humanoid

humanoid — 名詞

1. a machine or robot built to have a body and behaviours similar to those of a per

1.名詞B2
釋義

人形機器

外形像人的機器或生物，尤指機器人

a machine or robot built to have a body and behaviours similar to those of a person, often designed to work in spaces made for humans

例句

The lab assistant noticed that the humanoid could recognise voices better than any previous model.

實驗室助理注意到，這台人形機器人的語音辨識能力比過去的任何機型都要好。

countable noun as object of 'recognise'

Children at the science fair lined up to watch the humanoid dance and tell jokes.

科學展上的孩子們排隊觀看那台人形機器人跳舞和講笑話。

同義詞
  • android

    more specific — suggests a humanoid with advanced artificial intelligence and near-perfect human appearance

  • robot

    broader — includes non-humanoid machines such as robotic arms and vacuum cleaners

  • automaton

    more mechanical and less human-like in behaviour; often implies pre-programmed rather than adaptive actions

文法句型

a + humanoid

the + humanoid

用法筆記

Countable noun. Most common in discussions of robotics, technology news, and science fiction. The term also appears in paleoanthropology for prehistoric human-like species (e.g., Australopithecus), though in everyday use it refers almost exclusively to machines.

常見錯誤

❌The alien in the film was a humanoid with tentacles and scales.
✅The alien in the film was a humanoid creature with two arms and two legs.
💡Humanoid describes something human-shaped; a creature with tentacles is not humanoid.
❌My phone assistant is a humanoid.
✅My phone assistant uses humanoid features like a face on the screen.
💡A voice-activated phone assistant is not a physical machine with a human-like body, so it is not a humanoid.

humanoid — 形容詞