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Robot: From Forced Labor to Future Machin

Robot: From Forced Labor to Future Machin

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Where does the word robot really come from? In this episode of Origins in Five, we trace it from a Czech play from the 1920s to modern day usage. What sounds like a word from the future turns out to carry the weight of a much older world.

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