KITT among WIRED Magazine's "50 Best Robots Ever"

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KITT among WIRED Magazine's "50 Best Robots Ever"

Post by Nexus » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:31 pm

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/robots.html

Near the bottom at #48, right before HAL 9000. (but we all know he's #1 in our books, right? ;))
The smooth-talking, self-driving muscle car from the early '80s TV drama Knight Rider was so cool, it even upstaged David Hasselhoff. The success of this Trans-Am helped to usher in a new genre of show with supervehicles as heroes, from Airwolf to Stealth.

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Post by FuzzieDice » Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:42 am

Glad to see KITT still recognized. :)

I'm not at all shocked that Stanley made #1. But they should have put Asimo in there not just as a mere mention of it's predecessor P2. The latest Asimo is definitely really awesome!

I hope Stanley runs in the 2006 DARPA (I assume they will have it again this year?)

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Post by Lyn » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:11 am

I'd seen other shows with robots, but I think KITT's still a good favorite of mine, since KITT is both a car and a robot, as it were, even if the robot part of KITT was mainly a computer.
Uh, so were the other robots featured in the list.... :kittconv: :shock: 8) :wink: :lol:

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Post by Arroww' » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:38 am

:kittx: only 48th???? :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I'm so angry! :evil: :evil: :evil: :x :x :x

KITT is the first and KARR :karr: the second!!!!!!!!!! :roll: 8)

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