Karel Čapek [karɛl ʧapɛk] (Malé Svatoňovice, of Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, January 9, 1890-Prague, Czechoslovakia, December 25, 1938) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century Czech language. He coined the modern concept of robot. Despite the legend, the term is so mumbled between his brother Josef Karel brushes when asked about how to call these beings of his new play. The word robot comes from the robota form (according to some, the R'b old Slavic term meaning "slave" or Czech robota "work"). The fact is that the term first appeared in his play RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), in 1920, after premiering and success in Prague and later in London and New York was introduced in all languages