- pronunciation:
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bat
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part of speech: |
noun |
definition: |
a machine that can perform some of the same tasks as a human being.
Robots do some of the work of building cars.
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derivations: |
robotic (adj.), robotlike (adj.) |
Robot comes from a Czech word that means "forced labor." The word
robot was first used in a play about mechanical men that were built to do all the hard physical labor of a society.