robodroid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

robo- +‎ droid

Noun[edit]

robodroid (plural robodroids)

  1. (science fiction, rare) A droid; a robot.
    • 1991, New Unionist:
      The police authorities and the press portray them as modern-day robodroids, programmed to kill their own people—"black-on-black crime ...
    • 1999, Mona the Vampire, "The X-Change Student" (season 1, episode 6a):
      Mona: They've sent to the robodroids to soften us up! Run!
    • 2018, Rhoda Belleza, Blood of a Thousand Stars, Penguin, →ISBN, page 141:
      All the robodroids had followed his command and shut themselves down.