Yes Robert James, “robot” comes from the Old Church Slavonic word rabota for servitude. It was popularized in an English translation of a Czech by Karel Capek which described those used to do forced labor as robotniks.
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Yes Robert James, “robot” comes from the Old Church Slavonic word rabota for servitude. It was popularized in an English translation of a Czech by Karel Capek which described those used to do forced labor as robotniks.
“It was popularized in an English translation of a Czech (sic) by Karel Capek which described those used to do forced labor as robotniks.”
To clarify, Capek coined the term in his *play*, “R.U.R” (“Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti”-“Rossum’s Universal Robots”) and applied it to artificial, organic beings, who were built to perform labor.