ROBOT 101

ROBOT 101 A Fall 2022 series exploring the past, present, and future of "robot" in imagination and practice

10/02/2022

Coined in 1920 the term “robot” is a newer term in language, and was first used in Czech playwright Karel Capek’s hit R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots. University of Michigan Science Historian and Professor, Howard Markel, has said the word comes from an old Slavic term, rabota, meaning ...

10/02/2022

Michigan Tech University presents Robot101, a series of events aimed at celebrating 101 years of the word robot, which first appeared in Karel Capek's 1920 play, 'Rossum's Universal Robots'.

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