robotic

UK: /rəʊˈbɒtɪk/

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

ro•bot /ˈroʊbət, -bɑt/   n. [countable]

1. Mechanical Engineering a machine that looks something like a human and does mechanical tasks.
2. Mechanical Engineering a machine that performs such tasks automatically.
3. one who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner:
   In his new job he became a robot, mindlessly filling out forms.

ro•bot•ic, adj. 

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

ro•bot  (rō′bət, -bot), n. 

1. Mechanical Engineering a machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
2. a person who acts and responds in a mechanical, routine manner, usually subject to another's will; automaton.
3. Mechanical Engineering any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.

adj. 

4. Mechanical Engineering operating automatically:
   a robot train operating between airline terminals.

• Czech, coined by  Karel  Čapek in the play R.U.R. (1920) from the base robot-, as in robota compulsory labor, robotník peasant owing such labor

ro′bot•ism, n. 
ro′bot′ic, ro•bot•is•tic  (rō′bə tis′tik, -bo-), adj.  ro′bot•like′, adj.