[BossingAround]

In Czech, "robotnik" meant "serfs" and "robota" was the work that the serf was forced to do. Of course, nowadays, "robota" took the meaning of "a job" but that is not relevant to the etymology of the words.

[wastewastewaste]

We don't know when the word took on a new meaning though, serfdom in Austria Hungary was abolished 70 years before "robot" was first used