In his 1920 play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Capek coined the word robot, jumping off of the Czech word robota, which means “forced labor.” Here are some interesting robot firsts. First movie robot: A female robot named Maria is a main character in the 1927 silent science-fiction film Metropolis. That marks the first […]
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Published on August 29, 2019 00:00