roboid
English
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editroboid (plural roboids)
- (science fiction) A robotic creature.
- 1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death:
- A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks.
- 1998, Nigel Kerner, Song of the Greys:
- The terrifying thing about all of this is that we now have a distinct possibility that a hive of aliens with their attendant purely biomechanical roboids the Greys, from another part of our universe, are intercepting and intervening in the affairs of our species.
- 2009, Arnold J. Inzko, The Siblings' Legacy:
- It is their challenge, with the help of Tania, a roboid, to adapt the siblings to their new environment.