robot

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

robot [robot robots] BrE [ˈrəʊbɒt] NAmE [ˈroʊbɑːt] noun
1. a machine that can perform a complicated series of tasks automatically
•These cars are built by robots.
2. (especially in stories) a machine that is made to look like a human and that can do some things that a human can do
3. (SAfrE)a ↑traffic light
•Turn left at the first robot.

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

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  automaton, golem