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Robot vs Photovore - What's the difference?

robot | photovore |

As nouns the difference between robot and photovore

is that robot is while photovore is a robot that is powered by solar cells and moves towards light to "feed".

robot

English

(wikipedia robot)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.
  • * 2010 , Tim Webb, The Guardian , 16 May 2010:
    • It's painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots , equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.
  • (chiefly, science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
  • * 2010 , Tom Chivers and Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph , 26 Jan 2010:
    • The robots in Dick's novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.
  • (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.
  • * Murray N. Rothbard, Making Economic Sense (page xiv)
    • Yet surely he was a humorless robot of a man, spewing forth lonely and bitter critiques of all those lesser mortals with whom he could not identify.
  • (South Africa) A traffic light (from earlier robot policeman ).
  • (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
  • A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Hypernyms

    * automaton

    Hyponyms

    * android

    Derived terms

    * bot * -bot * robotic * robotics * robo-

    See also

    * artificial intelligence * computer * cyborg * domotics * pedipulator * robot revolution South African English English terms derived from fiction ----

    photovore

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A robot that is powered by solar cells and moves towards light to "feed".
  • * 1994 , Edward Rietman, Genesis Redux: Experiments Creating Artificial Life
    • Many of these robots are capable of tracking the sun like a photovore , and thus stay alive. At night, they go into a dormant state.
  • * 2000 , Karl Lunt, Build Your Own Robot!
    • A photovore "race" towards a bright light might take a while to complete.