Talk:Robot Patent

Should make clear that "Robot" was a Slavic for word for "worker" or whatever (nothing to do with mechanical automatons). AnonMoos 23:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Material to be merged into the article?
I have removed the following paragraphs from the article. The material may need to be reinserted, if confirmed by proper sources:
 * The word robot apparently dates back to 1920, from a play by Czech author Karel Capek called R.U.R., or "Rossum's Universal Robots. The word robot comes from the word robota meaning "drudgery", "forced labor" in literary Czech and "work", "labor" in literary Slovak.


 * However, the word ROBOT dates into 1771, to the Habsburg's empire - a ROBOT patent was issued that regulated the serf's labor in payments i.g the protection against the excesses of ROBOT (personal labor for the lords) was granted to all peasants; immigrants were exempted. In other words - it was a conversion of robot into monetary payments that was encouraged by the government - the Empress Maria Theresa.


 * The Robot patent was written and/or collaborated by Adam Franz Kollár,


 * Adam F. Kollár began his career at the Imperial-Royal Library in 1748 as a scribe and eventually became its chief librarian and Councilor at the Court of the Habsburgs. Most of his appointments were readily approved by Empress Maria Theresa, with whom he curried favor, whose policies he underpinned with his scholarship and who became his only child's godmother.


 * Kollár is also credited with coining the term ethnology and providing its first definition in 1783. Some authors see him as one of the earliest pro-Slovak, pro-Slavic, and pan-Slavic activists in the Habsburg Monarchy.


 * Maria Theresa turned to Adam F. Kollar with requests for a large number of position papers relevant to her policy... as was the ROBOT PATENT ....


 * Adam F. KOLLAR (Slovak himself) derived the word ROBOT form old SLOVAK's word ROBOTA meaning  "labor" in literary Slovak.

--Edcolins (talk) 21:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

What is it?
This article starts with the patent's abolition. Shouldn't the article first tell how it came into existence and what it meant?? Cush (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC)