/
ˈrəʊbɒt/
n.
- a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.
- another term for crawler (in sense 2).
- S. African a set of automatic traffic lights.
Derivative
- robotization
or robotisation n. - robotize
or robotise v.
Etymology
from Czech, from robota ‘forced labour’; the term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).