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Post by elphie on Feb 15, 2009 19:49:13 GMT -5
Oh, me too.
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Post by Firefly on Feb 15, 2009 20:48:45 GMT -5
Sorry, I don't remember that part. But then again, I do forget thing. VERY often.
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Post by karr09 on May 23, 2009 9:33:41 GMT -5
actually the word robot originates from the czech republic. quoted from wikipedia: "The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Èapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920.[14] The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids and clones, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.
However, Karel Èapek himself did not coin the word; he wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Èapek, as its actual originator.[14] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboøi (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages.[15] Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Èapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known.[16][17]
The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined (albeit accidentally) by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov."
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Post by elphie on May 23, 2009 9:55:49 GMT -5
d**n KARR. You're better at finding information than I am.
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Post by Cloris on May 23, 2009 11:44:50 GMT -5
lol
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Post by Firefly on May 23, 2009 21:19:11 GMT -5
lol
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