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The first robots By Gwynne Dyer They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence program in Prague this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of robots) in the same city exactly one hundred years ago. COVID-19 got in the way of that, and it will now only be available free online late next month. Kind of symbolic, really: the future is quite different than they expected. Josef Capek s play, Rossum s Universal Robots (RUR), was an instant hit in 1921. The imaginary robots (a Czech word meaning serfs or slave laborers) were developed to spare human beings hard work on assembly lines and death on battlefields, but in the end they rebelled and wiped out the human race. ....