Depends how much you want to abstract hardware and software to define "machine". But the words roots trace back to the old Church Slavonic word "robota" for se

Depends how much you want to abstract hardware and software to define "machine". But the words roots trace back to the old Church Slavonic word "robota" for servitude/forced labor/drudgery [0]. In that context even a calculator could be considered a "robot". [0] https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-word-robot/ https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/the-origin-of-the-wor...