<![CDATA[io9: R.u.r.]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: R.u.r.]]> http://io9.com/tag/r.u.r. http://io9.com/tag/r.u.r. <![CDATA[A Story About Computer Failure Came Before The First Robot Conquest Story]]> This year is the 100th anniversary of the first story about the Internet going wrong. E.M. Forster (better known for A Passage To India) wrote "The Machine Stops" in 1909, and you can read it online. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5407043&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Will We Finally Get a Truly Great Robot Epic?]]> Rumor has it that production has begun on a film version of R.U. R., the Czech play where the word "robot" was invented. It's about genetic engineering and robot rebellion, and it could be the best robot movie ever. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5297054&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Where Do Robots Come From?]]> The first robots were born on January 25, 1921, the day Karl Capek's play R.U.R. premiered in Prague, more than 80 years before Skynet achieved sentience and declared, "I think, therefore you're all toast." More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5260195&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today]]> Today is the 70th anniversary of science fiction on television. On Feb. 11, 1938, the BBC broadcast its adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R., about androids that rise up against their human creators. Capek's play is the origin of the word "robot," which comes from the Slovak work "robota," meaning work. [ComicMix] More »
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