Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name)
5. equipment
6. [equipment by general type]
7. machines (general equipment)

Narrower term/s

• androids
• cyborgs

Anotations

Scope note:

Machines capable of automatically carrying out a complex series of movements, especially one that is programmable. In historical usage, as depicted in science fiction, inspired by the mass-produced workers in a play by Karel Čapek, robots were intelligent artificial beings typically made of metal and resembling in some way a human or other animal.