Word "Robot", what does it mean and where it comes from?

What is a robot? 

One of the definitions says that the Robot is a machine with anthropomorphic (human-like) behavior, which partially or completely performs the functions of a person (sometimes an animal) when interacting with the surrounding world.

And where and how did the word ROBOT come into our life?

For the first time the term robot appeared in the play "R.U.R" (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1917, published in 1921) by the author Karl Capek and co-authored with his brother Josef.

The play "R.U.R" is a story about creation (by father and son) of the robots production.

The word "robot" - Czech, means "forced labor" and is a relative of the Russian ?работа? (transcription ?rabota?) - means "work".

Initially, K.Czapek called his creations "laboratories" from the Latin word "labor" - work. But then, on the advice of his brother, changed the name to robot from the Czech word ?robota? - heavy forced labor. 

In the play "R.U.R" robots are described as cheap and unpretentious hard workers (or slaves) for mans. However, they could produce their own kind and soon filled the whole planet.... and so on.

One of the heroes of the play (RUR company general director) answering the question "what are robots?", Says: "Robots are not people ... they are mechanically more perfect than us, they have an incredibly strong intellect, but they do not have a soul." 

So for the first time a new concept "robot" appeared, which soon took an important role not only in science fiction, but also in science and technology.

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