A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot reflect a modernity once skewered by the writer.

With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this really true? Take the word ‘robot’ for example, ...

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Jan. 25, 2021, marks a special centennial: The 100th anniversary of a word. It’s one that already existed, but it took on a new meaning in a work of fiction. 1920: Czechoslovakian Author Karel Čapek ...

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Co-founder & CEO at InOrbit, a leading data management platform for autonomous robots, and co-founder of Robot Operations Group. Modern robots are awesome, but they’re also infamous for getting into ...

Exactly one hundred years ago, a play premiered that introduced a significant new word to the world – robot. When the first production of Karel Čapek's R.U.R. opened on January 25, 1921, at the ...