Take the word ‘robot’ for example, which is more commonly used wrongly rather than correctly when going by the definition of the person who coined it: [Karel Čapek]. It was the year 1920 when ...

“Alive” is the eye-opening word here. So far ... futurist and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis really think the humanoid robot ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word "robot" in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum's Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum ...

but it is well known — at least in crossword solving circles — as the work that introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. With the advent of ...

From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.

2. Survey Q #36: “Is ‘monogamy’ absent from the robot word-recognition program?”: Yes: 98.6 percent. Ought to Be: 1.32 percent. Don’t Know: .08 percent. Post-divorce life for humans is ...

“Alive” is the eye-opening word here. Still in doubt? Check out this recently unveiled robot from 1X Technologies, dubbed Neo Gamma. Very human-like, and pretty gender-neutral, the Neo robot ...