A Text Book of Robot & Robotics  (English, Paperback, Dr K P Parthiban)

The word "robot" is derived from the word "robota," which is a slave or forced labour in Czech. We will assign the robot some jobs, and it will carry them out exactly like a servant. This is similar to having a servant. Karel Capek coined the phrase "robot" in the year 1921. A writer from the Czech Republic by the name of Karel Capek, it was titled Rossum's Universal Robot (R.U.R). Additionally, he coined the phrase "robota," or the robot, in that specific drama. However, he described the robot in the following way: it had a human-like appearance. However, there are certain robots that we utilise now that don't resemble people. So, in reality, this is how the term "robot" was first used in 1921. However, there was not a single robot in existence at the time. The term "robot" has been defined in a variety of ways throughout the literature. This is nothing more than an automated machine, for instance, the Oxford English Dictionary defines a robot as "a machine capable of carrying out a complicated set of tasks automatically, especially one programmable by a computer." The robot is therefore described as an autonomously controlled, reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator, programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications, by ISO, or the International Organization for Standardization.