A bit of trivia (relevant? useful? You decide...) from one of my "word of the day" sites:

Are you a word wiz?
You may be surprised to learn that the word "robot" was
invented not by an engineer but by a writer! Who do you
think invented the word "robot"?

A. French author Jules Verne
B. Czech playwright Karel Capek
C. British author C. S. Lewis
D. American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar

Answer:
In 1920, Czech writer Karel Capek published a play titled
_R.U.R._ Those initials stood for "Rossum's Universal Robots,"
which was the name of a fictional company that manufactured
humanlike machines designed to perform all hard, dull,
dangerous work for people. The machines in the play
eventually grew to resent their jobs and rebelled -- with
disastrous results for humans. Capek formed his name for
those machines, "robot," from the Czech word "robota," which
means "forced labor." "Robot" made its way into our
language in 1923 when _R.U.R._ was translated into English.

....and ima..................

that was kinda neat. i didn't know that. I love un useful knowledge!