A Czech playwright, Karel Capek, gave them their name in 1920 (from the Slavonic word for "work").

捷克剧作家Karel Capek在1920年的时候给予了机器人robot这个名称(斯拉夫语中“工作”的意思)。

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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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That worry takes on a particularly intense form when the machines come with a human face: Capek's play that gave robots their name depicted a world in which they initially brought lots of benefits but eventually led to mass unemployment and discontent.

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