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Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Robot

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In 1920, Czech writer Karel Capek wrote a play about human-like machines, thereby inventing the term robot from the Central European word for forced labor. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel explain how the science fiction staple earned its name. [2:18]

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