From the wikipedia : "The play introduced the word robot, which displaced older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world.", " In Cze

From the wikipedia : "The play introduced the word robot, which displaced older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world.", " In Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands and is derived from rab, meaning "slave"."