It translates to 'worker'
It's a made up word. If it translated to 'worker' he'd have just written 'worker' in Czech.
It's a made up word. If it translated to 'worker' he'd have just written 'worker' in Czech.
In all slavic languages, 'robot' is the base of the verb 'to work'. So, by the same means by which some people have decided to translate 'robot' as 'slave', it would be more accurate to translate it as 'worker'.