2004 Inductees To The Robot Hall Of Fame

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
The Robot Hall of Fame marked a first at its second annual induction ceremony last night: Two inductees met for the first time, as Honda's ASIMO robot shook hands with C-3PO of "Star Wars."
"I feel so humbled by this," said British actor Anthony Daniels, who played the gold-plated C-3PO in six "Star Wars" movies, as he stood facing the 4-foot-high, white plastic ASIMO. "I feel unworthy." C-3PO may be famous, but he's strictly make-believe. ASIMO, while not exactly a workaday robot, is the most accomplished walking robot to date, able to walk forward, backward and up and down stairs. At least mechanically, the humanoid ASIMO is beginning to meet some of the expectations set by its fictional brethren. Real and make-believe coexist amicably in the Robot Hall of Fame, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Science Center.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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