Thus Karel imagined people not as individuals but as machines and during the journey thought about an expression which would describe a human being only able to work but not able to reason. The tram was so uncomfortably overcrowded, that people were pressed together inside, even spilling outside on to the tram steps, appearing not like herded sheep, but like machines. The brothers were quite different: Josef was an introvert, while Karel was more opened and had a lot of friends.Ī further inspiration came in the beginning of 1920, when Karel took a tram from Prague’s suburbs to the city center. Josef Čapek (left) and Karel Čapek (right) in the middle 1930s. "Then call them Roboti," the painter muttered, brush in mouth, and carried on painting.
I could call them Laboři, but that strikes me as a bit literal." "But," the author said, "I don’t know what to call those artificial workers. "Then write it," the painter said, without taking the brush from his mouth or stopping to work on the canvas. The author told him as concisely as he could. "What kind of?" the painter mumbled (he really did mumble, because at the moment he was holding a brush in his mouth). "Listen, Josef," the author began, "I think I have an idea for a play." And while it was still fresh he rushed immediately to his brother Josef, a painter, who was just standing by the easel, vigorously painting at a canvas. It was like this: the idea for the play came to said author in a single, unexpected moment. The author of the play RUR did not, in fact, invent that word, he merely ushered it into existence.
Chudoba about mentioning of the Robot word in Oxford dictionary and its derivation in English, reminds me that I have an old duty. Karel Čapek described the occasion some 13 years later in the newspaper Lidové noviny of 24 December, 1933 (in Kulturní kronika column, on page 12, see the text in English and the original report below): The cover of the first edition of R.U.R., November 1920 (left) the title page of the first edition (right) How was the word robot invented, and what it means? Since then, and almost immediately, the robot word has become a universal expression in most languages for artificial-intelligence machines, invented by humans. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in November, 1920 (see the lower image). The robot word was conceived in the beginning of 1920 by the Czech writer and playwright Karel Čapek (see biography of Karel Čapek) (with the help of his brother Josef, an acclaimed painter, graphic artist, writer and poet), and was introduced in his drama R.U.R.
The creators of robot word, Karel Čapek (left), and his brother Josef Čapek (right) Karel Capek
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