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# robot

«robot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that can do jobs by itself, following a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (robot, robots)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A robot is a machine that can do jobs by itself, following a program; some move and act like a person or an animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#m1)

2) A robot can also mean a person who acts without feeling or thinking, like a machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#m2)

3) In South Africa, a robot is a traffic light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: things counted or built; robots that make items at a rate; total = rate × hours × robots. In science and technology: coding robots, sensors, robots in factories, on Mars and in hospitals. In everyday life: robot vacuum cleaners, robot toys. In stories: friendly and scary robots in films and books.

### examples

- A robot makes 12 toys an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x1)
- The club built 4 robots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x2)
- Each robot needs 6 batteries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x3)
- How many toys do 3 robots make in 5 hours? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x4)
- We programmed a small robot to move in a square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x5)
- A robot rover explores the surface of Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x6)
- Robots build cars in big factories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x7)
- Our robot vacuum cleans the floor by itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x8)
- In the film, the robot learns to make friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/#x9)

### note

Often a worker with a rate per hour: total = rate × hours × robots. Trap: none. A robot only does what it is programmed to do; it does not think or feel like a person. The word comes from a Czech play and an old word for hard work.

### In the corpora

- [A chatbot is only words on a screen; it has no hands, and robots that handle things are a much harder problem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/16/)
- [Some restaurants use simple robots, guided by sensors, to carry food to tables.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/18-cars-doctors-translators/15/)
- [Most AI is not a talking robot; it is small and quiet, hidden inside things you use without thinking.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/0/)
- [People hope robots and AI will help with boring chores, but real home robots are still clumsy and expensive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/6/)
- [Robot pets already exist, but they are not living animals and do not need or feel care the way real pets do.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/24-future-hopes/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «robot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/robot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.