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"Robot" is already derived from the russian word for work. Is that connected or no?
by kemiller 16y ago
"Robot" is already derived from the russian word for work. Is that connected or no?
- Detrus 16y agoBiorobot refers to the people who cleaned up the reactor roof with shovels after a remote controlled shoveling car, a "robot" had its electronics fried from the radiation. The pun is robots are expendable, so are biorobots. It's not related to the work word origin. The biorobots wore handmade suits of lead armor, so they were covered in metal, like robots. I'm getting it from here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5384001427276447319... Even if you speak Russian it's hard to decipher their puns. "Liquidator" is an official term, but also has connotations. Not sure, but I remember it's associated with death squads.
- bluekeybox 16y ago"The word robot was introduced to the public by the Czech interwar writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Etymology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot#Etymology)
- varjag 16y agoNot directly, the word itself is derived from Czech. Biorobot in particular is a sci-fi cliche, which, with official stressing on TV that robots are also involved in clean-up, made the joke.