Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (English: Charles Chapek; (1890-01-09)9 January 1890 – (1938-12-25)25 December 1938) was a Czechoslovakian writer, who was the brother of Josef Čapek, an painter and a writer. Čapek first coined the word robot in 1920, through a drama called, R.U.R (Short for Rossumov universal roboti in Bohemian). The events in the first parts of the work take place in a factory where robots are produced. In this drama, robots seem to be like people, and they are like people in almost every way.

Karel Čapek
A photograph of Karel Čapek
Born	(1890-01-09)9 January 1890 Malé Svatňovice
Died	25 December 1938(1938-12-25) (aged 48) Prague
Burial place	Vyšehrad Cemetery, Prague
Nationality	Austro-Hungarian; later Czechoslovakian
Occupation(s)	Translator, mythologist, director, photographer, playwright, journalist, future fiction, children book's, and book writer, philosopher, painter, literary critic, essayist, poet
Parents	Antonín Čapek (father) Olga Scheinpflugová (mother)