It comes from the word "robota", which means forced labor or drudgery. The word was first used in the 1920 play *R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)* by Czech writer Karel Čapek.
It comes from the word "robota", which means forced labor or drudgery. The word was first used in the 1920 play *R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)* by Czech writer Karel Čapek.