daniels portrayer of C3PO, will be master of ceremonies. The selected robots are: AIBO, SCARA, David (A.I.), Gort (The Day the Earth Stood Still), and Maria (Metropolis). The announcement was made in conjunction with the 50th anniversary celebration of the computer science department at CMU (formerly CIT)."
i have a nomination (Score:3, Funny)
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Thanks for reviving my childhood horrors, jackass.
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Hm. One missing? (Score:3, Interesting)
Oh crap, here we go (Score:2)
Ok geeks: Yes, that movie should have ended when he found the Blue Fairy. We all know this. It's been beat to death. I know. You know. We all know. And yes, I too would like to kick Spielberg in the balls for that one. And if it wasn't his fault, then I would want to do it anyway because Kubrick is dead and kicking corpses isn't all that satisfying.
But ALL THAT ASIDE I think that this is a great choice because (a) in my mind, the movie DOES end when he finds the Blue Fairy, and (b)
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The super robots found a creative solution to a seemingly unsolvable endless loop. Cool. David dies at the bottom of the ocean sitting in front of the statue of the Blue Fairy. Big journey that comes to a pointless end. Dumb. Hopefully now you understand why people like me come out of the woodwork every time this is suggested and beat it to death.
Go ahead
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The super robots found a creative solution to a seemingly unsolvable endless loop. Cool.
Boring, unoriginal, uninspired, and banal.
David dies at the bottom of the ocean sitting in front of the statue of the Blue Fairy. Big journey that comes to a pointless end. Dumb.
Your last two sentences just described life for the vast majority of humans on this planet now and throughout history. But we avoid such conclusions at all costs, consciously and unconsciously, and lash out when we are reminded of it. The
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... said the guy suggesting that the movie should have ended with David dying.
"So while fairy tales with neat, happy endings are nice and make us feel good, they do not reflect the human condition. But people do not like to be reminded of the ultimate pointlessness of it all, so you have endings like A.I.'s."
Oh brother. That is not the reason at all why these stories are told. They're told to make the audience's time worthwhile. If the journey doesn't take the
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So you say this movie does not reflect the human condition. Well, I'm all too happy to argue with that. David had a wish that the odds were against him attaining. Guess what? This is a VERY human condition.
Certainly. But if the movie is about David becoming human, and yet it denies making available to him the penultimate human moment -- death -- then it has not lived up to its premise.
The people who are successful in life are the ones that pursue their dreams. This is an important message that many man
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You seem to be implying that death is the human experience. I cannot make out how that is.
Death does not separate us from any other living thing -- all that lives eventually dies. Hell, all things larger than the basic motes of matter and energy eventually break down and apart.
Knowledge of mortality doesn't separate us eithe
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Nay, some of us thought it was gratuitious, cliché, and unnecessary, especially in a film as long as it already was, not to mention unbelie
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Wow. Just wow.
On a connected note, I would have taken the A.I. the other way: boy finds out that he's a mecha, meets his creator, accepts his fate and then the "mother" realises that she can't let go of her "son" after all. Much more life in that (if you'll pardon the pun) than the whole "aliens giving David his one wish for a day" thing that literally gave us the usual Spielberg fairly-tale ending.
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Much more life in that (if you'll pardon the pun) than the whole "aliens giving David his one wish for a day"
Aliens? They were robots.
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When the machines find David, they touch him and download his memories. His memories are displayed on their faces (much like the earlier mechas that had displays instead of physical faces). I doubt aliens (organic ones at least) would have electronic-like displays integrated into their bodies.
Their faces and bodies were transparent/glass-like with internals that resemble electronic circuits showing.
The machines (through the blue fairy) stated that
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Danforth: "[...] a person is either with this court or he is against it [...]" Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"
Thanks for ruining the movie for me, jerk.
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Did you intend to quote my sig? Or was that an accident? I don't get it.
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I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury, 1950 something or other. Twilight Zone episode 100, 1962, redone as TV movie The Electric Grandmother in 1982.
Certainly nothing against Brian Aldis (the short story is actually rather good. You can find it online by Googling on Supertoys Last All Summer Long), but Ray got there first, and perhaps better.
A better choice for the Robot Hall of Fame, but didn't have the "good fortune" to attract the attention
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Or even Walt Whitman, 1850 something or other.
Why Google? (Score:1)
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It's like someone in editing dropped the folders with the plots to several good sci-fi movies on the floor, got them mixed up, and this was the result.
Oh brave new hall, with such inductees in it (Score:2)
I don't care if you DID like A.I. -- David is not in the same class as Gort or the robot from Metropolis, and neither should he be inducted with them.
Sheesh. Two landmark science fiction films... and that thing. Where is the justification for this totally pointless, and yet nonetheless infuriating decision?
If you need me, I'll be in the angry dome.
Hah, you wish! (Score:2, Funny)
Something Special About 2006 (Score:5, Interesting)
Other than "We ran out of other good nominees", why is 2006 a good year to recognize this particular group?
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What no Bender? (Score:5, Interesting)
What no Bender? Go nominate him! (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.robothalloffame.org/nominate.php [robothalloffame.org]
Bender is currently at ~ 7% -- I think we can do better.
Go Bender! Go Bender!
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David Duchovny [wikipedia.org] missed out, too.
It's a stupid award (Score:5, Insightful)
Back when the Computer Museum was in Boston, there was a robot exhibit. And, up there on a platform, were most of the early famous robots. Shakey. The Hopkins Beast. The Stanford Arm. Those are real winners. Gort is a costume. This "award" is an embarassment to the field.
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"The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics." - Robot Hall of Fame [robothalloffame.org]
Science Fiction is often the inspiration behind the sciences, the field of Robotics is no different. Science Fiction can help us better imagine how robots might interact with society, what values might they bring to our lives. Why is it wrong to remember the dreamers along with the doers?
Agreed! Distinction is needed. (Score:1)
The first are skilled and proven fighters, the second was an infuential force in the community, and the last was a character in a movie.
Make these seperate freakin' categories. Duh.
Work Bots, Play Bots, Fictional Bots. Then induct one or three per category, per year. Lumping them all together is ridiculous. In fact
Meh.... Your argument is a bit flawed (Score:2)
Let's face the facts. Robotics has always been a field that had significant influence between in both the real world and in our creative minds. Remember the word robot was borrowed from a play. Also, if you were to completely discount so
I have a totally cool idea... (Score:3, Funny)
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where's Chin-Killa? (Score:1)
EVERY VOTE COUNTS (Score:2)
May I suggest BENDER BENDING RODRIGUEZ [killbots.com]
I mean, come one people, he leads the current poll with 41% of the vote. [slashdot.org] And it's a biased poll, there is a ringer robot from the future named Cowboy Neal!
WTF? (Score:3, Insightful)
The problem with Marvin is... (Score:2, Funny)
Gort? (Score:1)
I Nominate (Score:4, Funny)
They are, after all, protecting us from the Terrible Secret of Space.
Bagle (Score:1, Offtopic)
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In summary:
CIT = Engineering, SCS = Computer Science. They both have completely separate admissions departments and curiculums, and transfering from one department to the other is just has hard as trasfering from one university to another (if you are accpeted by both). Carnegie Mellon University has born several names, but has never been called CIT, the current name of the Engineering Department. Carnegie and Mellon were not the same people, but two seperate people. Andrew Carnegie foun
Data! (Score:1)
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Well if yer gonna let Data in, then we need to let Daleks in, too. Yes, I know, they're more like little green blobs driving salt-shaker-tanks, but
*walks away*
I probably... should have thought that through a little better..
Re:Data! - The idiot. (Score:1)
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Other robots forgotten (Score:1)
For that matter, what about Robbie from "Forbidden Planet?"
And R. Daneel Olivaw? And Questor? (re:sex - "I am fully functional." He said it BEFORE Data did).
Hmmmm....this smells like a rigged election. Maybe the Dan Quayle robot should be questioned...oh wait, he was "upgraded" to the G.W. Bush robot.
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Robby is in, plus a few more (Score:2)
Main inductees page is here [robothalloffame.org]. Click the ultra-light grey link in the sidebar to see the 2003 inductees.
Astroboy is also in. Not terribly knowledgeable regarding the character or its impact, but I've heard him mentioned enough that I can't argue his place there. R2-D2 and C-3PO are in as well.
Then there's one last science fiction member: HAL 9000. All these years, I could've sworn he was a computer... but, well.
Can anyone explain what HAL is doing there?
Why HAL is listed (Score:1)
Notable Omission (Score:1)
These days, the robot would have sounded an Amber Alert everytime Will went somewhere unsupervised with Doctor Smith.
Disgraceful (Score:1)
What? (Score:1)
What no Roomba ? (Score:4, Insightful)
It's FUTURA, not Maria! (Score:2)
Maria was the human that Futura impersonated. Holy shit, these idiots can't do a minimum amount of research!
A much more interesting read... (Score:1)
Metropolis (Score:1)
Number Five is alive! (Score:3, Funny)
Stephanie! [imdb.com]
Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five [imdb.com] thread also.
C-3PO (Score:2)
MST3K (Score:1)