[ˈrəʊbɒt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- (especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically
(e.g: the robot closed the door behind us)


- a set of automatic traffic lights
(e.g: waiting at a robot I caught the eye of a young woman)


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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)