droid

Meaning

Noun

• A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
• A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.

Origin

• , (born 1927) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.