Carnegie Mellon University inducts five more robots to the Robots Hall of Fame

New robots inducted are Maria, David, Gort, AIBO and SCARA

The Carnegie Mellon University Robot Hall of Fame has inducted several new robots during a ceremony in June this year.

Five robots have been included in the Carnegie Mellon University Robots Hall of Fame ranging from an iconic female humanoid in a classic silent film to a ubiquitous industrial robot that helped make electronics inexpensive.

The inductees include Maria, the art deco star of Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis" and Gort, the metallic giant from an alien world in the 1951 sci-fi thriller "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Other robots who were provileged to enter the Hall of Fame are David, the boy-like android that stole his adoptive mother's heart in Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: AI; AIBO, Sony's dog-like robot pet that is also a robust research and teaching tool; and the Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm (SCARA), which is a specially designed industrial arm for assembling consumer products.

Dan Kara, president of Robotics Trends, said "The inclusion of real-world robots, such as AIBO and the SCARA industrial arm, mapped very well to the 'business ready' theme of the RoboBusiness Conference, while their fictional counterparts Gort, David and Maria spoke to the imagination — perhaps the most important driver for what has been called the first new industry of the 21st century."

The Hall of Fame was founded by James H. Morris who was the dean of Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science in 2003. The Robots Hall of Fame also features past inductees like the Mars Pathfinder rover, Honda's ASIMO walking robot and the "Star Wars" duo of R2-D2 and C-3PO.

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