Definitions for robot

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robot ro·bot

Spelling: [roh-buh t, -bot]

IPA: /ˈroʊ bət, -bɒt/

Robot is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in robot (boort).

Definitions for robot

noun

1. a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
2. a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another's will; automaton.
3. any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

adjective

1. operating automatically:

Origin of robot

Czech, coined by Karel Čapek in the play R.U.R. (1920) from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotník peasant owing such labor

Examples for robot

But a robot can't take the place of a cop, it's a complex human job.

I ask this because this week, a robot named Hitchbot is setting off on a potentially perilous journey.

JIBO is a robot for the whole family, currently crowdfunding for development.

The goal of the present research is to help create the programming for a robot that is “a sociable partner.”

Then I noticed the tiny glow of light in the robot's eye lenses.

All this kept the robot busy, and we got so used to him we were hardly aware he was around.

I added some things to their music, but “The Girl and the robot” was the first thing we worked on when we were in the same room.

None of us knew the littlest bit about what a robot can or cannot do.

The other culprit, of course, is the one misanthropic jerk who reported “several hundred” names to the Facebook robot.

This was as close as a robot could look to a cop in uniform, without being a joke.