Rights for Robots Quotes

“The word robot first entered the popular lexicon in Karel Čapek’s 1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) (Čapek, 2004). Čapek based the term on the Czech word robota, which means “obligatory work” (Hornyak, 2006, p. 33). Interestingly, Rossum’s robots were not machines at all, but rather synthetic humans (Moran, 2007).”
― Joshua C. Gellers, Rights for Robots: Artificial Intelligence, Animal and Environmental Law