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The thing I love about this is that the entire trope about a robot uprising comes from this play about workers (translation of the Czech "robota") being mistreated and overthrowing their oppressors.


I believe it's an etymological cousin of the German 'arbeit'


It translates closer to “slave” or “serf.”


From the wikipedia : "The play introduced the word robot, which displaced older words such as "automaton" or "android" in languages around the world.", " In Czech, robota means forced labour of the kind that serfs had to perform on their masters' lands and is derived from rab, meaning "slave"."




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