"roboid" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1974, Michael Moorcock, The shores of death",
          "text": "A roboid waiter, human-like but running on hidden casters, paused with a tray of drinks.",
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          "ref": "1998, Nigel Kerner, Song of the Greys",
          "text": "The terrifying thing about all of this is that we now have a distinct possibility that a hive of aliens with their attendant purely biomechanical roboids the Greys, from another part of our universe, are intercepting and intervening in the affairs of our species.",
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          "text": "It is their challenge, with the help of Tania, a roboid, to adapt the siblings to their new environment.",
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        "(science fiction) A robotic creature."
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