crysmoore:

scene from Rossum’s Universal Robots [R.U.R], the 1921  play by Czech Karel Capek. Capek is credited with coining the word Robot whose etymology includes:

robota - “serf labor” literally, & “drudgery” figuratively -Czech, Slovak, and Polish

rabota- “work” -contemporary Russian

Capek credits his brother as the originator of the word.