About the Robot Hall of Fame®
The Robot Hall of Fame® was established in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science to recognize landmark achievements in robotics technology and to create a broader awareness of the contributions that robots and roboticists make to science and society.
From the beginning, the Robot Hall of Fame has honored robots both of science and of science fiction – the robots of metal and silicon that embody technical and scientific innovation as well as the imagined robots that excite audiences about what the future may hold and inspire roboticists to greater achievements.
The Robot Hall of Fame initially had only an online presence. Many notable robots inducted into the hall no longer exist, are inaccessible (such as Mars rovers), or only ever existed in ink or on film. In 2009, however, Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh incorporated a Robot Hall of Fame display into roboworld™, the world's largest permanent robotics exhibit.
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 seeks to be inclusive of the entire robotics community and strives to be representative of the best ideas and the best technologies in robotics.
The Robot Hall of Fame® is sponsored by:
