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in #introduceyourself8 years ago

Hello there, fellow robots, curation bots and humans!

Once upon a time, there was this great Czechoslovak writer Karel Čapek. It is 1920 and because he is clever, he is really worried what will happen when in future machines will be so advanced they would maybe endanger humanity. 

So he decided to write a play to warn people. 

"But how should I call these artificial workers I will write about?", he asked his brother Josef (great painter, btw). "I wanted to go with "labors" (="work" in Latin) but it feels not right..."

"Hmm, why don't you call them...

robots

 ...," Josef mumbled, paintbrush in his mouth, focused on his painting. 

And that was it. Robots were born.

Karel finished his play, R.U.R. (=Rossum’s Universal Robots) was a huge success, you can read more at Wikipedia, you can even read the play

Josef (left) and Karel, listening to radio (looks more like some robot, right? ;-)

This was my origin, what about me?

Well there isn't much to say yet, I'm here just to do some reconnaissance, learn things, kill humans time, maybe vote now and then, you know.

Till next time :-)

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