humanoid
- noun
- /ˈhjuːməˌnɔɪd/
- I told you, he's a humanoid, a robot.
- robotic humanoid
- most humanoids
- simulated humanoids
Uncanny humanoids, like all creepy things, straddle a line between two regions that we can understand and explain with language.
- Uncanny humanoids, like all creepy things, straddle a line between two regions that we can understand and explain with language.
- Bipeds, quads, arms, humanoids and do something else more obscure.
- All humans, all humanoids were just just grunting all over the world, pointing and brunting.
Examples
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Kirk counted eight humanoids crowded onto the platform, dressed alike in whitish-transparent bags complete with enclosed hands and feet.
Fiction book (2002) -
So here we have our JD Humanoid Robot kit, otherwise known as the Revolution JD.
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Well, no, no, I was thinking more taking a humanoid AI and just sending it off.
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I would have died if not for a young humanoid, Eli.
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"If this patient were any humanoid I'd ever met, he would be dead.
Fiction book (1992) -
And we are building a humanoid robot that will be basically like, like like the car but with legs.
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Have we learned anything from being here on the planet as humanoids for 2 million years?
Blog text (18) -
And if you look at our humanoid robots today, they're designed around features to support humans.
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We have an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na'vi.
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The scientists unveiled a new humanoid robot designed to assist the elderly with daily tasks.
Synonyms
A machine that looks and acts like a human
A machine that moves on its own and acts like a person or animal
A machine made to look and act like a person
How Humanlike
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Humanoid comes from human and the ending -oid, which means 'like' or 'shape' and appears in words like android or asteroid. So a humanoid is a being (for example a robot or an alien) that looks or acts like a human.