The Birth of the Term Robot

Authors

  • Robert SZABOLCSI General Staff of Hungarian Armed Forces/Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary

Keywords:

slave, slavery, serfdom, robot

Abstract

Thereare many scientists calling robotics for achievement of the modern era.Robotics is a multi-, and interdisciplinary field of the technical and othersciences, based on the newest results of classical-, modern-, and alsopost-modern control theory. Leaning on tools of modern robotics it is possibleenhance manufacturing, improve quality of products. Robots can serve for, andinstead of the Man in many dirty-, dull-, and dangerous applications. The goalof the author is to make an attempt to find origin of the word “robot” viahistorical epochs famous for slavery, unpaid labour, and corvée work.

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The Birth of the Term Robot. (2014). Advances in Military Technology, 9(1), 117-128. https://www.aimt.cz/index.php/aimt/article/view/1021