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Humanoid
A robot built roughly in the shape of a person — a torso, two arms and usually two legs — so it can work in spaces and with tools designed for humans. Companies such as Tesla, Figure and Unitree, and many university labs, are building humanoids driven by AI models.
Origin · no single documented coiner
From Latin humanus plus the Greek-derived suffix -oid (“resembling”), used in English since the early 20th century; applied to robots as they were designed to resemble people. No single coiner.