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KAREL CAPEK DIES; CZECH WRITER, 48; Playwright Who Put the Word 'Robot' in Popular Language of America Is Stricken WAS A NEWSPAPER EDITOR Also Wrote Short Stories and 'The Macropulos Affair,' Play
![A young bar maid met the future. A cocktail robot at a bartender's school in New York, 1933. The term A young bar maid met the future. A cocktail robot at a bartender's school in New York, 1933. The term](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/G16EWN/a-young-bar-maid-met-the-future-a-cocktail-robot-at-a-bartenders-school-G16EWN.jpg)
A young bar maid met the future. A cocktail robot at a bartender's school in New York, 1933. The term "robot" was first used to denote fictional automata in a 1921 play
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