Karel Čapek
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Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts and play R.U.R., which introduced the word r
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House of the Brothers Čapek in Prague 10, Vinohrady
Tomb of Karel Čapek and Olga Scheinpflugová at Vyšehrad cemetery
Karel Čapek's handwriting
Robot
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A robot is a machine, especially one programmable via a computer, capable of automatically carrying out a complex series of actions. A robot can be guided by an external or internal control device. Ro
Karel Čapek
…for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned…
ASIMO (2000) at the Expo 2005
Articulated welding robots used in a factory are a type of industrial robot.
A hypothetical reconstruction of Philo's automatic robot servant (3rd century BCE) in the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, Athens, Greece
Su Song's astronomical clock tower showing the mechanical figurines which chimed the hours