Robot

Robot is from the Czech word robota which means labourer.

The word robot was first used by [Karel Capek]? in his play Rossums Universal Robots, written in 1920. Although Capek's robots were organic artificial men, the word robot is nearly always used to refer to mechanical men.

Once the stuff of science fiction, the use of very simple robots is now a commonplace in many areas of industry, and particularly the automotive industry, where they have been programmed to replace human labour in many simple repetitive tasks.

I, Robot series by Isaac Asimov made famous his Three Laws Of Robotics (later four).

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