It backwards: first common application of the technology gave it the name.
Like in one of the Stanisław Lem's stories about Ijon Tichy people call intelligent anthropomorphic robots washing machines.
Like in one of the Stanisław Lem's stories about Ijon Tichy people call intelligent anthropomorphic robots washing machines.
From the dictionary:
robot, origin: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor.’ The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).