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The first use of the word "robot" was in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written in 1920 and first performed in Czechoslovakia in 1921, in New York City in 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses ...
"Maschinenmensch" from the 1927 film Metropolis. Statue in Babelsberg, Germany. This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium. It includes all depictions of robots, androids and gynoids in literature, television, and cinema; however, robots that have appeared in more than one form of media are not necessarily listed in each of those media.
The Birth of the Robot, inspired by the Čapek play, was performed at Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, Brazil. It utilized actual robots on stage interacting with the human actors. [44] Director James Kerwin's 1960s-style short film R.U.R.: Genesis — starring Chase Masterson and Kipleigh Brown and loosely based upon the Čapek play—was shot in ...
Toggle Literature subsection. 1.1 Before 1920. 1.2 1920s. 1.3 1930s. ... First Contact (and series Star ... Robot from Lost in Space (2018) 2020s
Tik-Tok is a fictional "mechanical man" from the Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum. [1] He has been termed "the prototype robot", [2] and is widely considered to be one of the first robots to appear in modern literature, [3] though the term "Robot" was not used until the 1920s, in the play R.U.R.
Daneel is a robot built by Roj Nemennuh Sarton and Han Fastolfe, who are Spacer roboticists from the planet Aurora, in the year 4920 AD. [12] Although designed and built by Auroran roboticists, Daneel was constructed on Earth. He is the first humanoid, or "humaniform," robot ever constructed and is outwardly indistinguishable from a human being.
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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.