robot

IPA: rˈoʊbɑt

(now historical) A system of serfdom used in Central Europe, under which a tenant's rent was paid in forced labour.
(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.
(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).
(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
(dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.
(Internet slang, 4chan) A habitual poster on the /r9k/ board on 4chan; a member of the /r9k/ community.

Examples of "robot" in Sentences

They deformed the robot.
The robot was moving forward.
The man made the robot animate.
There are faithful robotic servants.
Cyberina is the robotic fairy of the city.
The magnets stick to the metal of the robots.
Clanky is a robot and the founder of the league.
A hexapod robot is a mechanical vehicle that walks on six legs.
It became the first totally automatic robotic observatory in the world.
The word "robot" comes from the Czech word "robotnik", meaning serf, or
On the other hand, kinematics might properly be part of robotics and not robots.
But the space program uses the term robot broadly — and the humor has been a little broad, too.
Although the term robot may suggest science fiction or exotic gadgets from Japan, robots are commonly used today in industry and the military.
The 1/1-scale, 18-meter-tall statue of the title robot from the Gundam anime franchise was unveiled on Friday at its new home in central Japanese city of Shizuoka, the self-described "model capital of the world."
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.