Carnegie Mellon Adds 4 Bots to Robot Hall of Fame
- By Paul McCloskey
- 05/21/07
Carnegie Mellon University inducted four robots into its Robot Hall of Fame, including a hopping robot; the first car to drive itself across the country; a kit that enables anyone to build a robot; and the android Data from
Star Trek
.
Officially, the four inductees are Raibert Hopper, the NavLab 5 self-steering vehicle, the LEGO Mindstorms kit, and Lieutenant Commander Data from
Star Trek
.
The new inductees join the incumbent Hall of Famers, a list that includes the Mars Pathfinder Rover, the HAL 9000 robot from the movie
2001: a Space Odyssey
, and Honda's ASIMO robot.
The Hall of Fame was started in 2003.
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Paul McCloskey is contributing editor of Syllabus.