The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids and clones, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment. However, Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word; he wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator. In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages. Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known.
I believe it is the Czech word for "slave".
Could be Czech in origin. It means worker, or slave in that language.
It was invented by Czech writer Karel Capek it appeared in his science fiction play - R.U.R. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to Sci-fi as a whole.
It comes from "robota", the Czech word for slave or serf. It appeared in Karel Capek's play: "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" in 1921.
The word robot is from Czech. In Czech robot means "work".
It means worker or slave in Czech.
The word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," which means forced labor or drudgery. It was first coined by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.
ROBOT is a word that comes from the Czech language. It was first used in the Czech play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek in 1920.
The word "robot" is from the Czech language, coined by playwright Karel Capek in his play "R.U.R." in 1920. It comes from the Czech word "robota," which means forced labor or serf labor.
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I believe it is the Czech word for "slave".
It comes from the Czech word for forced labor.
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The word robot comes from the Czech word robo - to work.
The word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robota," meaning forced labor or drudgery. It was first used in a play by Karel Čapek called "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920 to describe artificially created beings that resembled humans.