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Droid 类人机器人

Droid, or a robot in human-like form, is a shortened form of android which was used as early as the 1700s. Droid was first published in the 1950s in magazines like If that printed sci-fi short stories. The 1977 film franchise Star Wars brought droid into mainstream usage.

Droid是android的简称，意为类人机器人。Android一词早在18世纪就有，droid则是1950年代才在《If》等刊登科幻小说的杂志上出现。1977年的《星球大战》电影系列使类人机器人这个词开始被大量使用。