Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kids have taken up an anti-robot and anti-AI slang term. But some are treading carefully around the use of a slur — even against ...

A Czech playwright introduced the word to English in the 1920s. But back then, it wasn't analogous to machinery. New interpretations of the robot... A play about the revolt of human workers — not ...

Updated September 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM CDT Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, ...