English doesn't have many words from the Czech language. Today is a chance to celebrate an important one.
On January 25, 1921, Rossum's Universal Robots, a play by Karel Capek, premiered in Prague. Although the play is now mostly forgotten, it brought the word "robot" into the English language when the play premiered in New York in 1922 and published in an English translation in 1923. Capek's brother Josef Capek actually coined the term. He drew it from the Czech "roboti," meaning "labor."
The word "automaton" (plural: automata) has been used for centuries to describe machines built to move like living beings. These were generally designed for entertainment.
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