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Famous or Infamous Robots (fiction or nonfiction)

NOTE: Karel Čapek coined the term 'robot' which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1921. Karel credited his brother, Josef Čapek, as the true inventor of the word. (excerpt from Wikipedia)

thanks to users 'fbharjo' & 'rolig' for bringing this to my attention!

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  • marky an interesting article: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-asimov-robots-twenty-years-death.html Apr 9, 2012

  • marky related news : Best Robots of 2009 Dec 24, 2009

  • marky unless he faked his death and secretly flew into outer space to build a secret army of robots to come back and attack us with his 'legion of ninja battlebots'


    NAAAA. Dec 8, 2009

  • pterodactyl Karel Čapek not a robot? Well, sure, that's what he wants you to think... Dec 8, 2009

  • marky hi rolig and fbharjo. He doesn't belong on the list if he's not a robot.
    But I will move him to the comments and give him a small write up and link. Dec 7, 2009

  • rolig Wait a sec. Karel Čapek wasn't a robot; he just invented the word. Dec 7, 2009

  • ruzuzu I was going to add daleks, but they're only half robot (I think). Dec 7, 2009

  • marky WALL-E! That's the one I forgot.. thanks! Dec 7, 2009