How to Use humanoid in a Sentence

humanoid

1 of 2 adjective

• The movie is about humanoid aliens invading Earth.
• This was a big deal: the humanoid robot would be the first of its kind in orbit.
  — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2018
• In the first video, the humanoid Atlas robot goes for a swift jog through a yard and even leaps over a log.
  — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 11 May 2018
• The teasers feature a classic alien and a humanoid monster with sharp teeth.
  — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Aug. 2021
• Two of the final sketches were humanoid ones; these, for me, were the least involving.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 10 July 2018
• The frog, which was created in 2005, has a humanoid body, and has appeared in comic books.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2018
• He is described in lore as having a humanoid figure with a knife-like nose.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2019
• This is like saying that the cats in Cats look slightly more humanoid than my sister’s cat, Jill.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021
• The film will tell us that the Eternals are part of two humanoid races that were in conflict for millennia, the Deviants and the Eternals.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 May 2021
• All the men are kicked to the curb except for a vaguely humanoid robot donning a baseball cat.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• In a still from a DeepMind demo video, a researcher pushes a small humanoid robot to the ground.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• The design features what appears to be a humanoid face with pink and purple skin, bright red eyes, and a six-legged body, with neon hair and teeth.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• Also present in their dreams: a dark, humanoid creature with glowing red eyes.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• The sculpture shows the serpent god with humanoid facial features and long, tousled hair.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• On the wall of a cave in Indonesia, a humanoid figure with arms connected to a long, spindly object hovers over the head of a warty pig.
  — Babak Tafreshi, National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2019
• In the past three years, its portfolio has expanded to humanoid robots with blue eyes and skin that feels real — but not warm — to the touch.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2021
• The researchers used deep reinforcement learning, a type of AI, to train the humanoid robots to play a one-on-one soccer game.
  — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• The initial take on fishman karate — the humanoid beings’ combat style — fell into the latter, Scalise said.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• The oldest humanoid figures in European art weren't found on walls.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2019
• Tesla is also building a humanoid robot, a project that could be helped by, and be helpful to, xAI in future.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 12 July 2023
• But for now, last-mile delivery (whether utilizing humanoid mode or not) is more of a long term vision.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
• Standing above the corpse is a humanoid figure wearing a strange metal helmet.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
• To that end, IIT’s avatar system consisted of a small bipedal humanoid robot—the 100-centimeter-tall iCub.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
• The third centers on a series of humanoid cave monsters who, hungry for land-dwelling human flesh, begin preying on the spelunkers.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
• Atlas has come a long way since the company first debuted its ability to march through the woods like the humanoid answer to Big Foot.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2018
• In this installment, Sly is the voice of squad muscle King Shark, a giant humanoid predator with a taste for destruction.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2022
• For the elderly, there's also ElliQ, a vaguely humanoid robot that pairs with a touchscreen.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 May 2018
• Pettitt is also not convinced that the hunters are therianthropes—or even humanoid.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2019
• Other companies have also presented the idea of humanoid robots that mimic the size and movements of people.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• In January, Musk posted a video of Tesla’s Optimus in which the humanoid robot was shown folding laundry seemingly on its own.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Mar. 2024

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humanoid

2 of 2 noun

• SoftBank introduced the humanoid to the world in 2014 and started selling it the next year.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• About half of our team have worked on humanoids before, and half of our team have worked in some related field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2023
• Page points to a scene involving a fish that had swallowed a baby Tabaxi (a species of cat-like humanoids).
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Gita, says Schnapp, is not trying to overtly look like a robot, or a humanoid, or a pet, or your best friend.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
• The ghost in this machine is nothing short of the origin of consciousness, of the humanoid witnessing the birth of a soul, of emotions and feelings inside him.
  — Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Named Being the Digital Griot, the humanoid bends their arms in preparation to vogue.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• But one professor thinks the apelike humanoids could still live there, evolution be damned.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
• Take, for instance, Edward Scissorhands (1990), where a humanoid with scissors for hands proves to be more pure than petrifying.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• The first results were lackluster if not alarming: Her algorithm produced a pink-shaded humanoid shrouded by a black cloak.
  — Zachary Small, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• But the planet is already inhabited by the Na’vi, a giant species of blue humanoids who live in harmony with nature rather than trying to exploit and control it.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• Mario and Luigi may be a different type of humanoid altogether.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• How humanoid is the right amount of humanoid for a humanoid robot that will be leveraging your cognitive architecture approach and using human data as a model?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
• The humanoid — billed as the world’s first robot artist — has sparked debate about the boundaries of artificial intelligence since programmers and psychologists finished building it in 2019.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
• With the robot prototype — which frankly looks more like a boxy silver refrigerator than a humanoid — Chipotle joins the growing ranks of fast-food companies looking to robotic technology to trim costs.
  — Ellie Stevens, CNN, 13 July 2023
• But in reality, ancient remains indicate that hobbit-sized humanoids once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2023
• Rival robot-makers, like Figure AI, are taking a more purist approach on the idea that only true humanoids can effectively navigate workplaces, homes and a society built for humans.
  — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• Chacón, a former Marine pilot who becomes sympathetic to the Na'vi cause, dies in battle in the first film, sacrificing herself so the blue-skinned humanoids can repel the humans plundering the exomoon Pandora.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Boston Dynamics, now a subsidiary of carmaker Hyundai, experimented with building a humanoid that could handle boxes.
  — Matt O'Brien, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• This includes experimental research on jet turbines and codesign, which is necessary to implement aerial humanoid robotics on the real iCub.
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023
• The students of the Bauhaus, the influential German design academy founded in 1919, took their costume parties as seriously as their studies, dressing up as monstrous creatures and mechanical humanoids.
  — Coco Romack, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• The humanoid can be customised to perform tasks in various sectors such as hospitality, security, retail, healthcare, education, and banking.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 9 Sep. 2022
• As Charles, a peculiar talking robot and pretty much Brian’s only substantial invention that works, Hayward’s performance lands somewhere between mechanical (he short-circuits on occasion) and humanoid.
  — Tomris Laffly, Variety, 15 June 2022
• The humanoids must have humanlike proportions and sensor configurations akin to human perception—which means, among other things, no omnidirectional sensing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• There’s no question that Agility Robotics and the other companies developing commercial humanoids have impressive technology, a compelling narrative, and an enormous amount of potential.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2023
• SoftBank introduced the humanoid to the world in 2014 and started selling it the next year.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• About half of our team have worked on humanoids before, and half of our team have worked in some related field.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2023
• Page points to a scene involving a fish that had swallowed a baby Tabaxi (a species of cat-like humanoids).
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 Mar. 2023
• Gita, says Schnapp, is not trying to overtly look like a robot, or a humanoid, or a pet, or your best friend.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
• The ghost in this machine is nothing short of the origin of consciousness, of the humanoid witnessing the birth of a soul, of emotions and feelings inside him.
  — Neel Mukherjee, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
• Named Being the Digital Griot, the humanoid bends their arms in preparation to vogue.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024