# Josef Čapek **Domain:** Art / Literature / Machine Culture **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Karel Čapek]], [[R.U.R.]], [[Robot]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Josef Čapek was a Czech painter, writer and designer whom Karel Čapek publicly credited with supplying the word robot from robota, forced or corvée labor. ## Bauhaus Architects Context His role joins visual culture, language and artificial labor at the origin of the machine-age term. He also designed the first-edition cover of R.U.R. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]