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robotise Definition


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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.



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