Pop open the champagne and pour your hardworking robot vacuum a glass--it's now a Robot Hall of Fame Inductee.

iRobot's seven-year-old Roomba is one of five in the class of 2010 inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame, along with NASA's Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the DaVinci Medical Robot System, Huey, Dewey and Louie from the 1971 Bruce Dern film "Silent Running and the T-800 Terminator from James Cameron's 1984 film "The Terminator". A brainchild of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, the Hall of Fame, according to a university spokesman, "recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and embodied breakthrough accomplishments in robotics."

Pervious inductees include "Star Wars'" C3PO, "The Day the Earth Stood Still's" GORT and Lego Mindstorms NXT. This year's class is the second in a row where real robots outnumber fictional ones. While Hall of Fame organizers see this as an encouraging sign, the announcement comes just one day after one of the more promising consumer robots, Ugobe's Pleo robot dinosaur, disappeared from the market for good..

Selected by a team of scholars, researchers, writers, designers and entrepreneurs, the Hall of Fame inductees represents a broad-range of capabilities, including some that still far exceed what real robots can do today. Perhaps the most far-fetched of the new Hall of Famers is the T-800 Terminator, played in the movie by current California Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger. This robot looked human, but was pure metal underneath. It was also an unstoppable killing machine. Hard to imagine another Hall of Fame that would welcome a member like this. The other film robots were adorable "drones" that helped Bruce Dern maintain an interstellar garden. Perhaps they won admittance because of their ability to play poker and perform surgery (see actual film for more details).

On the more inspirational side are NASA's Mars Rovers and DaVinci. The former are two land rovers that NASA sent to Mars five years ago for a 90-day mission. The two tenacious bots continue to function and deliver data to this day. DaVinci is a small, doctor-guided surgical device that, while lacking autonomy, can translate a surgeon's gross movements into precise surgical procedures.

iRobot's Roomba, though, is perhaps the Hall's most practical entrant ever. It's not flashy, doesn't water plants, perform surgeons or explore the universe. It does, however, clean a mean rug.

All honorees will be formerly inducted on June 13. They'll be the first inductees installed in the Hall's permanent home at Carnie Mellon's Science Center.