极客必知：这些炫酷科幻词是怎么来的

时空旅行、零重力、外星人、赛博朋克，这些炫酷的科幻词汇原来都来自小说家的妙笔生花。

Robotics 机器人学

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.

虽然今天听起来很常见，但机器人学这个名词其实是1941年才出现的，当时科幻作家艾萨克·阿西莫夫在《Astounding Science Fiction》上发表的一篇短篇小说中创造了这个词。过了20年它才真正被接受，到1980年代，机器人学这个词终于进入英语语言中。