I think I recall @feraldata@twitter.com talking about this, but I was just listening to a podcast that mentioned that the word “robot” comes from “robota”, a Czech word which originally meant “forced labor”. 1/n
The word “robot” then is associated with slavery. There are plenty of sci fi stories of course about robots rebelling against their taskmasters. 2/n
Origin of the term 'robot'
'Robot' was first applied as a term for artificial automata in the 1920 play R.U.R. by the Czech writer, Karel Čapek. However, Josef Čapek was named by his brother Karel as the true inventor of the term robot.[6][7] The word 'robot' itself was not new, having been in the Slavic language as robota (forced labor), a term applied to peasants obligated to compulsory service under the feudal system (see: Robot Patent).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
