Cyborg vs. Robot

Cyborgnoun

(science fiction) A person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic.

Cyborgnoun

(science fiction) A robot who has an organic past.

Cyborgnoun

A human with electronic or bionic prostheses.

Cyborgnoun

a human being whose body has been taken over in whole or in part by electromechanical devices;

Cyborgnoun

a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.

Cyborg

A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of cybernetic and organism—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.

Robotnoun

A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks by physically moving, especially one which can be programmed.

Robotnoun

An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

Robotnoun

(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

Robotnoun

(South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman).

Robotnoun

(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

Robotnoun

(dance) A style of dance popular in disco in which the dancer imitates the stiff movements of a stereotypical android robot.

Robotnoun

a mechanism that can move automatically

Robotnoun

(especially in science fiction) a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically

Robotnoun

a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer

Robotnoun

a person who behaves in a mechanical or unemotional manner

Robotnoun

another term for crawler

Robotnoun

a set of automatic traffic lights

Robot

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within.