Originally written over 60 years ago, Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot is becoming truer with every day that passes. The world that he imagined is now upon us. As Radio 4 broadcasts its adaptation of ...

But the word "robot" was first introduced by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1921 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots).