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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Isn't robot Polish?

[–] rotkehlchen 42 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's Czech

[–] clay_pidgin 14 points 7 months ago

Written by the Czech Karel Čapek in the play Rossum's Universal Robots

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can see it. There are a few tropes that come to mind:

  • Robot is unique and alone
  • Robots outlive their creators/creating civilization
  • Robots discarded after their usefulness expired

And looking into the etymology of orphan makes it even clearer. Robots are often depicted as being dereft of rights, feelings etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

It’s more because it comes from slave (arbeiten is also related), and both slaves and orphans deal with status changes, but that’s a lot more similarities than I had :)