robot servant
Synthetic household helper
A robot servant is a machine designed to perform domestic or personal tasks for humans—cleaning, fetching, attending to needs.
The term evokes science fiction visions of humanoid automatons serving households: Every family will have a robot servant by 2050.
In practice, current robot servants are more modest: vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, simple assistants.
The concept raises questions about labor, dependency, and the ethics of creating beings—however artificial—whose purpose is servitude.
- androidMachine resembling a person
- automatonSelf-moving mechanical device
- droidRobot, in shorthand
- obedientFollowing commands willingly
- mechanicalOperated by machinery
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robot servantmaster
Authority or controller
owner · employer · lord of the manor · lady of the house · patriarch
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