Where Do Robots Come From?
The first robots were born on January 25, 1921, the day Karl Capek‘s play R.U.R. premiered in Prague, more than 80 years before Skynet achieved sentience and declared, “I think, therefore you’re all toast.” R.U.R. introduced audiences to the term “robot” (from the Czech word “robota,” meaning labor or servitude), and gave humanity its first…
