robocop

English

Etymology

From robo- +‎ cop, after the film RoboCop (1987).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roʊboʊ.kɑp/

Noun

robocop (plural robocops)

1. (science fiction) A cyborg police officer.
   • 1990, Library and Information Technology Association (U.S.). National Conference, Michael Gorman, Convergence: Proceedings of the Second National Conference...

     As the World Wars were succeeded by the Korean War, which melded into the Vietnam War, science fiction pictured numerous dystopias controlled by means of ever-watchful computer and robocops.

   • 2010, Tyson E. Lewis, Richard Kahn, Education Out of Bounds, page 1:

     Opposite of natural monsters there are technological monsters such as terminators, cyborgs, and robocops—all of which undermine dichotomies between the artificial and the organic, the prosthetic and the natural.

   • 2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Robocops, touted by state media as a way of beefing up Shenzhen’s security apparatus, are nowhere to be seen.

Spanish

Noun

robocop m (plural robocops)

1. robocop