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From: tc3@cc.gatech.edu (Thomas R. Collins)
Subject: Re: Father of Robotics?
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 04:40:15 GMT
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In article <CKv5qu.F2B@trivia.coginst.uwf.edu>,
Mark J. Mollere <mmollere@abalone.uwf.edu> wrote:
>Am looking for the name of the Father of Robotics, if anyone knows,
>please advise.  Thanx.
>---
>________________________________________________________________


The first use of the term "robot" was in a 1920 play "R. U. R." 
(Rossum's Universal Robots), in which the robots were quite 
capable, more like what science fiction has come to call an 
"android."  The author (and Father of Robotics?) was a 
Czechoslovakian, Karel Capek.

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Thomas R. Collins                         tom.collins@gtri.gatech.edu
Senior Research Engineer
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Georgia Tech Research Institute
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