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How and when the robot word was invented?
The robot word was conceived in the beginning of 1920 by the Czech writer and playwright Karel Čapek (1855-1938) with the help of his brother Josef (an acclaimed painter, graphic artist, writer and poet), and was introduced in his drama R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in November, 1920.
One day, riding in an overcrowded tram in Prague, Karel imagined people not as individuals but as machines and during the journey thought about an expression which would describe a human being only able to work but not able to reason.
Discussing the issue with Josef, Karel first wanted to use the Latin word for work, labori, but found it was too literal. Therefore, Josef suggested roboti, drawn from an old Church Slavic word robota, meaning 'servitude' or 'forced labor'.
Since then, and almost immediately, the robot word has become a universal expression in most languages for artificial-intelligence machines, invented by humans.
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