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Happy Birthday liebe Roboter.[1]

"... robots are a common theme in modern fiction, but not many people realize that the robot was born in Prague exactly 85 years ago ... Karel Capek was one of the great writers of inter-war Czechoslovakia. His play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) coined the term to describe human-like androids that perform mundane, repetitive labor. In 1921 the play opened right here in Prague and introduced robots to the world... "

[1] http://www.radio.cz/en/article/79408