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humanoid

humanoid

21 7.2
A machine that looks and moves like a person
  • noun
  • /ˈhjuːməˌnɔɪd/
translation icon : humanoide
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Well, no, no, I was thinking more taking a humanoid AI and just sending it off.

  • I would have died if not for a young humanoid, Eli.

  • "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.

  • 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.

  • We have an indigenous population of humanoids called the Na'vi.

  • The scientists unveiled a new humanoid robot designed to assist the elderly with daily tasks.

Synonyms

android
vshumanoid
57 6.8

A machine that looks and acts like a human

is broader meaning any entity with humanlike traits not necessarily close in behavior
automaton
vshumanoid
  • Specialized
4 7.9

A machine that moves on its own and acts like a person or animal

is specifically about entities with humanlike appearance or traits not general machines
mechanical man
vshumanoid
  • Archaic
1 7.5

A machine made to look and act like a person

is more general covering any entity with humanlike traits or appearance

How Humanlike

human
1.0
android
57 6.8
humanoid
21 7.2
robot
454 2.6

Surface Forms

humanoid singular
humanoids plural

Morphology

humanoid = human (semi-transparent) = human + oid

The meaning 'resembling a human' follows clearly from 'human' + '-oid', but '-oid' is somewhat technical and may be unfamiliar to lower-level learners.

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.