Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Themselves...

Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by malkia on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:49AM (#2859417)

Wanted to share this - Robot comes from the slavic (czech, russian, bulgarian and others) word - rabota - WORK.

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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by faboo on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:45AM (#2859678)

And created by Czech playwrite Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro...

Noteworthy, I think, because it'd seem natural for a technology to be named by the people who created it, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes its the people who dreamed of it.

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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by Jach on Monday August 08, 2011 @07:20AM (#2859614)

My memory recalls it's not just work, but slavery.

"Origin of ROBOT Czech, from robota compulsory labor; akin to Old High German arabeit trouble, Latin orbus orphaned — more at orphan First Known Use: 1922" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot

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