HAL Institute

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HAL Institute
HAL Institute.jpg
LocationNew New York, Earth
First appearance"Insane in the Mainframe" (3ACV11)
Episode

The HAL Institute is an asylum for criminally insane robots. Doctors and nurses use shocks of electricity to calm down their patients during interviews with psychiatrists. For a brief portion of time, Fry was admitted to the hospital after being found guilty of aiding in a bank robbery.

Known Patients Admitted

Patient Admitted for/Condition
Bender Plead insanity during trail, after being framed by Roberto.
Fry Same reason as above, except admitted to HAL Institute as the human insanity facility was full, due to Judge Whitey considered homeless a mental illness.
Malfunctioning Eddie His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out really to be insane.
Roberto For holding up the same bank twice, and was deemed insane as a result.
Unit 2013 Thinks he is human.
Hair Robot Got too obsessed with his hair.
Pay 'n' Chew Robot Does not really appear to be insane, but rather ill.
Norm Receives transmissions from the CIA on his teeth.
Frankie Thinks he works in a lunchroom, so they put him to work in the Institute's lunchroom.
Lincolnbot While he does think he is Abraham Lincoln, he has split personalities, all of them Lincoln. His comment may suggest his personalities split is up to 200.
Mad Hatterbot From Alex in Wonderland, his insanity is obvious.

Additional Info

Trivia

  • The Institute is named after HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey who was a insane robot himself.

Appearances