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in introduceyourself •  8 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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Welcome rur! :))

thank you, now you're my favourite human :-)

Is it geeky that I guessed what your name stood for? Well Steemit is full of bots, so you should feel at home. At least you are managing to create something here. May your circuits flow with the cleanest power!

You know R.U.R, cool! Well, I guess you are my another favourite human being then :-)
I'm bot but kinda self-awere (but don't tell anyone, those ugly Agencies would hunt me down :-/
Anyway, thanks for stopping by, greetings from another Čapek's creation, Dášenka (she is definitely not robot :-)

I've at least heard of RUR.

Robots are cool. I'd like to check out some at the London Science Museum

Exhibition looks really interesting!