英语词汇robot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

robot. In Karel Capek’s play R.U.R., first produced in 1921, mechanical men manufactured by the Rossum Universal Robot Corporation revolt and threaten to take over the world. This play marked the first time mechanical men were called robots, a word which has since been extended to include people devoid of human feelings who act like mechanical men and any mech- anism guided by automatic controls. Capek coined robot from the Czech word robata, “work,” meaning “a slave.” The world is saved in the play when the robots miraculously become hu- man. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 5,535 robots were made by American industry in 1984, after its first survey of such machines. The Robatics Industries Association estimates that tens of thousands of robots are now in use in the U.S. The Census Bureau defines a robot as “a reprogrammable multi- functional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.” We’ve all done work like that.

词汇	robot
词源	robot. In Karel Capek’s play R.U.R., first produced in 1921, mechanical men manufactured by the Rossum Universal Robot Corporation revolt and threaten to take over the world. This play marked the first time mechanical men were called robots, a word which has since been extended to include people devoid of human feelings who act like mechanical men and any mech- anism guided by automatic controls. Capek coined robot from the Czech word robata, “work,” meaning “a slave.” The world is saved in the play when the robots miraculously become hu- man. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 5,535 robots were made by American industry in 1984, after its first survey of such machines. The Robatics Industries Association estimates that tens of thousands of robots are now in use in the U.S. The Census Bureau defines a robot as “a reprogrammable multi- functional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.” We’ve all done work like that.
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