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Comment by malkia

6 years ago

And we owe the word "robot" to Karel Čapek (AFAIK). "Rabota" - means work in Bulgarian, and I guess similar in many other slavic languages.

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klohto  6 years ago

FYI, the robot and rabota are pretty close due to ‘robota’ meaning work in old Czech.

  • severak_cz  6 years ago

    this is exactly how it was invented.

    Also - "robot" was not invented Karel Čapek but his brother Josef. Karel was looking for good word describing mechanical workers for his theatre play called RUR.