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humanoid

/hyoo-muh-noid or, often, yoo-/US // ˈhyu məˌnɔɪd or, often, ˈyu- //UK // (ˈhjuːməˌnɔɪd) //

人形,人形物体,人形动物,人形生物

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a humanoid being: to search for humanoids in outer space.

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Examples

  • The Massachusetts-based firm shook up the robotics industry in 2013 with its dynamic humanoid robot developed for the Pentagon research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA.

  • The video features a pair of the company’s vaguely humanoid Atlas robots that do the running man along with a litany of other familiar dance moves you might expect from a background dancer in The Blues Brothers.

  • Several videos of the company’s robotic dog Spot, cat Cheetah and humanoid Atlas have gone viral, stoking admiration — and terror — across the Internet.

  • Boston Dynamics is well known inside and out the industry for making some of the most advanced robotics systems on the planet, including BigDog and the humanoid Atlas.

  • From 2014 to 2018 he was also chief scientist at Hanson Robotics, the Hong Kong–based firm that unveiled a talking humanoid robot called Sophia in 2016.

  • What if, instead of saying oddly humanoid remarks like “I love cars,” Mitt decided to do more showing and less telling.

  • They're bipeds—lizardoid rather than humanoid—and are a fairly intelligent and law-abiding lot.

  • However, if the Spican was wearing a suit of plastiflesh that looked remotely humanoid, I would at least stay and talk to him.

  • Vaguely humanoid in shape from the waist up, it was built more like a miniature military tank from the waist down.

  • Think of it this way—here's a race, obviously humanoid, on another star system.

  • The Venusians proved to be a humanoid race of people who used telepathy for communication.