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The trajectory contained in ������'s story were subsequently expressed in a long list of other texts and films, as well, from Isaac Asimov's "I Robot" to Stanley Kubrick's "2001" and Michael Crichton's "Westworld," to more recent films that have extended "Blade Runner's" message in the "Terminator" and "RoboCop" franchises, Alex Garland's "Ex Machina," "Automata" and "Chappie," along with episodes in Charlie Brooker's "Black Mirror" and Tim Miller's "Love, Death & Robots."

We get the word robot from the Czech word robota, which comes to us in a stage play from 1920 by Karel ������.

One hundred years ago, a play by the Czech author Karel Č������ introduced the word “robot,” telling the story of artificial factory workers designed to serve humans.

I tried to connect the books I read: a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche with his Thus Spake Zarathrustra, Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon with Karel Č������, getting most of my connections from works of criticism, reviews, or casual mentions by my English teacher, who seemed to have read everything.

Against that backdrop, the word ‘robot’ was born in Czech writer Karel Č������’s 1920 play R.U.R.