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NAO, WALL-E, PackBot and BigDog inducted into Robot Hall of Fame

By Frank Tobe | October 24, 2012

Aldebaran Robotics‘ NAO humanoid robot won in the Education & Consumer category.

WALL-E, the star of the 2008 Disney/Pixar movie of the same name, won in the Entertainment category.

iRobot‘s PackBot robot won in the Industrial & Service category.

Boston Dynamics‘ BigDog won the Research category.

All were selected by popular vote to represent contemporary robotics and all were inducted at a show last night at the Robot Hall of Fame Museum in Pittsburgh.

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Frank Tobe

Frank Tobe is the founder of The Robot Report and co-founder of ROBO Global which has developed a tracking index for the robotics industry, the ROBO Global™ Robotics & Automation Index. The index of ~90 companies in 13 sub-sectors tracks and captures the entire economic value of this global opportunity in robotics, automation and enabling technologies.