Here's a fun bit of history. Steinberger originally called the project Clawdbot, a play on the Claude model that powered it. Anthropic's legal team wasn't amused and sent a cease-and-desist letter.
He renamed it to Moltbot, but the community pushed back because the name had no connection to the project. So what happened next? A GitHub poll with over 4K votes. The winner: OpenClaw. "Claw" nods to the original name, and "Open" signals its open-source nature.