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   robot

   /ˈrəʊbɒt/

   noun

   • 1. (especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically: "the robot closed the door behind us"
   • ▪ a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer: "half of all American robots are making cars or trucks"
   • ▪ a person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner: "public servants are not expected to be mindless robots"
   • 2. another term for crawler
   • 3. a set of automatic traffic lights: South African "waiting at a robot I caught the eye of a young woman"

   Word Origin 1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labour’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).

   Scrabble Points: 7

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