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The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech playwright Karel Capek

(pronounced "chop'ek") from the Czech word for forced labor or serf.

Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for

his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and

playwright. Mercifully, he died before the Gestapo got to him for his

anti-Nazi sympathies in 1938.

The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play "R.U.R."

(Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.

The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened

throughout Europe and the US. R.U.R's theme, in part, was the

dehumanization of man in a technological civilization.

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The word 'robot' was coined by the Czech playwright Karel Capek

(pronounced "chop'ek") from the Czech word for forced labor or serf.

Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for

his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and

playwright. Mercifully, he died before the Gestapo got to him for his

anti-Nazi sympathies in 1938.

The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play "R.U.R."

(Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.

The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened

throughout Europe and the US. R.U.R's theme, in part, was the

dehumanization of man in a technological civilization.

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