alt Hacker NewsWell, to be pedantic, if it's 19th century it would have to be an automaton. The word robot wasn't coined until 1923.
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PeterWhittaker • yesterday at 9:20 PM
The actual title of the short uses the word "automate", French for "automaton"; I suspect NPR simply used the more familiar word in their headline for clarity.
mig39 • yesterday at 9:33 PM
You didn't read the link, did you? This is addressed in the article.
From the article
> (The word "robot" didn't appear until 1921, when Czech dramatist Karel Čapek coined it in his science fiction play R.U.R..)