![]() (The word has a Slavic root, with the same meaning as labor, but with a strong stress on serfdom.) ![]() „And that was it," Karel Čapek himself later described it. "'Name them Robots,' the painter muttered with a brush in his mouth and continued to paint. Josef Čapek was a respected painter, they had already written a few things together, so Karel gave a lot to his opinion. When he racked brains how to name them, first he came up with Labors (inspired by the English word labor, with Latin etymology labore – work, but also hard work, hardness, fatigue, even pain). Its heroes would be "artificial workers" or "living and intelligent working machines". Isaac Asimov later became so famous that he is known all over the world.Īround the same time the boy was born, thirty years old Karel Čapek, an emerging literary star of the newborn Czechoslovakia, was thinking about a new play for the National Theater in Prague. ![]() Nevertheless, the family, which arrived on RMS Baltic from the newborn Soviet Russia to New York on February 3, 1923, gave as the official birthday of the eldest of their three children Januand altered “z” for “s” in his name. The exact date of his birth is unknown it was sometime between October 1919 and early 1920. ![]() Robot, the Most Famous Czech, Celebrates 100 YearsĪbout a hundred years ago, in the village of Petrovichi near the Russian-Belarusian border, a baby was born in the Jewish family of Azimovs. ![]()
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