Science in Science-Fiction: Robots, Androids and Gynoids, Oh My!

Posted on Friday, November 20th, 2015 at 09:17

Time for another Science in Science-Fiction post I think… Let’s see what is this one about? Well, they are mechanical people, their history goes back thousands of years, but they were really made famous when a Czech writer called Karel ?apek wrote an interesting play called R.U.R (or Rossumovi univerzální roboti, or perhaps Rossum’s Universal Robots). That’s right, I’m talking about Robots. Settle in — this is going to be a long one. (more…)