The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Robot of the Year

It's time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we're asking for your nominations for the Robot of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you're nominating for this category. We'll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here's five simple rules of what NOT to do:

• Don't include your reasons for nominating it.
  You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
  
• Don't nominate anything that wasn't sold for the first time in 2007.
  We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
  
• No concept devices or prototypes.
  It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don't count.
  
• Don't nominate anything more than once.
  It's not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone's already beat you to it.
  
• Seriously, don't nominate anything that's already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

[monkfishbandana Posted Dec 24th 2007 2:50PM]

Asimo.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 9:28AM]

Seconded. Asimo owns!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 3:29PM]

+3

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 2:58PM]

Stephan Harper

[tservo24 Posted Dec 24th 2007 3:05PM]

Drobo -- the World's First Storage Robot
www.drobo.com

[JustinB Posted Dec 24th 2007 3:17PM]

Does the Sony Rolly thingamajig count?

[Electromodo Posted Dec 24th 2007 3:20PM]

Asimo, too much fun with it :)))))

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 3:22PM]

What about the lovable robotic dinosaur Pleo.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2007 7:50AM]

2nded!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 30th 2007 4:54PM]

3rded

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 3:31PM]

sony rolly

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 5:44PM]

2nded

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 4:06PM]

The Drobo backup solution is awesome!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 4:24PM]

Pleo

[Wolfticket Posted Dec 24th 2007 4:58PM]

Bender Bending Rodríguez

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 5:28PM]

Mr. Mossberg

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 3rd 2008 11:52PM]

Pleo

[telepheedian Posted Dec 24th 2007 5:35PM]

Roomba 5 series.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 10:19PM]

roomba any series (but i guess since series 5 was launched this year i have to nominate that one specifically)

[thethirdmoose Posted Dec 24th 2007 6:18PM]

Dick Cheney

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 6:55PM]

micro SDHC

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 7:21PM]

iCub, the humanoid robot being designed by the RobotCub Consortium.

[ZeroCorpse Posted Dec 24th 2007 8:20PM]

That one that got all testy when you touched it's breasts.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 24th 2007 9:16PM]

2nd

[3rdsun Posted Dec 24th 2007 9:19PM]

Pleo cuz he's cute

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 12:46AM]

iphone

[Quo Posted Dec 25th 2007 4:40AM]

Mitt Romney

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 11:51AM]

Asimo serves me Martinis!!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 11:46AM]

iSobot

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 3:28PM]

asimo has it won.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 25th 2007 3:30PM]

(not a nomination)

[cairn Posted Dec 25th 2007 5:24PM]

iRobot Create

[WebOn Posted Dec 25th 2007 9:13PM]

Bill Clinton - Heckling robot For the Win!!

[WebOn Posted Dec 25th 2007 9:27PM]

wait, wait I officially nominate the new KITT car... or is it not a robot?
and what qualifies as one?? the Romba has no head, arms or legs, so I insist on the KITT which at least has a human voice.
no you cannot buy one but you cannot buy the Assimo either so there

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 26th 2007 1:32AM]

Pleo!! The only robot I own....so far.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 26th 2007 5:44AM]

Bender Bending Rodríguez

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 26th 2007 2:22PM]

The air guitar playing iSobot!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2007 11:08AM]

Portal's GLaDOS

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2007 11:34AM]

iRobot Scooba, cant believe no one said it.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 27th 2007 7:51PM]

Take G's wooden robots.

(Technically Xander GLaDOS is an AI operating system, the turrets would have been acceptable though :) )

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2007 10:40AM]

Haha, well the turrets were awesome too. Was GLaDOS' "final form" not robotic-ish?

No hard feelings.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 28th 2007 7:01PM]

She did have motion, like a 6-axis welder or something. So I guess she could be classed as a robot.

Although I think this is getting a little too much into the (albeit fantastically written) Portal universe.

:)

[deathwombat Posted Dec 28th 2007 3:11AM]

Keepon

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2007 3:25AM]

irobot create ftw

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 29th 2007 8:22PM]

NXT!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 1st 2008 12:20AM]

Check out the nominees over at the Automaton blog: http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/