Where did the word "Robot" come from???

Question

i'll give 5 pts. to the person with the correct answer and another 5 pts if he/she can tell me the meaning of the word

Answer 1

The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Capek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word ‘robot’, from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and playwright.

The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.

Answer 2

Word History: Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing. It has been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel Čapek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York. R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, "servitude, forced labor," from rab, "slave." The Slavic root behind robota is orb-, from the Indo-European root *orbh-, referring to separation from one's group or passing out of one sphere of ownership into another. This seems to be the sense that binds together its somewhat diverse group of derivatives, which includes Greek orphanos, "orphan," Latin orbus, "orphaned," and German Erbe, "inheritance," in addition to the Slavic word for slave mentioned above. Czech robota is also similar to another German derivative of this root, namely Arbeit, "work" (its Middle High German form arabeit is even more like the Czech word). Arbeit may be descended from a word that meant "slave labor," and later generalized to just "labor."

Answer 3

I was told the answer to this a couple months ago by someone. It's pretty interesting.

Apparently "back in the day", as many other people did, Czechs immigrated to America in search of opportunities. Many of them ended up on assembly lines, where they would do many repetitive (or what we now call robotic) movements all day long while working. Czechs started calling these workers (sometimes themselves) "robots" (I'm pretty sure the word came from "robota", or something of the likes) In English it means something along the lines of compulsory labor.

Answer 4

It is from the play R U R by Capek

It is from the Czech for drudgery or servitude., invented by the author's brother.

Answer 5

I believe the term came from a silent movie called R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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