Seems like a fun time to share one of my favorite etymolgies
robot(n.)
1923, “mechanical person,” also “person whose work or activities are entirely mechanical,” from the English translation of the 1920 play “R.U.R.” (“Rossum’s Universal Robots”) by Karel Capek (1890-1938), from Czech robotnik “forced worker,” from robota “forced labor, compulsory service, drudgery,”
Seems like a fun time to share one of my favorite etymolgies
Doctor forced worker?? yeah that checks out
was… he the good guy all along??
now I want a The Protomen style rock concept album detailing the rise and fall of Robotnik and his travails against that bourgeois hedgehog