Karol Capek originally wanted to name the race of artificial people made for work in his play "Labori", but thought that was too clinical
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But since he was Czech it was "Robot". And since few non-Czech speak Czech, when the word took off the connotation was lost
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I just wonder if the issues with tech would be clearer if everyone knew where the word "robot" came from
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