The idea comes from a cross between Asimov's "I, Robot" series, and the Apple iMac. Combine these, and you get...the iRobot. This was well before the Will Smith movie or before I'd even heard of the robot company called iRobot (there's a chance I got the name first, but that's hard to verify).
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