極客必知：這些炫酷科幻詞是怎么來的

時空旅行、零重力、外星人、賽博朋克，這些炫酷的科幻詞匯原來都來自小說家的妙筆生花。

Robotics 機器人學

While the noun robotics is commonplace today, it wasn't back in the 1941 when sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov coined the term in a short story published in Astounding Science Fiction. It took another 20 years before the term really took off, and by the 1980s, robotics had firmly planted itself in the English language.

雖然今天聽起來很常見，但機器人學這個名詞其實是1941年才出現的，當時科幻作家艾薩克·阿西莫夫在《Astounding Science Fiction》上發表的一篇短篇小說中創造了這個詞。過了20年它才真正被接受，到1980年代，機器人學這個詞終于進入英語語言中。