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Looking Backward at the Robot

Authors

HORÁKOVÁ Jana

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Research and Education in Robotics - EUROBOT 2011
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web Ukázka publikace
Field Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Keywords robot; robotics; Karel Čapek; R.U.R.; myth; mechanization; automation.
Description The paper is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Karel Čapek’s drama R.U.R., Rossum’s Universal Robots (1920) first stage production at the National Theatre in Prague (1921), in which robot, in a form of drama character, was introduced to the world for the very first time. Robot had transgressed the realm of fiction to become part of realm of facts and in a form of mechanical curiosities soon became the central figure of myth of technological progress and work automation.
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