“Robot” comes from the Czech word “robotnik,” meaning serf or slave. In R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), robots are artificial people designed to perform hard labor, until (spoiler alert ...

Take the word ‘robot’ for example, which is more commonly used wrongly rather than correctly when going by the definition of the person who coined it: [Karel Čapek]. It was the year 1920 when ...

Robot is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of the Czech playwright, novelist and journalist Karel Čapek, who introduced it in his 1920 hit play, R.U.R., or Rossum ...

A scene from “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” showing three robots, via Wikimedia Commons. For many, the word robot conjures an image of a mechanical being clad in metal, adorned with all sorts of ...

“R.U.R.,” which gave birth to the robot, was a critique of mechanization and the ways it can dehumanize people. The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced ...

“Alive” is the eye-opening word here. So far ... futurist and entrepreneur Peter Diamandis really think the humanoid robot ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word "robot" in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum's Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum ...