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robot

noun
 
🔊/ˈrəʊbɒt/
🔊/ˈrəʊbɑːt/
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  1.  
     a machine that can perform a complicated series of tasks by itself机器人
    • These cars are built by robots.这些汽车是由机器人制造的。🔊🔊
    • On her first flight she was responsible for operating the shuttle's robot arm. 在她的第一次飞行中，她负责操纵航天飞机的机械臂。
    Topics Businessb1, Engineeringb1
  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（尤指故事中的）机器人
    • a toy robot玩具机器人
    • The action starts when an army of giant robots invades Manhattan.行动开始于一群巨型机器人入侵曼哈顿。
  3. (South African English) a traffic light交通信号灯
    • Turn left at the first robot.在第一个交通信号灯处向左拐。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originfrom Czech, from robota ‘forced labour’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘ Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920).