Ok, where does the word Robot mean, and where does it come from? I have the source text infront of me, but it is a question for my students, but everyone can play.
Just to add to jmiak's comment, the term was first coined by K. Čapek, a Czech science fiction writer, in his play R.U.R. "Rossum's Universal Robots" (1920). The robots in the play take over and implant humans with circuitry.
My Oxford is also telling me that it's also used in South Africa to mean a set of automatic traffic lights. That's cool
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:29 pm (UTC)My Oxford is also telling me that it's also used in South Africa to mean a set of automatic traffic lights. That's cool
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:48 pm (UTC)