<P> ' Robot ' was first applied as a term for artificial automata in the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer , Karel Čapek . However , Josef Čapek was named by his brother Karel as the true inventor of the term robot . The word ' robot ' itself was not new , having been in the Slavic language as robota ( forced laborer ) , a term which classified those peasants obligated to compulsory service under the feudal system widespread in 19th century Europe ( see : Robot Patent ) . Čapek 's fictional story postulated the technological creation of artificial human bodies without souls , and the old theme of the feudal robota class eloquently fit the imagination of a new class of manufactured , artificial workers . </P>
<P> ' Robot ' was first applied as a term for artificial automata in the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer , Karel Čapek . However , Josef Čapek was named by his brother Karel as the true inventor of the term robot . The word ' robot ' itself was not new , having been in the Slavic language as robota ( forced laborer ) , a term which classified those peasants obligated to compulsory service under the feudal system widespread in 19th century Europe ( see : Robot Patent ) . Čapek 's fictional story postulated the technological creation of artificial human bodies without souls , and the old theme of the feudal robota class eloquently fit the imagination of a new class of manufactured , artificial workers . </P>
where did the word ' robot ' come from
where did the word ' robot ' come from
the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer , Karel Čapek
the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer , Karel Čapek