極客必知：這些炫酷科幻詞是怎么來的

Droid 類人機器人

Droid, or a robot in human-like form, is a shortened form of android which was used as early as the 1700s. Droid was first published in the 1950s in magazines like If that printed sci-fi short stories. The 1977 film franchise Star Wars brought droid into mainstream usage.

Droid是android的簡稱，意為類人機器人。Android一詞早在18世紀就有，droid則是1950年代才在《If》等刊登科幻小說的雜志上出現。1977年的《星球大戰》電影系列使類人機器人這個詞開始被大量使用。