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In 1921, Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek premiered a controversial play about man-made robots.
George Heymont: Will Robotics Take the Art Out of Artificial Intelligence? George Heymont 2010
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In 1921, Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek premiered a controversial play about man-made robots.
George Heymont: Will Robotics Take the Art Out of Artificial Intelligence? George Heymont 2010
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In 1921, Czechoslovakian playwright Karel Capek premiered a controversial play about man-made robots.
George Heymont: Will Robotics Take the Art Out of Artificial Intelligence? George Heymont 2010
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It was first used in a 1920 Czech play called RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek and first came into English in Paul Selver's 1923 translation.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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It was first used in a 1920 Czech play called RUR, Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek and first came into English in Paul Selver's 1923 translation.
Science Fiction's Vital Contribution To The Life Of English 2009
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CHAPTER 4: THE POET AND “THE PRINCE” 1. Karel Capek, Amerikanismus Prague, 1926, originally published as a letter to the New York Times on Sunday, April 29, 1926.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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CHAPTER 4: THE POET AND “THE PRINCE” 1. Karel Capek, Amerikanismus Prague, 1926, originally published as a letter to the New York Times on Sunday, April 29, 1926.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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São, os avós de Maria de Metropolis, dos robots de Karel Capek - escritor checo considerado o inventor do termo Robot na sua peça R.U.R., ou do Robbie de Asimov.
Imitações de Vida Artur 2007
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The only other non-English SF authors I can think of who are not that hard to find are Karel Capek and Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.
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Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term "robota" means "forced labor" in Czech in 1921, we have imagined what robots could do.
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