Robot Golem

myth:robot_golem

The made servant that rebels runs from the clay Golem of Prague, woken by a holy name and unmade when it grows too strong, through Frankenstein's creature, to Capek's play R.U.R., which gave the world the word 'robot', and on to the machine-minds of modern story. The maker's hubris, retold for the age of machines — and the age of thinking ones. — contemporary literature