Editing Robots in literature (section)

==The modern "robot"==
The first use of the word "[[robot]]" was in [[Karel Čapek]]'s play ''[[R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)]]'' written in 1920 and first performed in [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1921, in [[New York City]] in 1922 and an [[English language|English]] edition published in 1923. Čapek's Robots are artificially manufactured  from organic materials to labor for humans, and as the play progresses they revolt and overthrow their human creators. However, the play ends on an optimistic note: Robots' artificial biology causes a male and female Robot to fall in love, preserving the spirit of humanity as a result. ''R. U. R.'' and its Robots reflect contemporary anxieties about dehumanization amid the mass industrialization and militarism of the early twentieth century.<ref>Szollosy, M. (2017). Freud, Frankenstein and our fear of robots: projection in our cultural perception of technology. AI & Society, 32(3), 433+.</ref>

While Karel Čapek's play introduced the word "robot" into languages around the globe, he later wrote a letter to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] of etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer [[Josef Čapek]], as its true inventor. In an article in the Czech [[Lidové noviny]] in 1933 he also explains that he originally wanted to call the creatures "laboři" from the Latin word ''labor''. Karel found the word too bookish and sought advice from Josef who suggested to call them "robots". The word, which is always capitalized in Čapek's play, derives from ''robota'' which means "drudgery" in [[Czech language|Czech]] and means "work" in [[Slovakian language|Slovak]].)

The theme of robots has been picked up by science fiction writers and many volumes are focused on robots and their interaction with the human species. Of particular note is the work of [[Isaac Asimov]] as a large part of his work centers on robots. Asimov is particularly known for his creation of the [[Three laws of robotics]] which that author uses in stories as both to define his robots and how these interact within the worlds he creates.<!--''Technically no - it does not sense nor have axes of movement nor is it autononmous - it does what it is told.'':  A modern type of robot used today is the [[computer]]. No need for a robot to be autonomous. Most extant robots are not. Computers still don't really qualify though, since they normally don't react to or interact with their environment. -->