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robots

“robots” is a Latvian word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. robot (machine built to carry out complex tasks, especially one which can be programmed)
  2. robot (intelligent machine designed to look like a human being)

adjective

  1. jagged, notched, indented; having gaps, unevenness

Etymology

From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef http://ui.fpf.slu.cz/persons/Kelemen/articles/HorKelALIFEIXDef.pdf, and taken into other languages without change.

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