Apr 21
Roomba, Terminator Named Robot Hall of Fame Inductees
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Pop open the champagne and pour your hardworking robot vacuum a glass–it’s now a Robot Hall of Fame Inductee.
iRobot’s seven-year-old Roomba is one of five in the class of 2010 inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame, along with NASA’s Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the DaVinci Medical Robot System, Huey, Dewey and Louie from the 1971 Bruce Dern film “Silent Running and the T-800 Terminator from James Cameron’s 1984 film “The Terminator”. A brainchild of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, the Hall of Fame, according to a university spokesman, “recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and embodied breakthrough accomplishments in robotics.”
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