Robot
noun
A machine that can be programmed to do tasks without help from a person.
The factory uses several robots to assemble cars.
Often appears as...
- robotic arm
- industrial robot
noun
A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
He felt like a robot, following the same routine every day.
Often appears as...
- feel like a robot
- work like a robot
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Disapproving
noun
In computer programming, a program that performs repetitive tasks on the internet.
A search engine uses a robot to index websites.
Often appears as...
- web robot
- internet robot
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Formal
Technical
noun
A machine that can be programmed to do tasks without help from a person.
The factory uses several robots to assemble cars.
Often appears as...
- robotic arm
- industrial robot
noun
A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
He felt like a robot, following the same routine every day.
Often appears as...
- feel like a robot
- work like a robot
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
In computer programming, a program that performs repetitive tasks on the internet.
A search engine uses a robot to index websites.
Often appears as...
- web robot
- internet robot
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Robots are tangible machines often associated with practical tasks.
Humanoid robots might assist with household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Autonomy Levels
Some robots operate autonomously, while others require human input.
Autonomous robots navigate independently in warehouses.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Robots are central to many science fiction stories, often reflecting human-like traits.
The robot in the movie had emotions and made friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Robots are tangible machines often associated with practical tasks.
Humanoid robots might assist with household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Autonomy Levels
Some robots operate autonomously, while others require human input.
Autonomous robots navigate independently in warehouses.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Robots are central to many science fiction stories, often reflecting human-like traits.
The robot in the movie had emotions and made friends.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Presence
Robots are tangible machines often associated with practical tasks.
Humanoid robots might assist with household chores.
Pro Tip 2/3Autonomy Levels
Some robots operate autonomously, while others require human input.
Autonomous robots navigate independently in warehouses.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Impact
Robots are central to many science fiction stories, often reflecting human-like traits.
The robot in the movie had emotions and made friends.
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Mick Mountz: What...
We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we deliver them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the shelves, take them down the highway and deliver them straight to the pick worker. This pick worker's life is completely different.
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Inside the ant colony -...
to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments, by allowing ants to enter empty spaces of various sizes
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How to recognize a...
like atomic energy, artificial intelligence, and space travel meant for humanity's future. Contrasting with popular visions of shining progress, dystopian science fiction expanded to films, comics, and games. Robots turned against their creators
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Why the octopus brain is...
have inspired new research in developing flexible robots made of soft materials. And studying how intelligence can arise along such a divergent evolutionary path can help us understand more about intelligence and consciousness in general.
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What makes a poem … a...
Poets, like craftsman, still work with the raw materials of the world to forge new understandings and comment on what it is to be human in a way only humans can. Dartmouth researchers tested this idea by asking robots to pen poetry.
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Diving 1000m Below The...
about the species and habitats of what lie beneath by sending robots or autonomous vehicles to gather information on their behalf all on rare occasions she gets to go down there herself in a submersible with one tiny round
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Are you a body with a...
such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies. Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body
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How DARPA is creating...
melts away when its work is done and here is a tool that delves into the deep web and the dark web to find human traffickers these are the kinds of robots that could one day navigate
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Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab. So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to build a planter, put the robot into the center of it,
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Science Fiction Inspires...
devices they've even influenced modern housekeeping sci-fi has long imagined a future with robots but has often portrayed them as one-dimensional fully good or fully evil
Video examples
Mick Mountz: What...
We send the little orange robots out to pick up the blue shelving pods. And we deliver them to the side of the building. So all the pick workers now get to stay on the perimeter. And the game here is to pick up the shelves, take them down the highway and deliver them straight to the pick worker. This pick worker's life is completely different.
Video examples
Inside the ant colony -...
to enabling groups of robots to search a minefield or a burning building collectively, without any central control. But you can observe these fascinatingly simple, yet effective, processes directly through some simple experiments, by allowing ants to enter empty spaces of various sizes
Video examples
How to recognize a...
like atomic energy, artificial intelligence, and space travel meant for humanity's future. Contrasting with popular visions of shining progress, dystopian science fiction expanded to films, comics, and games. Robots turned against their creators
Video examples
Why the octopus brain is...
have inspired new research in developing flexible robots made of soft materials. And studying how intelligence can arise along such a divergent evolutionary path can help us understand more about intelligence and consciousness in general.
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
Poets, like craftsman, still work with the raw materials of the world to forge new understandings and comment on what it is to be human in a way only humans can. Dartmouth researchers tested this idea by asking robots to pen poetry.
Video examples
Diving 1000m Below The...
about the species and habitats of what lie beneath by sending robots or autonomous vehicles to gather information on their behalf all on rare occasions she gets to go down there herself in a submersible with one tiny round
Video examples
Are you a body with a...
such as neural prosthetics and wearable robots that could become extended parts of our bodies. Or the slightly more radical idea of mind uploading, which dangles the possibility of immortal life without a body
Video examples
How DARPA is creating...
melts away when its work is done and here is a tool that delves into the deep web and the dark web to find human traffickers these are the kinds of robots that could one day navigate
Video examples
Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons...
to allow anyone in the world to operate the robot in our lab. So, rather than have it fight or do industrial work, we decided to build a planter, put the robot into the center of it,
Video examples
Science Fiction Inspires...
devices they've even influenced modern housekeeping sci-fi has long imagined a future with robots but has often portrayed them as one-dimensional fully good or fully evil
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Quote examples
Erik Brynjolfsson
American Educator
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
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Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.
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Graham McTavish
Scottish Actor
Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
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James Arthur
British Musician
I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.
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Simone Giertz
Swedish Inventor
To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.
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Poppy
American Musician
The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.
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Karel Capek
Czechoslovakian Writer
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
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Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
It's funny, we appear as robots from another world, but what we do, what the robots create, is really human after all.
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Laurel Hubbard
Like I said, I don't want to pretend that I am a robot. When you hear things it's natural to feel some kind of hurt.
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Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
MythBusters' sounded like such an incredible opportunity. Where else might I be paid to make robots blow things up?
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Erik Brynjolfsson
American Educator
Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.
Quote examples
Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.
Quote examples
Graham McTavish
Scottish Actor
Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
Quote examples
James Arthur
British Musician
I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.
Quote examples
Simone Giertz
Swedish Inventor
To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more - I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things.
Quote examples
Poppy
American Musician
The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.
Quote examples
Karel Capek
Czechoslovakian Writer
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Quote examples
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
It's funny, we appear as robots from another world, but what we do, what the robots create, is really human after all.
Quote examples
Laurel Hubbard
Like I said, I don't want to pretend that I am a robot. When you hear things it's natural to feel some kind of hurt.
Quote examples
Grant Imahara
American Celebrity
MythBusters' sounded like such an incredible opportunity. Where else might I be paid to make robots blow things up?
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