Ashley Lister’s A-Z of Horror: R is for Robots
The word Robot is drawn from an old Slavonic word, robota, for “servitude,” “forced labour” or “drudgery.” The word, which also has cognates in German, Russian, Polish and Czech, was a product of the central European system of serfdom by which a tenant’s rent was paid for in forced labour or service. The term was … Read more