Assembly Lines: Carnegie Mellon Inducts Robots Into Hall of Fame

PITTSBURGH-Carnegie Mellon University inducted the first group of four robots into its Robot Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Carnegie Science Center.

They were the Unimate, the first industrial robot; the Sojourner robot from NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission; R2D2, the "droid" from the Star Wars films; and HAL-9000, the rogue computer from the film "2001: A Space Odyssey."

The Robot Hall of Fame was established to honor real and fictional robots, along with their creators, in recognition of the benefits robots bring to society. The goal is to create a permanent, interactive robot exhibition that will educate and entertain audiences.

The robots fall into two categories-robots from science and robots from science fiction. A panel of experts, each serving a 2-year term, will choose robots in each category to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

The next selection of robots for induction into the Robot Hall of Fame is scheduled to take place in conjunction with the 25th anniversary celebration of Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute on Oct. 13-16, 2004.

The ASSEMBLY Show South

ASSEMBLY is thrilled to return to the Music City Center in Nashville, TN for The ASSEMBLY Show SOUTH on May 1-2, 2024. This is a booming time for manufacturing and the U.S. South is right in the heart of the action. According to ASSEMBLY’s most recent annual capital spending survey, the South is projected to account for 31 percent of total spending this year, marking the fifth straight year this region has accounted for at least 30 percent of capital spending in the U.S.

In this session, manufacturers will learn how Quality function deployment (QFD) can transform consumers’ qualitative demands into quantitative parameters that will shape the design of their product and, ultimately, their manufacturing process.

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