Since Czech playwright Karel Capek popularized the term ("robota" means "forced labor" in Czech) in 1921, we have imagined what robots could do.

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Like the first edition of "Rossum's Universal Robots, " a 1920 play by Czech writer Karel Capek that is credited with bringing the word "robot" to the world.

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