The word robot made its debut in 1921, in the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek. It comes from the word "robota", a Czech term for forced labour. But definitions of what a robot ...
A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New ...
"Today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of ...