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Who first coined the term robot?

Karel Čapek
Stanisław Lem
Thomas Edison
Jules Verne
Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his 1936 novel War with the Newts and 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word robot.
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Jimmy Carter
Albert Einstein
Neil Armstrong
Stanislaw Lem

Where was Bertrand Russel from?

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Jules Verne
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
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inside the Solar System
on the coasts of Australia
on Mars and Venus
in the tropics