Mechanoid

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A robot that is designed to look and act like a human.

    "Originally he'd entered the Game to rescue the others. He was a sanitation Mechanoid, programmed to clean, and, in theory, should have been immune to the Game's lure. But he wasn't."

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"Originally he'd entered the Game to rescue the others. He was a sanitation Mechanoid, programmed to clean, and, in theory, should have been immune to the Game's lure. But he wasn't."

Etymology

From mechano- + -oid.

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