COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota, ‘’ or forced labor, as done by serfs. Its Slavic linguistic root, “rab, ‘’ means “slave.” The original word for robots more accurately defines androids, then, in that they were neither metallic nor mechanical.

Detailed explanation-2: -In fact, the word “robot” comes from the Czech word “robota” (noun), which means “work” and in particular “serf labour".

Detailed explanation-3: -The word robota means literally “corvée", “serf labor", and figuratively “drudgery” or “hard work” in Czech and also (more general) “work", “labor” in many Slavic languages (e.g.: Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Polish, Macedonian, Ukrainian, archaic Czech, as well as robot in Hungarian).

Detailed explanation-4: -"R.U.R.” stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions). The play had its world premiere on 2 January 1921 in Hradec Králové; it introduced the word “robot” to the English language and to science fiction as a whole. R.U.R.