The Capek children were all artistically gifted: Karel's sister, Helena, published several books, and his brother, Josef, was a well-known artist, fiction writer, and dramatist. His mother, Bozena Capek, collected folklore. His father, Antonín Capek, was a doctor who came from a family of farmers. Despite his broad body of work, his most lasting contribution to international culture has proven to be a single word he coined for one of his plays: “robot.” Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĮarly Life in Bohemia Karel Capek was born in Malé Svatonovice in northeastern Bohemia on January 9, 1890. His views tended toward tolerant democracy and practical humanism, and he subscribed to the ideology of the first Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) and to the views of its first president, Tomás Garrigue Masaryk. He worked in many capacities: He was a man of the theater, a translator, a journalist, an essayist, a fiction writer, and an organizer of cultural activities. ( source: Wikipedia), public domain, PD-OLD-70.Karel Capek is regarded as the most important Czech writer before World War II. Photo: Scene from the Karel Čapek’s novel: R.U.R. Karel Čapek in another novel ‘’War with the Newts’’ changed this theme and non-humans became servants of the human race. They appear to be happy to work for the people however a roboT rebellion starts which leads tot he extinction of humans. They differ from the present definition of the word robots since they can think for themselves and are living flesh and blood creatures rather than machinery. The novel starts at a factory where artificial people called roboti ( robots) are created. It came on the market on 25 January 1921 and it is when the word robot was used fort he first time. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots) and is a science fiction dark but with hope novel. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek. Josef Čapek was a Czech artist, painter, writer and poet.

However, Josef Čapek, Karel Čapek’s brother is the word’s true inventor. The word ‘robot’ was first used to denote a fictional humanoid in a 1920 play R.U.R. written by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek. Have you known that Robots come from the Czech Republic so it is the Central Europe region where they were born!

Karel capek robot 1921