droid - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.

* {{quote-magazine

| year = 1952 | date = July | first = Mari | last = Wolf | authorlink = | title = Robots of the World! Arise! | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31611 | magazine = | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | page = 76 | passage = It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids , all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them. }}

* 1976 , , Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker , New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:

“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.

* 1995 , J. D. Robb, Glory in Death , page 39:

The bartender was a droid , as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.