Karel Capek coins the word ‘robot’ to describe machines that resemble humans in his play called Rossums Universal Robots. The play was about a society that became enslaved by the robots that once served them.
This idea is now a common theme in popular culture, i.e. Frankenstein, Terminator, The Matrix, etc.
In which year he coined these words?
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