‘Droids vs. robots…

I have many complaints about the Star Wars and Star Trek movies. For the first, I’ve mentioned before in this blog that it’s really fantasy, although many fans and critics call it sci-fi. But let’s forget about that glaring disconnect and focus on something that Dr. Asimov would probably have liked cleared up: ‘Droids vs. robots.

“Robot” is the more general term. It wasn’t created by the inimitable Isaac but by Karel Capek in his 1920 play RUR (for Rossum’s Universal Robots, the English subtitle...