Karel Capek didn't "invent" the robot. He (and/or his brother Josef) invented the word "robot", from a Czech word meaning "worker" or "slave". But they were writers, not inventors.
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The robot was invented by writer Karel Capek in 1920 in his book R.U.R.
a short history of the robot is in the link below. Literary credit goes to the Czech writer Karel Capek.
Czechoslovakian. Literary credit goes to the Czech writer Karel Capek.
Czechoslovakian. Literary credit goes to the Czech writer Karel Capek.
The 1921 play, R.U.R
Karel Capek invented the Robot, but MAY have not been in exactly Australia.
Karel Čapek was a Czech playwright who coined the term "robot" in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). In the play, "robots" were an underclass of human beings, not mechanical machines.
Karel Capek wrote a play in 1921 about artificial men (play was called R.U.R.) and used the term robot for the first time.
Robot is derived from the Czech word "robota", work/labor/ serfdom/drudgery. It appeared in a play by Karel Capek.
The term "robot" was first used in a play called "R.U.R." or "Rossum's Universal Robots" by the Czech writer Karel Capek.