robot

English

WOTD - 17 December 2006    

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Czech robot, from robota (“drudgery, servitude”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef [1], and taken into the English translation without change.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɹəʊbɒt/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɹoʊbɑt/, /ˈɹoʊbət/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

robot (plural robots)

1. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
   • 2010, Tom Chivers and Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph, 26 Jan 2010:

     The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.

2. (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

   Being a robot, Jessica chose to wear a casual pair of shorts to the funeral and didn't even cry.

3. A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.
   • 2010, Tim Webb, The Guardian, 16 May 2010:

     It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots, equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.

4. (South Africa) A traffic light.
5. (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
6. A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

Hypernyms

• automaton

Hyponyms

• android

Derived terms

• bot
• -bot
• robotic
• robotics
• robo-

Translations

intelligent mechanical being

Afrikaans: robot (af) Albanian: roboti (sq) Arabic: روبوت (ar) (róbut, ruubut) m., إنسان آلي (ar) ('insaan 'aaliy) m. Armenian: ռոբոտ (hy) (ṙobot) Azeri: robot (az) Basque: robot (eu) Belarusian: робат (be) (róbat) m. Bengali: রোবট (bn) Bulgarian: робот (bg) (róbot) m. Catalan: robot (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 機器人 (cmn), 机器人 (cmn) (jīqì rén), 機械人 (cmn), 机械人 (cmn) (jīxièrén) Czech: robot (cs) m. Danish: robot (da) Dutch: robot (nl) Esperanto: roboto (eo) Estonian: robot (et) Finnish: robotti (fi) French: robot (fr) m. Galician: robot (gl) m. Georgian: რობოტი (ka) (roboti) German: Roboter (de) m. Greek: ρομπότ (el) (rompót) m. Hebrew: רובוט (he) (robot) Hindi: रोबोट (hi) (rōbōṭ) m. Hungarian: robot (hu) Icelandic: vélmenni (is) n., róbóti (is) m., þjarki (is) m. Ido: roboto (io) Indonesian: robot (id) Italian: robot (it) m.

Japanese: ロボット (ja) (robotto), 人造人間 (ja) (jinzō ningen) Khmer: រូបយន្ត (km) (roob yon) Korean: 로봇 (ko) (robot) Latin: robotum (la) n. Latvian: robots (lv) Lithuanian: robotas (lt) Macedonian: робот (mk) (róbot) m. Mongolian: робот (mn) (róbot) Norman: robot m. Norwegian: robot (no) Occitan: robòt (oc) m. Persian: روبات (fa) Polish: robot (pl) m. Portuguese: robot (pt) m., robô (pt) m. Romanian: robot (ro) m. Russian: робот (ru) (róbot) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: робот (sh) m. Roman: robot (sh) m. Slovak: robot (sk) m. Slovene: robot (sl) m. Spanish: robot (es) m. Sundanese: robot (su) Swedish: robot (sv) Tamil: ரோபோ (ta) (rōpō) Thai: หุ่นยนต์ (th) (hòonyon) Turkish: robot (tr) Ukrainian: робот (uk) (róbot) m. Urdu: روبوٹ (ur) (rōbōṭ) m., روبالہ (ur) m. Uzbek: robot (uz) Vietnamese: người máy (vi) Yiddish: ראבאט (yi) (robot)

person who does not seem to have any emotions

Galician: robot (gl) m.

Khmer: មនុស្សយន្ត (km) (mo nus yon)

machine to perform complex tasks

Esperanto: roboto (eo)

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Welsh: robot m.

See also

• artificial intelligence
• computer
• cyborg
• domotics

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Catalan

Etymology

From Czech robot.

Noun

robot m. (plural robots)

1. robot

Related terms

• robòtica

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Czech

Etymology

From both the Czech and the Slovak robota. First appeared in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek after having been suggested to him by his brother Josef.

Noun

robot m.

1. robot

Declension

    declension of robot

	singular	plural
nominative	robot	robotové, roboti
genitive	robota	robotů
dative	robotovi, robotu	robotům
accusative	robota	roboty
vocative	robote	robotové, roboti
locative	robotovi, robotu	robotech
instrumental	robotem	roboty

Related terms

• robotika f.
• robota f.
• robit

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Dutch

Noun

robot m. (plural robots or robotten, diminutive robotje)

1. robot

Anagrams

• boort

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʁo.bo/

• Audio

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Etymology

From Czech.

Noun

robot m. (plural robots)

1. robot

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrobot/
• Hyphenation: ro‧bot

Etymology 1

From Bavarian robat, robold, from Czech robota (“forced labour, drudgery”).

Noun

robot (plural robotok)

1. (historical) socage, forced labour
2. (figuratively) hard work, drudgery

Declension

declension of robot singular plural nominative robot robotok accusative robotot robotokat dative robotnak robotoknak instrumental robottal robotokkal causal-final robotért robotokért translative robottá robotokká terminative robotig robotokig essive-formal robotként robotokként essive-modal - - inessive robotban robotokban superessive roboton robotokon adessive robotnál robotoknál illative robotba robotokba sublative robotra robotokra allative robothoz robotokhoz elative robotból robotokból delative robotról robotokról ablative robottól robotoktól

possessives of robot possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. robotom robotjaim 2nd person sing. robotod robotjaid 3rd person sing. robotja robotjai 1st person plural robotunk robotjaink 2nd person plural robototok robotjaitok 3rd person plural robotjuk robotjaik

Derived terms

• robotol
• robotos

Etymology 2

From Czech robot, from robota (“forced labour, drudgery”). Coined in the 1921 science-fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Čapek.

Noun

robot (plural robotok)

1. robot

Declension

Same as above.

Derived terms

• robotember
• robotgép
• robotpilóta
• robotrepülőgép

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Italian

Noun

robot m. inv.

1. robot
2. (computing) bot

Derived terms

• robot da cucina

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Polish

Etymology

From Czech robot

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrɔbɔt̪/

Noun

robot m.

1. robot

Declension

    declension of robot

	singular	plural
nominative	robot	roboty
genitive	robota	robotów
dative	robotowi	robotom
accusative	robota	roboty
instrumental	robotem	robotami
locative	robocie	robotach
vocative	robocie	roboty

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rôbot/
• Hyphenation: ro‧bot

Noun

rȍbot m. (Cyrillic spelling ро̏бот)

1. robot

Declension

    declension of robot

	singular	plural
nominative	robot	roboti
genitive	robota	robota
dative	robotu	robotima
accusative	robot	robote
vocative	robote	roboti
locative	robotu	robotima
instrumental	robotom	robotima

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Slovene

Noun

robot m. (dual robota, plural roboti)

1. robot

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Spanish

Noun

robot m. (plural robots)

1. robot

Related terms

• robótica

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Swedish

Noun

robot c.

1. robot
2. cruise missile

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Turkish

Etymology

From French robot.

Noun

robot

1. robot

Declension

declension of robot

	singular (tekil)	plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın)	robot	robotlar
definite accusative (belirtme)	robotu	robotları
dative (yönelme)	robota	robotlara
locative (bulunma)	robotta	robotlarda
ablative (çıkma)	robottan	robotlardan
genitive (tamlayan)	robotun	robotların