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Robots - The Time a Czech Playwright Invented a Word and Accidentally Predicted the Future

Robots - The Time a Czech Playwright Invented a Word and Accidentally Predicted the Future

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 Join Olivia Harper as she traces how Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. introduced the word "robot" and sparked a century of iconic fictional machines. From Metropolis to Wall-E, explore how Asimov's Three Laws, Marvin's melancholy, and movie androids shaped our relationship with artificial beings—revealing these stories were always really about us.

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