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January 25, 2020 05:12 pm PST
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Today in History 1921: The word 'Robot' enters the English language
On January 25, 1921 the Czech play Rossum's Universal Robots premiered, entering the word into the Science Fiction, and several of my ex-girlfriend's vocabulary.
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel apek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzln Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).[1] The English phrase "Rossum's Universal Robots" has been used as a subtitle.[2] It premiered on 25 January 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.[3]
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