ROBOTS ARE THE PEOPLE, and they have been for a long, long time…
I still have more questions than answers on this one!
The word ‘Robot’ came from a Czech play ? rab, Hebrew anyone?
“…The word itself derives from the Czech word “robota,” or forced labor, as done by serfs.
It’s Slavic linguistic root, “rab,”[?] means “slave.” The original word for robots more accurately defines androids, then, in that they were neither metallic nor mechanical. Jul 29, 2019…”
https://archive.is/qHTqN ARCHIVED FROM https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/origin-word-robot-rur/#
...from embodied AI toward new understandings of personhood https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160791X99000214
quote: Robots in Greek [sic] means “slave”. But the word literally means “forced to work”.
The Grauniacs were kind enough to add the [sic] and the link to an article which correctly states: ‘Roboti’ derives from the Old Church Slavanic [sic! –LH] ‘rabota’, meaning ‘servitude’, which in turn comes from ‘rabu’, meaning ‘slave’. Sep 26, 2020