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A trumpet-playing Toyota robot. The history of robots has its origins in the ancient world. During the Industrial Revolution, humans developed the structural engineering capability to control electricity so that machines could be powered with small motors. In the early 20th century, the notion of a humanoid machine was developed.
The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word "robot" was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.
He was named by his brother as the true inventor of the term robot. [2] [3] As a cartoonist, he worked for Lidové noviny, a newspaper based in Prague. His illustrated stories Povídání o Pejskovi a Kočičce (English translation as The Adventures of Puss and Pup [4]) are considered classics of Czech children's literature.
The concept of robots as forced labor dates back at least as far as the word robot itself — so, too, does the notion of a robotic uprising. ‘Robot’ was coined 100 years ago, in a play ...
"R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, [1] a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). [2] The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové; [3] it introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. [4]
The word robot was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor. Polarography was invented by Jaroslav Heyrovský in 1922. [6] Cabin motorcycle (Dálník) was invented by Jan Anderle during 1930s. [7] [8]
The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. [1] Named robots in the play are Marius, Sulla, Radius, Primus, Helena, and ...
The word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. The term "robotics" was coined by Isaac Asimov in his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!" [3] Articles related to robotics include: