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The term comes from a Slavic root, robot-, with meanings associated with labor. The word "robot" was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 Czech-language play R.U.R. (Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti – Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek, though it was Karel's brother Josef Čapek who was the word's true inventor.
According to Čapek, the word was created by his brother Josef from the Czech word robota 'corvée', or in Slovak 'work' or 'labor'. [51] Karel Čapek was working on his play during his stay in Trenčianske Teplice in Slovakia where his father worked as a medical doctor.)
It contributed the word 'robot' not only to English, but through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written." [ 4 ] In fact, Asimov's "Laws of Robotics" are specifically and explicitly designed to prevent the kind of situation depicted in R.U.R. , since Asimov's robots are created with a built-in total inhibition ...
The concept of robots as forced labor dates back at least as far as the word robot itself — so, too, does the notion of a robotic uprising. ‘Robot’ was coined 100 years ago, in a play ...
The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921. Performed in New York 1922 and an English edition published in 1923. In the play, the word refers to artificially created life forms. [1] Named robots in the play are Marius, Sulla, Radius, Primus, Helena, and ...
He invented the word "robot", which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek. Life. Čapek was born in Hronov, Bohemia (Austria-Hungary, later ...
Karel Čapek introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. in 1920. While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and ...
Tesla's Optimus robots walked into the spotlight at the company's "We, Robot" event. The bots would later serve drinks and mingle with the crowd, with some help from humans behind the scenes.