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robot
[ roh-bot ]
noun
- a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
- a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another's will; automaton.
- any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.
adjective
- operating automatically:
a robot train operating between airline terminals.
robot
/ ˈrəʊbɒt /
noun
- any automated machine programmed to perform specific mechanical functions in the manner of a man
- modifier not controlled by man; automatic
a robot pilot
- a person who works or behaves like a machine; automaton
- a set of traffic lights
robot
/ rō′bŏt′ /
- A machine designed to replace human beings in performing a variety of tasks, either on command or by being programmed in advance.
Derived Forms
- ˈrobot-ˌlike, adjective
- roˈbotic, adjective
- ˈrobotism, noun
Other Words From
- ro·bot·ism noun
- ro·bot·ic [roh-, bot, -ik], ro·bo·tis·tic [roh-b, uh, -, tis, -tik, -bo-], adjective
- ro·bot·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of robot1
Word History and Origins
Origin of robot1
Example Sentences
Neuralink is building a brain-machine interface as well as a little robot that installs it into your skull.
The company’s new research aims to train AI using both visual and audio data, letting smart robots detect and follow objects that make noise as well as use sounds to understand a physical space.
In 2015, its president joked that by 2020 robots would score gymnastics.
A robot beetle goes the distance on its own thanks to a methanol-fueled micromuscle.
My colleagues and I began putting robots with samplers into the Dry Valley lakes.
Luke Skywalker is an evil robot who has fallen to the dark side of the force.
“The laser-wielding robot is a real threat,” Hetflaisz says.
The other culprit, of course, is the one misanthropic jerk who reported “several hundred” names to the Facebook robot.
The goal of the present research is to help create the programming for a robot that is “a sociable partner.”
“Technology enables dissent,” the former NSA contractor told the crowd of thousands via video screen, this time sans robot.
A squat robot with undulating arms passed by him, its arms weaving inquiringly.
Even the big robot with its two waving eyestalks retreated respectfully as he approached.
Jordan's brows contracted as he tried to understand the robot.
Are these robot-confessors present in the closed classrooms?
"A machine cannot be coerced," the robot-confessor told him.
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