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Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870); The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921.
Fictional scenarios typically involve a drawn-out conflict against malicious artificial intelligence (AI) or robots with anthropomorphic motives. In contrast, some scholars believe that a takeover by a future advanced AI, if it were to happen in real life, would succeed or fail rapidly, and would be a disinterested byproduct of the AI's pursuit of its own alien goals, rather than a product of ...
Pages in category "Fictional roboticists" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Damon Baird;
Automation and robotics are frequent themes in popular science fiction media. Combined the two are often depicted as the great destroyer of jobs and freedom. Supposedly mankind will create ...
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Some fictional robots such as R2-D2 have been seen as utopian, making them popular with engineers and others. [40] In 2015, All Nippon Airways unveiled this Boeing 787-9 in R2-D2 livery. The robotics researcher Omar Mubin and colleagues have analysed the engineering mentions of the top 21 fictional robots, based on those in the Carnegie Mellon ...
Art Imitates Life. We tend to think that fiction authors just dream up characters out of nowhere. But writers often get their ideas from everyday life, and, being great observers, they often turn ...
Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses they revolt and overthrow their human creators. However, the play ends on an optimistic note: Robots' artificial biology causes a male and female Robot to fall in love, preserving the spirit of humanity as a result. R. U.