droid
A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
Noun
- A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
- It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them. -...
- “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly. - 1976, George Lucas, [Alan Dean Foster], Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN,...
- The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret. And threats had to...
- A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.
- "Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd. - 2006, Shane Bolks, Reality TV Bites: […], New...
Origin
Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”), coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.