humanlike

adjective

Definition of humanlike
as in humanoid

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Recent Examples of humanlike The story feels eerily prescient as AI continues to infiltrate everyday life, with some humans beginning to form emotional bonds with the humanlike programs in their life. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 18 June 2026 LLMs are so seemingly humanlike, people envision computers replacing all customer service agents, summarizing or answering questions about a collection of thousands of documents, taking on the wholesale role of a data scientist or even making a company’s executive decisions. — Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Film, vibration, sound and light converge around a faceless, humanlike figure moving through shifting states of existence. — Melinda Sheckells, HollywoodReporter, 14 Feb. 2026 Through teleoperation, the robot demonstrates precise, humanlike hand control in a variety of manipulation tasks. — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2026 The company claims Moya can replicate human micro-expressions, a feature that places it among the most humanlike robots currently under development. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026 Still, more information about the lower body is needed to learn exactly where the species fits into the evolution of humanlike posture and gait. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026 To some, Aschenbrenner is a rare genius who saw the moment—the coming of humanlike artificial general intelligence, China’s accelerating AI race, and the vast fortunes awaiting those who move first—more clearly than anyone else. — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
  1. humanoid
  2. human
  3. hominid
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  • According to Hon Weng Chong, Cortical Labs founder and CEO, some potential applications include drug discovery, humanoid robotics, cybersecurity and fraud detection.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The company RoboStore had previously become the main North American distributor for humanoid robots and quadruped robots from Unitree Robotics, a Chinese robotics company that produces some of the most affordable and popular humanoid robot models.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of humanoid
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  • Things could be better, which goes without saying in the aftermath of a flu pandemic that has wiped out most of the planet’s human population, but the four principals here could also be dead, so there’s that.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • The service got its name from the original Mechanical Turk, an 18th century chess-playing robot that was actually controlled by a human chess master.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of human
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  • Over ten million years ago, long before the human species existed, our hominid ancestors adapted to metabolize alcohol.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The team used laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS), a technique that uses direct micro-scale sampling to provide high-precision elemental and isotope analyses of solid materials, to scan Neanderthal molars and other hominid fossils.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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