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robot

robot /roˈbot/

noun#2851 most common

Also: kitchen appliance/food processor (robot de bucătărie), answering machine (robot telefonic)

Example sentences

Acesta este un robot.
This is a robot.
Copilul se joacă cu robotul lui.
The child is playing with his robot.
Fabrica folosește roboți pentru asamblarea mașinilor.
The factory uses robots to assemble cars.
Robotul de bucătărie ne ajută să tăiem legumele rapid.
The kitchen appliance helps us cut vegetables fast.
Inginerii au programat robotului o nouă secvență de mișcări.
The engineers programmed a new sequence of movements into the robot.
Dezbaterea despre drepturile roboților a devenit tot mai actuală odată cu progresul inteligenței artificiale.
The debate about the rights of robots has become more pressing as artificial intelligence advances.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativerobotulroboții
Genitiverobotuluiroboților
Accusativerobotulroboții
Vocativerobotuleroboților

Word family

roboțirobots (plural)
roboțellittle robot (diminutive)
roboticărobotics
roboticrobotic
robotizato automate, to robotize

Etymology

Romanian borrowed "robot" directly, like most European languages, from Czech playwright Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R., which coined the term for artificial workers. Čapek built it on Czech "robota," meaning forced labor or drudgery. That word traces back to a Slavic root for servitude, itself rooted in an old Indo-European word for someone stripped of free status. The word entered Romanian in the 20th century essentially unchanged, alongside the same borrowing in English, French, and German.

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