So! This is the play that gave us the word “robot”, which comes from the Czech word for either slave or forced laborer (umm, well slave) depending on the translation. This play got it all started. But of course, the concept of the robot is a much older idea — whether we’re dealing with golems in (whoa, Czech) Jewish myths and legends, or the animation of Frankenstein’s Creature or the bringing to life of Galatea etc etc, the animation of life is a fairly archetypal […]