bots

American  

[bots] / bɒts /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a disease affecting various mammals, especially horses, caused by the attachment of the parasitic larvae of botflies to the stomach of the host.

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bots British  

/ bɒts /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) a digestive disease of horses and some other animals caused by the presence of botfly larvae in the stomach

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Etymology

Origin of bots

First recorded in 1780–90; plural of bot ²; -s ³

Example Sentences

Other startups have shared in Silicon Valley’s enthusiasm for OpenClaw and independent AI bots, but only up to a certain point.

From The Wall Street Journal

Amazon has suffered a spate of outages, some of them lasting hours, since it began entrusting more software coding responsibilities to AI bots while laying off human engineers, according to the Financial Times.

From Los Angeles Times

Today’s humanoid bots can barely load a dishwasher.

From The Wall Street Journal

Their cameras, sensors and bots do the work that 60,000 security guards once did.

From BBC

For litigators, it has created a new imperative: ferreting out citations that have been fabricated by AI bots in their own court filings — and their adversaries’.

From Los Angeles Times