as in human
looking or acting like a human being
humanoid robots The movie is about humanoid aliens invading Earth.
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Recent Examples of humanoid
Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
And the company has been asking investors to focus on its plans for dedicated robotaxis, driverless software, humanoid robots and supercomputers, instead of its core automotive business.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Tesla's plan to put a can-do-anything-for-you humanoid on the market still looks a long way off.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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Musk has repeatedly tied Tesla’s future to autonomous driving and humanoid robots, rather than simply selling electric vehicles and batteries.
—Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
And the company has been asking investors to focus on its plans for dedicated robotaxis, driverless software, humanoid robots and supercomputers, instead of its core automotive business.
—Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
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Sally Hawkins stars in a dialogue-free role as Elisa, a janitor at a top-secret research facility who falls for the amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) trapped in one of the facility's labs.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Tesla's plan to put a can-do-anything-for-you humanoid on the market still looks a long way off.
—Nathan Bomey, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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The whole point of fast transit programs like BRT is to get more people to ride transit instead of driving, thereby increasing the total human capacity of a road since buses are much more space-efficient than cars.David Zipper, Vox, 13 Nov. 2024
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Police investigate after a human head washed ashore on Key Biscayne, Fla., on Tuesday morning.Antonio Planas, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Once a reasonable ruler, King Solon (Javier Bardem) is now a speechless blue beast — albeit the cartoon-cute version of a rhinoceros-size creature, sporting an endearing underbite and an easily distractable, dog-like personality.Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 Nov. 2024
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Even in an era of record-breaking species loss, the wild corners of the Earth may still harbor creatures long feared extinct.Kate Wheeling, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
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The prevalence of forearm fractures in hominids indicates that parents of the past did not have the luxury of preventing climbing and falling, an intrinsic part of their niche.Carly Miller, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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The Hobbit Relatives The team used that bone to calculate the ancient hominid’s height as 42 inches.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
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The last person to pull that off was Navy’s Roger Staubach in 1963.Sarah Kelly, The Denver Post, 16 Nov. 2024
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Reddish was ruled out an hour before tipoff because of a right peroneal strain – irritation or inflammation in the tendons that run along the outside of a person’s ankle and foot.Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 16 Nov. 2024
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Many Democrats campaigned on a tax-the-rich agenda and advocated paying for other tax cuts by targeting those provisions, as well as rolling back the law’s tax cuts for corporations and individuals making more than $400,000 per year.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Webster-Bass is interested in using investigative storytelling through audio reporting to amplify the voices of individuals from diverse backgrounds.Talia Buford, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
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Death, her ex-lover, grants her some time but warns that neither mortal can outrun their ultimate fate.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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Time just seems to fly and fly with no regard for us mere mortals.Erik Kain, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Following the historic political comeback by Trump — a man who won the 45th presidency, lost his first bid for reelection, was found guilty on felony charges in a hush money trial and faced two assassination attempts — here's how people around Louisville are feeling.Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024
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Both men have at times drawn criticism from health experts for spreading misinformation.Maya Goldman, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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Many vegans and vegetarians do not want meat, chicken or fish in their kitchens.Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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But at least one tribe holds out hope for the future of fish in the Klamath.Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Humanoid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanoid. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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