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It’s 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

August 6, 2025

A pair of 1X androids are displayed at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) at ExCel on May 30, 2023 in London, England. Leon Neal/Getty Images Europe

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Debate over the song of the summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front runner would surely be the onomatopoeiac, clanker.

In recent weeks clanker has risen to viral levels on TikTok and Instagram. One popular video from July shows a delivery robot on wheels – the kind that looks like a mobile cooler with flashing lights that

It’s 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots

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