mechanoid
nounEtymology From mechano- + -oid.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction 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.1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:
- Synonyms
- android
- Derived terms
- biomechanoid