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Isn't robot Polish?
19 0 ReplyIt's Czech
42 0 ReplyWritten by the Czech Karel Čapek in the play Rossum's Universal Robots
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I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:
- Robot is unique and alone
- Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
- Robots discarded after their usefulness expired
And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.
10 0 ReplyIt’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)
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