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Re:Rename "master/slave" terminology to "client/server" (2008) by derleth on Sunday December 01, 2013 @08:55AM (#6827261)
> "Robot" is etymologically derived from a Slavic word for slave ("Rab" in Russian, apparently).

More immediately, it's Czech for 'worker': Karel Čapek, the person who coined the word as it's now used in English for his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), was Czech.

Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

R.U.R.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

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Re:Rename "master/slave" terminology to "client/server" (2008) by H4wk_cz on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:31AM (#6827366)
Robot isn't czech for worker. It is derived from czech robota: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robota
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