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Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The etymological statement that the term robot goes back to Slavic roots should link to the article Corvée, which correctly implies that the term is very old in Europe generally, in reference to forced peasant labor. The play RUR did not introduce the term to mean drudge laborers — only to mean non-human drudge laborers (and even then it's hardly an invention, as the peasants were regarded as less than human). I don't think we need to go into all that explicitly, but I do think we should combat the general impression (dare I say canard?) that the term "robot" was somehow invented by the Capek brothers; all they did was dig up a centuries-old term, and one not at all confined to Czech. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.37.163 (talk) 15:48, 3 September 2025 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The article Robotics currently has a lot of content about types of robot which could be moved over here. Robotics is the human field of R+D that studies robots, so should focus on that human aspect. Then types of robot could all go here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.30.195.245 (talk) 10:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Can we please just drop the "From the time of ancient civilization," from the start of the fourth paragraph? It adds nothing to the text and is an awful, over-used cliché. If we must reinforce the presence of robots in history, it would do more good to actually mention specific cases in other sections of the article Yoshimatu (talk) 14:06, 1 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
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Latest comment: 5 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion
There appears to be an extra etymology section under the Future Development and Trends section. The second is longer and contains more detail. I believe the first one to be added after the second as the second section was less accessible and not in the normal place right under the top, and so was overlooked. The transcriptions are different, and the first states the Capek coined the word, but as the rest is mostly same. I believe that the information in the first should be reviewed and possibly merged with the second, and the second moved into the first's position in the meanwhile. ~2026-12544-24 (talk) 23:58, 25 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation built Televox in 1926; it was a cardboard cutout connected to various devices which users could turn on and off. In 1939, the humanoid robot known as Elektro was debuted at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
I found an even earlier mention of a robot, possibly connected to Westinghouse, from 1930. The tech described in the article sounds remarkably modern, which I thought was odd.Viriditas (talk) 23:30, 27 February 2026 (UTC)Reply
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. 
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