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Wanted to share this - Robot comes from the slavic (czech, russian, bulgarian and others) word - rabota - WORK.
by malkia 15y ago
Wanted to share this - Robot comes from the slavic (czech, russian, bulgarian and others) word - rabota - WORK.
- Jach 15y agoMy memory recalls it's not just work, but slavery. "Origin of ROBOT Czech, from robota compulsory labor; akin to Old High German arabeit trouble, Latin orbus orphaned — more at orphan First Known Use: 1922" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot
- faboo 15y agoAnd created by Czech playwrite Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro... Noteworthy, I think, because it'd seem natural for a technology to be named by the people who created it, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes its the people who dreamed of it.