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单词 robot
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Definition of robot in English:

robot

noun ˈrəʊbɒt
  • 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 sci-fi movie about time-travelling killer robots
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Somewhere along the line, he stopped fighting for the robots and tried to protect the humans from them.
    • Even if a robot can love humans, can humans learn to love them back?
    • They also meet and fight Hakaider, an android that looks more robot than human with his exposed brainpan.
    • We still need men to hunker down inside the killing machines, still dream of the day robots will do our bidding so we never need to bloody our hands.
    • It's something that robotics types call the Uncanny Valley, when a robot crosses over from seeming machinelike but hasn't yet achieved true human qualities.
    • Thirty-one years from now, in 2035, there is one robot for every five human beings.
    • As we discover near the film's conclusion, he has apparently developed an ability to create the robots based on pre-existing human forms.
    • The robots are chunky mechanized human figures of the sort that have long delighted little children on both sides of the Pacific.
    • A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the first law.
    • In this movie, the kids use their knowledge of the human skeleton, joints, and muscles to build a robot.
    • He has suggested that robots with artificial intelligence will gain consciousness, supercede human intelligence, and ultimately become autonomous.
    • The film was very funny, with a young punk kid teaching an emotionless robot how to be more human, creating many funny and moving moments.
    • Some of the best science fiction is not necessarily about robots and giant monsters - although I love those too.
    • Mike was happy to demonstrate a 4-foot robot made of mostly car parts that wailed its arms when controlled by remote.
    • In the play, the robots, having acquired human emotions, rebel against their servile status and destroy their masters.
    • When a scientist is murdered, apparently by a robot, detective Del Spooner, is asked to investigate, even though such a crime would violate the Laws of Robotics, which state that a robot can never harm a human being.
    • The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
    • We will see a time where humans and robots coexist without complicated interpersonal family issues or blind machine prejudice.
    • Whether such a robot could sustain for years the complex of attitudes and behaviors constitutive of a parent's love for a child is difficult to say.
    • The new NS 5 Automated Domestic Assistant carries out all your household chores, and robots also collect garbage, deliver packages, walk dogs.
    Synonyms
    automaton, android, machine, golem
    1. 1.1 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
      as modifier a robot arm
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Science and design also are brought together with interactive robots and large-scale computer graphics.
      • However I called Julie the AMTRAK Robot and learned that Train 97 was running about 47 minutes late.
      • Another robot grabs and places a wooden pallet, then lays down a cardboard slip sheet before stacking cases two at a time for a total of 40 on each pallet, which are then stretchwrapped.
      • On her first flight Chawla was responsible for operating the shuttle's robot arm.
      • This robot should be able to go 40 or 50 kilometers, and really determine if there's life on Mars and what kind of life there really is.
      • For adults, it seems like robot vacuums and iPods are getting a lot of play.
      • Now that robots and computer simulations are replacing bench science, architects are giving researchers new laboratory environments that facilitate the exchange of ideas and bring together experts of many disciplines.
      • They are using a robot named SAM in some cities in the States to lay fiber-optic cables underground.
      • The body shop uses programmable robots with fixed tooling.
      • He quickly loaded it, associating the robot arm controller object with the program.
      • In constructing the mobile robots to explore Mars' surface, the program involves a curriculum unit and a contest.
      Synonyms
      automaton, android, machine, golem
    2. 1.2 A person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner.
      public servants are not expected to be mindless robots
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The lead character changed physically, reinforcing his point that no matter what physical changes we can undergo we're all just genetically programmed robots here.
      • People cannot do that unless they're living in a dictatorship and want to be dictated to behave like robots.
      • Movies are not computers, and we're not robots, though the industry likes to think that.
  • 2Computing

    another term for crawler
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What's good for the visitor is often good for the search engine robots.
    • Search engine robots are automated programs that traverse the web, indexing page content and following links.
  • 3South African A set of automatic traffic lights.

    waiting at a robot I caught the eye of a young woman

Origin

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

  • This is one of the few English words to have come from Czech—from robota ‘forced labour’. The term was coined in Karel Čapek's play R.U.R., or Rossum's Universal Robots (1920), when it described an artificial man or woman.

 
 

Definition of robot in US English:

robot

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 sci-fi movie about time-traveling killer robots
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We still need men to hunker down inside the killing machines, still dream of the day robots will do our bidding so we never need to bloody our hands.
    • The new NS 5 Automated Domestic Assistant carries out all your household chores, and robots also collect garbage, deliver packages, walk dogs.
    • In this movie, the kids use their knowledge of the human skeleton, joints, and muscles to build a robot.
    • We will see a time where humans and robots coexist without complicated interpersonal family issues or blind machine prejudice.
    • Somewhere along the line, he stopped fighting for the robots and tried to protect the humans from them.
    • Some of the best science fiction is not necessarily about robots and giant monsters - although I love those too.
    • It's something that robotics types call the Uncanny Valley, when a robot crosses over from seeming machinelike but hasn't yet achieved true human qualities.
    • In the play, the robots, having acquired human emotions, rebel against their servile status and destroy their masters.
    • The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
    • A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the first law.
    • When a scientist is murdered, apparently by a robot, detective Del Spooner, is asked to investigate, even though such a crime would violate the Laws of Robotics, which state that a robot can never harm a human being.
    • As we discover near the film's conclusion, he has apparently developed an ability to create the robots based on pre-existing human forms.
    • The film was very funny, with a young punk kid teaching an emotionless robot how to be more human, creating many funny and moving moments.
    • Even if a robot can love humans, can humans learn to love them back?
    • The robots are chunky mechanized human figures of the sort that have long delighted little children on both sides of the Pacific.
    • Thirty-one years from now, in 2035, there is one robot for every five human beings.
    • Whether such a robot could sustain for years the complex of attitudes and behaviors constitutive of a parent's love for a child is difficult to say.
    • Mike was happy to demonstrate a 4-foot robot made of mostly car parts that wailed its arms when controlled by remote.
    • He has suggested that robots with artificial intelligence will gain consciousness, supercede human intelligence, and ultimately become autonomous.
    • They also meet and fight Hakaider, an android that looks more robot than human with his exposed brainpan.
    Synonyms
    automaton, android, machine, golem
    1. 1.1 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
      as modifier a robot arm
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another robot grabs and places a wooden pallet, then lays down a cardboard slip sheet before stacking cases two at a time for a total of 40 on each pallet, which are then stretchwrapped.
      • Science and design also are brought together with interactive robots and large-scale computer graphics.
      • They are using a robot named SAM in some cities in the States to lay fiber-optic cables underground.
      • For adults, it seems like robot vacuums and iPods are getting a lot of play.
      • On her first flight Chawla was responsible for operating the shuttle's robot arm.
      • However I called Julie the AMTRAK Robot and learned that Train 97 was running about 47 minutes late.
      • This robot should be able to go 40 or 50 kilometers, and really determine if there's life on Mars and what kind of life there really is.
      • Now that robots and computer simulations are replacing bench science, architects are giving researchers new laboratory environments that facilitate the exchange of ideas and bring together experts of many disciplines.
      • In constructing the mobile robots to explore Mars' surface, the program involves a curriculum unit and a contest.
      • He quickly loaded it, associating the robot arm controller object with the program.
      • The body shop uses programmable robots with fixed tooling.
      Synonyms
      automaton, android, machine, golem
    2. 1.2 A person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner.
      public servants are not expected to be mindless robots
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The lead character changed physically, reinforcing his point that no matter what physical changes we can undergo we're all just genetically programmed robots here.
      • Movies are not computers, and we're not robots, though the industry likes to think that.
      • People cannot do that unless they're living in a dictatorship and want to be dictated to behave like robots.
  • 2Computing

    another term for crawler
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What's good for the visitor is often good for the search engine robots.
    • Search engine robots are automated programs that traverse the web, indexing page content and following links.

Origin

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

 
 
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