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robot

Syllabification: (ro·bot)

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Definition of robot

noun

  • a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.
  • (especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically.
  • used to refer to a person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner:public servants are not expected to be mindless robots

Origin:

from Czech, from robota 'forced labor'. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. 'Rossum's Universal Robots' (1920)

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