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Robot (was: Goy)

 
        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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