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5. Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel “Dune
6. First described by novelist Edward Bellamy in his 1887 utopian book Looking Backward
10. Czech author, Karel Capek, imagined the existence of sentient them in 1920
11. Dr Richard H Lawyer of Chicago was the first to do it
13. Robert H. Goddard, the American scientist built the first one
14. is the father of science fiction. Jules Verne imagined a great underwater ship named Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

1. it was invented by Igor Sikorsky
2. H G Wells first mentioned the idea in his novel, The World Set Free, in 1913
3. robots such as R2-D2 from Star Wars were a mainstay of science fiction long before Apple unveiled its Siri software
4. is Perhaps the most revolutionary invention of the last century
5. Inspired by galvanism (manipulating muscles with electrical current)
7. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury presented a dystopian world where books are outlawed and destroyed by firemen in the society
8. Cars with “robot brains
9. In 1942, famed sci-fi author Robert Heinlein published a short story about a physically infirm inventor, Waldo F. Jones, who created a remotely operated mechanical hand
12. Supposedly the most advanced non-lethal weapon the police have at their disposal