humanlike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humanlike
Adjective
  • During last week’s second-quarter earnings call, Musk highlighted Tesla’s future — not its gloomy present-day — by reaffirming ambitious plans for the company’s robotaxi service and mass production of its humanoid robot, Optimus, which was serving popcorn at Musk’s diner.
    Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 27 July 2025
  • Recent reports have also noted that Amazon is working to test humanoid robots as part of its delivery strategy; Lumotive chips can be used to upgrade the capabilities of humanoids, in addition to non-mobile robots, like the ones Amazon deploys in its fulfillment centers and warehouses.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • For finance teams, this could mean agentic AI automatically initiating vendor payments, adjusting forecasts or triggering alerts around policy changes without human bottlenecks.
    Karen Abramson, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Speaking with director Joe Johnston, Oka explained the two most difficult things to simulate digitally at the time were human skin and water.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • Researchers also identified two tiny fragments of hominid skull as belonging to H. erectus, an ancient human ancestor.
    Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
  • If the researchers can extend their findings to earlier spheroids found in Africa, from the Oldowan stone industry, then the balls could serve as some of the first evidence of hominid intelligence.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
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“Humanlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humanlike. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.

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