“ Robot is drawn from an old Church Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labor” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labor or service.”
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RUR is, like, one of the New York Times’ go-to answers (like Ara Parseghian), because you can fit it in anywhere. So...
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More accurately, the literal translation for robota is as a verb: “to work.” Serfdom, slavery, drudgery, etc, are...
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Of course, robots are as old as Homer, really.
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Lapham’s Quarterly: The origin of the word “robot”
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Learning is fun.
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