SYMHC Classics: Five Historical Robots
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Today we revisit an episode on the technology of yesteryear. Long before Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the term "robot" in his 1920 play "R.U.R.," mechanized creations - automata - were being created without electronics or computers. Many were simple, but they paved the way for the robots of today.
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| 0:35.0 | Uh, okay, true confession. |
| 0:36.6 | Uh, in part, because there is a new Star Wars movie, |
| 0:39.8 | I have droids on the brain really bad. |
| 0:42.3 | So it seemed like a good time to revisit an episode about mankind's early attempts at automata. |
| 0:48.7 | This episode from 2013 looks at five different historical inventions |
| 0:53.8 | that very loosely fall into the discussion of early robotics. |
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| 1:16.3 | And I'm willing to bet Tracy that when you hear the term robot, |
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