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n. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance.

n. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control.

n. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.

n. A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.

n. An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

n. A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

n. A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).

n. A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

n. A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

n. a mechanism that can move automatically

"The term robot derives from the Czech word robit, meaning "work," and came into wide use in 1923 when Karl Capek wrote a play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), in which mechanical beings did all the work for man."

mechanism   

computer    artificial intelligence    cyborg    domotics   

android    humanoid    mechanical man   

-bot    bot    robo-    robotics    robotic   

machine    computer    vehicle    aircraft    monster    creature    unit    weapon    being    giant