Introduction

robot
From translation of 1920 play ``R.U.R.'' (``Rossum's Universal Robots''), by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robota ``forced labor, drudgery'', from robotiti ``to work, drudge'', from Old Church Slavonic rabota ``servitude'', from rabu ``slave'', from a Slavic stem related to German arbeit ``work''.