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Re: I Robot
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Originally Posted by Adam Y.
And your mistaken if it's only been used recently. The word robot originated from a very old play where robots take over human kind.
"Rossums Universal Robots", written by Czech playwrite Karel Capek and first performed in 1920 (although there is a competing theory that it was actually written by his brother, and Karel Capek was willingly given credit). Anyway, "pppfffttt!!" from all of us that are old enough to think that 1920 wouldn't make it a "very old play."

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