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Ebook Friendly - The word "robot" was first used by a Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 science fiction play R.U.R. to describe a humanoid slave. The word was coined by
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TIL that the word robot originates from the Czech word "robotnik" which means "slave". : r/todayilearned
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100 years after the word was first used in a Czech play, a 'robot' will actually try to write one - Prague, Czech Republic
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