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> whose research interests arguably make her one of the most qualified people to write about Čapek’s perspective on robots. “The chemical robots in the form of
by robertlagrant 3y ago
> whose research interests arguably make her one of the most qualified people to write about Čapek’s perspective on robots. “The chemical robots in the form of microparticles that we designed and investigated, and that had properties similar to living cells, were much closer to Čapek’s original ideas than any other robots today,” Čejková explains in the book’s introduction
This doesn't sound right at all. The play's about synthetic humans taking over from humans and falling in love, not tiny chemical robots.
- lolinder 3y agoKeep reading to the extract from Čapek himself. The primary thing that he emphasizes about his robots is that they were biological in nature, and the primary thing he disliked about where they went from there is that robots became a word that referred to mechanical technology. The scale of the robots didn't matter to him as much as the fact that they specifically were not mechanical.
- robertlagrant 3y agoPossibly that's because the scale wasn't changed. If you can imagine the plot being less changed by microscopic chemical (not biological even) machines than by the human-sized and shaped things being made of metal, not organics, then fair enough, but I can't.
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