It’s interesting to watch the changes in design since robots were first introduced in the early 1900s, and also to revisit this part of the sci-fi universe. Maybe you’ve forgotten some of them already, or perhaps there are some you have never heard of.
Fun fact: The word “robot” was invented by Czech painter and writer Josef Čapek early in the 20th Century. The story goes something like this: Čapek’s brother Karel, also a writer, was working on a novel about a company that invents and manufactures sentient machines that look like humans. Karel was struggling to find a name for such a machine and intended to call it “labor” as it is the Latin word for... well... labor.
