robot-like Definition

robot
noun

1. Especially in science-fiction: a machine that vaguely resembles a human being and which can be programmed to carry out tasks. Compare android.

Thesaurus: automaton, machine, android, humanoid.
2. An automatic machine that can be programmed to perform specific tasks.
3. colloq
Someone who works efficiently but who lacks human warmth or sensitivity.
(chiefly S Afr)
4. An automatic traffic signal.

Derivative: robotic
adj

Derivative: robotize
verb

To automate (a job, etc).

Derivative: robot-like
adj

Etymology: 20c: Czech (in the title of Karl Capek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), from robota forced labour.