Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots (HICIR)
Location	Someplace in Northern Eastern United States
Slogan	You don't have to be crazy to mutter to yourself here, but it helps.
Planet	Earth
Profession	Treat robots deemed insane
First appearance	Insane in the Mainframe

The Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots (HICIR) was an asylum for robots deemed unfit to deal with the general society. Bender and Fry were interred there after they were wrongly found guilty of robbing a bank.

Orientation Edit

Upon entering the facility, patients are sent down a long, winding conveyor belt and subjected to a physical exam. This exam includes:

• Being picked up by a magnet to the main exam area
• An examination of head cavity via a hole drilled into the patient's head
• A gamma ray scan.

Finally patients are diagnosed and evaluated by Dr. Perceptron (Doctor of Freudian Circuit Analysis), and then placed into robot-sized cells in pairs.

Treatments Edit

The HAL institute uses various techniques to treat its patients which range from daily medication disks, to individual and/or group sessions with a doctor, where they are hit in the head with mallets. Dr. Perceptron also uses electro-shock treatments and places patients in situations designed to help them "relax". In extreme cases, patients may undergo a robotomy. It was these "treatments" that cause Fry to go insane and believe he was a robot.

Individuals Edit

Employees Edit

• Dr. Perceptron:Doctor of Freudian Circuit Analysis
• Nurse Ratchet

Patients Edit

• Philip J. Fry
• Bender
• Roberto
• Malfunctioning Eddie
• Unit 2013
• Norm
• Frankie
• Pay'n Chew
• Abraham Lincoln Bot
• Mad Hatter Robot
• Wig bot

References Edit

• The HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots is a reference to HAL 9000, the murderous artificial intelligence in 2001: A Space Odyssey. ^[1]
• As a joke, some birds are flying in a circle over a head.

Appearances Edit

• Insane in the Mainframe
• Bender's Game

Footnotes Edit

1. ↑ 2001: A Space Odyssey