Robotics
/roʊˈbɑːtɪks/noun
The branch of technology concerned with the design, construction, and operation of robots.
Did you know?*Robot* comes from Czech *robota*, meaning forced labor or servitude, and *robotics* was coined much later from that term after Karel Čapek’s play made the word world-famous.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*reydh-
“to ride, travel”
Old Church Slavonic
OCS
rabota
“servitude, slavery”
Old Czech
Czech
robota
“forced labor, drudgery”
1920
Czech
robot
“artificial worker or laborer”
20th Century
English
robotics
“the science or technology of robots”