The Robot Hall of Fame was established in 2003 by the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. It is designed to honor achievements in robotics technology and to create a broader awareness of the contributions that robots and robotics make in science and society. Since its inception, the Robot Hall of Fame has honored robots from both science and science fiction – the robots that embody technical and scientific innovation, as well as the imagined conceptual robots that excite and inspire audiences about what the future may hold in greater achievements in robotics. The first induction ceremony was held at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh on November 10, 2003.
Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute, the world’s largest robotics research and education institution, has provided technical guidance for the Robot Hall of Fame and the university’s Entertainment Technology Center has developed innovative ways to present these robots to a broad audience. But the Robot Hall of Fame aims to include the entire robotics community and strives to be representative of the best ideas and the best technologies in robotics.
In 2009, the Robot Hall of Fame gained a physical presence at the Roboworld exhibit at the Carnegie Science Center. Hailed as the largest permanent robotics exhibit in the United States, Roboworld allows guests to interact and learn about robots through different themed areas. The Hall of Fame features interactive exhibits developed by graduate students at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center.
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“Let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”
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