What does the word robot mean and where did it come from?

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A robot can be any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill, and it came from by Karel Čapek, a Czech person, in the play R.U.R. from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotník peasant owing such labor
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