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100 Years Later, The Future Of Robots Still Lies In Science Fiction – Forbes
100 years ago, the term and concept of robots entered our consciousness. What has changed since? What’s to come? Science fiction always has the answers.
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Every year there is some version of this remembrance on the internet, dated January 25th and full of science fiction references and doom-saying. This is the 2021 version. Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first use of the term “robot” to describe a non-human, artificial being. Today’s robots are built a bit different, but nonetheless, there’s history to be heard.
The robots as named in Karel Capek’s 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)…
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