NetDoc, now you got me investigating, which is a fancy way of saying "doing WORK" ... I thought the 11th commandement of "thy shalt not inflict work on thine brother IT profesional" was know world-wide .. *cough*
To the topic (?) at hand.. The world "robot" was first used (and thus invented?) by the Czech playwright Carel Capek [needs a small "v" on the C] in his play Rossum's Universal Robots, written in 1921, and translated into English, presumably for presentation/staging either in London or in New York (or both) in 1923.
Needless to say, the main credit for popularising the term goes to the God Supremo of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov.
Some useless trivia: Carel Capek's robots themselves have also made it into various "non-scientific" fiction, where they are more often than not called golems.
To the topic (?) at hand.. The world "robot" was first used (and thus invented?) by the Czech playwright Carel Capek [needs a small "v" on the C] in his play Rossum's Universal Robots, written in 1921, and translated into English, presumably for presentation/staging either in London or in New York (or both) in 1923.
Needless to say, the main credit for popularising the term goes to the God Supremo of Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov.
Some useless trivia: Carel Capek's robots themselves have also made it into various "non-scientific" fiction, where they are more often than not called golems.
