The Robot Takeover: 6 Things To Know About the Rise of Robotics
Like many great inventions in history, modern robots first existed in science fiction literature before they materialized in the real world. The word “robot” was first coined by the Czech playwright Karl Capek in 1921, in his hit play, “Rossum’s Universal Robots”. It comes from the word “rabota”, which means “slave labor” in the Old Slavonic language.
