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The word “robot” comes from a Slavic word that means work, which is “rabota” in Russian.
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And the root of “rabota/работа” is “rab/раб”, which means “slave” in Russian.
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I very much enjoyed his War with the Newts.
ETA: ninja’d by @hecep!
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In South Africa, traffic lights are known as “robots”. This causes great confusion for visitors to the country, who expect to see robots when advised to “take a left at the next robot”, and then see only robots, programmed to do nothing more than switch from green to orange to red.
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