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The word "robot" was created by the Czech playwrite Karel Capek (1890-1930) for his 1920 play "R.U.R." (an acronym for "Rossum's Universal Robots"). The word was based on the Slavic root for "work," which is cognate to Yiddish _arbet_, German _Arbeit_, etc. Bob Rothstein
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