Dear readers,

while the whole family was knocked out by a flu virus during the last days, I started to dream about a little robot helper.

How cool would it be, if a little helper would take care of the housekeeping, including shopping, cooking and doing the laundry?

Just getting "sick" wouldn't be allowed for "Little Roby", or it would end tragically...

Where does the word "robot" come from?

The word robot was coined by artist Josef Čapek, the brother of famed Czechoslovakian author Karel Čapek. Karel Čapek was, among other things, a science fiction author before there was something officially known as science fiction, in subject matter along the same vein as George Orwell. He introduced the word in a play called R.U.R. The full title translating into English as Rossum’s Universal Robots, which debuted in January of 1921.

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While writing this play, he struggled to come up with a word to name the robots, initially settling on ‘laboři’, from the Latin ‘labor’. He discussed this with his brother, Josef, and Josef suggested ‘roboti’, which gave rise to the English ‘robot’. ‘Roboti’ derives from the Old Church Slavanic ‘rabota’, meaning ‘servitude’, which in turn comes from ‘rabu’, meaning ‘slave’.

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Do you like robots?

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Thanks for reading and stay curious!