HAL Institute

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 wrongly being found guilty of aiding in a bank robbery.

Known Employees

 * Dr. Perceptron, Doctor of Freudian Circuit Analysis
 * Nurse Ratchet, Nurse

Trivia
* The birds could also be in reference to the title of the 1962 novel "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
 * The Institute is named after from 2001: A Space Odyssey who was an insane artificial intelligence.
 * Birds can be seen flying above the HAL Institute sign to represent cartoonish 'seeing stars'.