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From: gamin@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca (Martin Boyer)
Subject: Re: Father of Robotics
In-Reply-To: draperjv@ornl.gov's message of 11 Feb 1994 11:28:04 EST
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 23:00:22 GMT

>>First person to use the term "robot" or "robotics"
>>eastern european guy?

>Capek? Didn't he just use the word "worker" in his own language, and
>we've copied it without translating because it sounded good?

I've been told by someone who spoke the language that the actual word
was "robota",  which indeed means worker, but with a derogatory twist,
kind of menial, manual, or low-level.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Martin Boyer                            mboyer@ireq-robot.hydro.qc.ca
Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec    mboyer@ireq-robot.uucp
Varennes, QC, Canada   J3X 1S1
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