Moley Robotics - The history of robotics In 1920, Karel Capek published his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word “robot.” It was taken from an old Slavic word that
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Petr Očko on X: "To celebrate 100 yrs from invention of the word #robot I read the R.U.R. book by Karel Capek (later in theater, in 1921). Did you know that he
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