Dave Lester’s Finding America

Published prior to Asimov’s famous “Three Laws of Robotics” and after Capek’s play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Al Capp’s ’savage’ robot comic fits within an interesting place of robot history. A brief time line to illustrate this:
1921 – R.U.R. premiers in Prague and popularizes the term robot
1927 – the silent science fiction film Metropolis by [...]

Paleo-future has posted a Lil’ Abner comic that ran in the July 18, 1937 edition of the Charleston Gazette, featuring a robot that suddenly turns violent. Visit their blog for the complete strip. I’ve featured one part of the comic that stands out the most, where the professor refers to his robot as [...]