Do you remember the movie iRobot? That Will Smith movie had delved deeper into the scenario of Robots taking over the humans and that too in a well calculated manner. The movie wasn’t of course the first in this genre.

There have always been discussions and arguments about the probability of robots taking over the humans and the earth and till now they all have been based on cinematic or some fiction novels. Even if you think that ‘robots taking over the world’ is a far-fetched idea then the very recent ‘robots taking over our jobs’ isn’t that unconvincing. Robots have indeed entered in various spheres of our life. But do you wonder why do we call a robot a ‘robot’?

The word robot derives its roots from the Czech word ‘robotnik’ which means ‘slave’. ‘Robotnik’ comes from ‘rabota’ which is an Old Church Slavonic word for servitude. The English language first used the word ‘robot’ in a translation of Czech playwright Karel Capek’s 1920 sci-fi drama ‘RUR’ or ‘Rosum’s Universal Robots’. Capek’s play described a companythat manufactures and sells workers that look and act like humans, but lack souls.

The intelligent servants then rebel against their human masters. And this is something that has been recreated in many films and novels long after that. Whether robots will snatch away our jobs or not, whether they will take over our world or not is a question better left unanswered because as long as humans aren’t too dependent on robots and robots aren’t too intelligent, the chances are quite bleak.

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Author: Technology and Beyond