The 2006 Engadget Awards: Vote for Robot of the Year

Now's your chance to cast your ballot for the 2006 Portable Media Device of the Year! Our Engadget Awards nominees are listed below, and you've got until 11.59PM EST on Sunday, April 15th to file your vote. You can only vote once, so make it count, and may the best tech win! The nominees: Cornell's "conscious", adapting robot, Lego Mindstorms NXT, Manoi AT01, TMX Tickle Me Elmo, Whitebox Robotics 914 PC Bot, and Wowwee Robosapien RS Media.

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[John @ Apr 10th 2007 2:54PM]

Which one is the one that fell down the stairs? I vote for that one.

[Liqwid @ Apr 10th 2007 3:27PM]

That was the Honda Asimo, and it's not even up there. It's been in development for many years.

[Mike @ Apr 10th 2007 3:26PM]

I vote for the hacked Robosapien with projectile launcher and flamethrower. What a shame that it isn't on the list :(

[andrew @ Apr 10th 2007 5:26PM]

Ryan, I think your description is supposed to say "robot of the year," not portable media device."

[MxSix @ Apr 10th 2007 7:18PM]

I vote for Plen!

[Limor Schweitzer @ Apr 11th 2007 11:09AM]

Manoi has the most advanced design for a kit robot and certainly the coolest looking one since the beginning of the hobby humanoid trend of recent years.
If these were cars instead of robots, this list would be equivalent to : Simca, Fiat, Maserati, Volga, Ford, piaggio

[usagi @ Apr 12th 2007 2:22PM]

but what about the PLEN?

[Matt @ Apr 13th 2007 11:46PM]

I'd have to agree with Limor. The MANOI is the best in this list hands down, but I'm also afraid it's the least heard of. There's some awesome videos of the AT-01 in action if you do a search... will blow your minds!

[Jonathan @ Apr 16th 2007 11:16AM]

Yeah, where is PLEN? I mean how many robots do you know that can freaking skateboard! Come on.