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Vote for Robot Hall of Fame 2012 inductees

David Pescovitz at 11:15 am Thu, Aug 23, 2012

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Carnegie Mellon University, curators of the "Robot Hall of Fame" (online and at Carnegie Science Center), has opened public voting for its 2012 Robot Hall of Fame inductees. Nominees are broken down in several categories and feature real and fictional bots, from iRobot's "Create" platform to Rosie the Robot Maid to the Internet video darling BigDog robotic pack mule. Robot Hall of Fame (via CNN)

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  • Over the River

    It isn’t to find, but the survey is here:

    https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RHoFPublic 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wolfgang-Beer/100002349933716 Wolfgang Beer

    i would vote for this silicon color changing creature: 
    http://www.smartlab.at/color-changing-pneumatic-moving-silicon-robot-creature

  • franko

    i heard the Curiosity rover isn’t on the list. is this true? ’tis a glaring omission, if so.