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That itself reminded me, that the word "robot" comes from "robota, rabota" which means "to work, worker" in a lot of slavic languages (My native language is bul
by malkia 9y ago
That itself reminded me, that the word "robot" comes from "robota, rabota" which means "to work, worker" in a lot of slavic languages (My native language is bulgarian).
From the dictionary:
robot, origin: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor.’ The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).
https://www.google.com/search?q=robot+definition https://www.google.com/search?q=robot+definition
- contras1970 9y agoRossum is a riff on "rozum" which means reason (as in to reason about). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.#Origin_of_the_word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.#Origin_of_the_word
- mrkgnao 9y ago"Thinker's Universal Workers"?