Rossum's Universal Robots
The 1921 play, R.U.R
It was invented by Czech writer Karel Capek it appeared in his science fiction play - R.U.R. It premiered in 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to Sci-fi as a whole.
2005
Robot is not a compound word.
The word "robot" originates from the Czech word "robota" meaning forced labor or drudgery. It was first introduced by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.
A robot can be any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill, and it came from by Karel Čapek, a Czech person, in the play R.U.R. from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotník peasant owing such labor
the word drama in German is schauspie! :) You can also use the word Drama
John Lyly
No, "robot" is not a long vowel word. The vowel 'o' in robot is pronounced as a short vowel sound.
The word robot is from Czech. In Czech robot means "work".
Here comes another robot dancer!
The word for "robot" in Tagalog is directly "robot". It's adopted from English and widely understood.