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
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Bender |
Plead insanity during trail for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted again for being unable to differentiate fantasy from reality.
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Fry |
Plead insanity during trail for bank robbery, after being framed by Roberto. Admitted to HAL Institute as the human insanity facility was full, due to Judge Whitey considering homelessness a mental illness.
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Malfunctioning Eddie |
His explosion problem got worse, and his prices turned out really to be insane.
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Roberto |
For holding up the same bank twice, and was deemed insane as a result. But it was later revealed that he was intentionally built to be an insane robot.
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Unit 2013 |
Thinks he is human.
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Hair Robot |
Got too obsessed with his hair.
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Pay 'n' Chew Robot |
Does not really appear to be insane, but rather ill.
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Norm |
Receives transmissions from the CIA on his teeth.
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Frankie |
Thinks he works in a lunchroom, so they put him to work in the Institute's lunchroom.
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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. Robot Lincoln is mentioned in Bender's Game. It is unknown if they are the same robot.
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Mad Hatterbot |
From Alice in Wonderland, his insanity is obvious.
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Rosie the Robot Maid |
Started believing that everything must be clean, murdering Astro and Elroy because they were dirty.
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Teabot Robot |
Unknown. Was shattered during hammer therapy.
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