Robot
Asteroid Number 15907
Discovered October 6, 1997 by P. Pravec at Ondřejov.
The word “robot” was invented by Czech writer Josef Čapek for an artificial man in the famous play R. U. R. (“Rossum's Universal Robots”) written by his brother Karel Čapek in 1920. Later it became a general term used for automated devices of various kinds.