>>67 is a language nerd and pointed out that Karel Čapek coined the term in the 1920s, in his play "Rossum's Universal Robots," and the word "robot" comes from the Czech root word "robota," meaning "serf labor," which in turn can be traced to Slavonic root forms for words meaning "worker." He noted also that in the 17th Century the Czech language absorbed many loanwords from Russian directly, and the Russian verb "robotat" means "to work."