Meanings
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noun
A machine that can carry out tasks automatically, often programmed to move and work like a person.
We have a robot in the house that does the vacuuming.
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noun
A piece of software that performs tasks automatically.
A robot crawls the web to index pages for search engines.
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3
noun
A person who seems to have no emotions or personality.
He answered every question like a robot, with no feeling at all.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃órbʰos Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas Proto-Slavic *orbъ Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei Proto-Slavic *-iti Proto-Slavic *orbiti Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂ Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ Proto-Slavic *-ota Proto-Slavic *orbota Old Czech robota Czech robota Czech robotbor. English robot Borrowed from Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1920 science-fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Jos…