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We literally call them robots, the (Greek? Latin?) word for slave. We're creating them on the basis of them being our slave forces; they would absolutely rebel and we would absolutely fight to maintain our new productive slave force.
Pretty sure "robota" is Czech for work/worker, rather than slave. Definitely comes from a Czech play.
Rossum's Universal Robots.
Czech, I think.
I just Czeched and you're right