the future is coming
Aug. 23rd, 2003 01:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Asimo, a 1.2-meter (4-foot) tall robot designed by Honda, brings flowers to the bust of Czech author and playwrighter Karel Capek in the hall of the National Museum in Prague, Friday, Aug. 22, 2003. Asimo was brought to Prague by visiting Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to pay tribute to Capek, who invented the word 'robot' in his 1921 play 'R.U.R.' (Rossum's Universal Robots). (AP Photo/CTK, Michal Dolezal)
Honda's ASIMO project is to my knowledge the most advanced humanoid robot project in the works. Apparently, the robot is more entertaining than the Czech Prime Minister.
There's something really strange and moving in the image of the robot bringing flowers to Capek.
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Date: 2003-08-23 08:01 am (UTC)It's also kinda creepy, considering what the play was about.
Exactly so
Date: 2003-08-23 11:19 am (UTC)I can remember altogether too well how shocked and depressed I was when I first read R.U.R. (I was probably fourteen or so, which would make it more than thirty years ago.) Despite its ostensibly happy ending, the play has a very dystopian vision of the world.
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Date: 2003-08-23 11:41 am (UTC)