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From: mmollere@abalone.uwf.edu (Mark J. Mollere)
Subject: Re: Father of Robotics?
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Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 20:47:31 GMT
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In article 954@cc.gatech.edu, tc3@cc.gatech.edu (Thomas R. Collins) writes:
>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.

When the play was translated to English, the word "robot" was kept
as is [a Czech/Slovak word meaning "worker"]. 
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