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A “robotic” ought to be chemical, not metal, argues man who coined the phrase
Enlarge (credit score: Getty Photographs) In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the phrase “robotic” in a sci-fi play known as R.U.R. (brief for Rossum’s Common Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum factors out, Čapek