When the Czech playwright Karel Capek introduced the word "robot," from the Czech robota "forced labor," in 1920, it gave rise to endless fantasies of building animate mechanical replacements for humans.
1920 年，捷克話劇家 Karel Capek，首先在話劇中使用 robota 這個字，有「強迫勞動」的意思，英文譯成 robot，中文則譯成機器人，開啟人類對複製另一個神似自我的機械替代品的各種夢想。