Puppet that embodies a human intellect (as in android). (Walser, 1991).

DROID is a software tool to perform automated batch identification of file formats. It is designed to meet the fundamental requirement of any digital repository to be able to identify the precise format of all stored digital objects, and to link that identification to a central registry of technical information about that format and its dependencies.

DROID is an automatic file format identification tool. It is the first in a planned series of tools developed by The National Archives under the umbrella of its PRONOM technical registry service.

a robot , particularly the intelligent robots in the fictional Star Wars universe

a living creature

an optimal way for scientists to conduct their work from a small distance