<P> According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov , in his science fiction short story `` Liar ! '' , published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction . Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term ; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics , he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots . In some of Asimov 's other works , he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround ( Astounding Science Fiction , March 1942 ) . However , the original publication of `` Liar ! '' predates that of `` Runaround '' by ten months , so the former is generally cited as the word 's origin . </P>
<P> According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the word robotics was first used in print by Isaac Asimov , in his science fiction short story `` Liar ! '' , published in May 1941 in Astounding Science Fiction . Asimov was unaware that he was coining the term ; since the science and technology of electrical devices is electronics , he assumed robotics already referred to the science and technology of robots . In some of Asimov 's other works , he states that the first use of the word robotics was in his short story Runaround ( Astounding Science Fiction , March 1942 ) . However , the original publication of `` Liar ! '' predates that of `` Runaround '' by ten months , so the former is generally cited as the word 's origin . </P>
when did the word robotics first appear in print
when did the word robotics first appear in print
May 1941
May 1941