"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://

"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)