Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form or characteristics of man; human.
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- adjective Like a
human or that of a human inform ,seeming , orappearance .
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Examples
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The Evas, from the series Neon Genesis: Evangelion, are skyscraper-sized humaniform robots built to defeat the "Angels" -- monstrous beings with no consistent morphology or predictable method of attack.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction? 2010
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Only this time it's the murder of one of her robots, Jander - a humaniform robot similar to Daneel.
Revisiting The Robot Novels Kev 2010
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Only this time it's the murder of one of her robots, Jander - a humaniform robot similar to Daneel.
Archive 2010-04-01 Kev 2010
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Daneel Olivaw, a humaniform positronic robot beholden by the all-important Three Laws of Robotics.
Archive 2010-04-01 Kev 2010
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The Sci-Fi murder mysteries starting terran Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner R. Daneel Olivaw would also be a nice vehicle for a new franchise.
Ten Science Fiction Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008
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Daneel Olivaw, a humaniform positronic robot beholden by the all-important Three Laws of Robotics.
Revisiting The Robot Novels Kev 2010
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Backward like the fat, plastic robot who came out first and told us take-my-wife jokes, or the one that followed, a beefy-looking humaniform who sang to us in a fine contralto blur.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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How the hell could he fight in the first Cylon War -- and be good friends with Adama, so there's someone who's actually known him all this time -- and yet be a humaniform cylon ... before such things existed.
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In this “Stepford Wives” meets “The Matrix” world, most people carry out their daily actions through the use of humaniform robots.
Trailer for Bruce Willis’ new “Surrogates” sci-fi action film 2009
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But just to make the distinction I see clear, I think it's not necessarily the case that tormenting humaniform simulacra, whatever the medium, is bad for your soul (or rather, morally wrong) -- I think it's only if, in so tormenting them, you engage with them or conceive of them, psychologically, as fellow-humans that it becomes really reprehensible (leaving aside the problem of psychopaths who don't really see their actual fellow-humans as fellow-humans).
If your robot seems human enough, would it not damage your soul to mistreat it? Ann Althouse 2006
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