Jessica Oreck dan Rachael Teel: Misteri Bahasa Sehari-hari: Robot

Misteri Bahasa Sehari-hari: Robot

Pada 1920, penulis asal Ceko Karel Čapek menulis cerita tentang mesin yang menyerupai manusia sehingga menciptakan kata robot di Eropa Tengah untuk pekerja paksa. Jessica Oreck dan Rachel Teel menjelaskan bagaimana pokok dari ilmu fiksi  mendapatkan namanya.

Pelajaran: Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel
Animasi: Jessica Oreck.

The word robot traces its roots back over a thousand years to an era when serfdom and forced labor dominated central Europe. In 1920, a Czech science fiction play introduced the term to describe human-like machines, drawing from words meaning drudgery and servitude. The story’s impact was so strong that robot quickly entered English, forever shaping the way we imagine artificial helpers. Today’s robots look nothing like those early visions, but their origin still echoes in their name.