Examples of “robot” in a Sentence

noun A machine, often shaped like a person, built to move and perform tasks on its own or under programmed control.

• A little robot vacuum glided around the living room, avoiding the furniture.
• The factory installed robots to weld car parts on the assembly line.
• She built a small robot for her school science fair.

noun A piece of software that automatically carries out tasks online, such as crawling web pages or replying to messages.

• Search engines send a robot to read new pages on the website.
• The chat robot answered customers' questions even after the office had closed.
• A robot scans the site every night to check for broken links.

noun A person who behaves in a stiff, mechanical, or emotionless way.

• After years on the night shift, he moved around like a robot.
• Don't be such a robot; tell us what you really think!
• He answered every question like a robot, showing no feeling at all.