I thought it was a peep show reference based on all the POV training videos.
Then again I read Harry Potter to my kids about 20 years ago and don’t remember much from it.
Truly an awful choice of name
Robot slavery
A slavery justified in the narrative by being a kind of sapient creature that simply naturally prefers slavery. And named after the one who wanted freedom due to, supposedly, being a weird exception to boot
to be fair, that's what robot means etymologically