Bot (disambiguation)

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same or a similar title.

For bot guidelines on Citizendium, see Citizendium_Pilot:Bots. Bot may refer to:

• Robot, a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks
• Internet bot, a type of computer program to do automated tasks
  • Computer game bot, a computer controlled player or opponent
  • Botnet, a network of "zombie" computers used to do automated tasks such as spamming or reversing spamming
  • Botsourcing, the assignment of tasks to an automated, or intelligent, programmed agent
• Chatterbot, a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with a human
• Botfly, a harmful insect
• Bot, Tarragona, a small municipality in the Terra Alta, Spain
• Alienware Bot, a brand of desktop computer
• Bote, a legal compensation, and the origin of the phrase to boot
• Bernard Bot, the current Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs

Trivia

• In Sweden, a song called "Boten Anna" became a hit in the middle of 2006. It is about an IRC bot.

See also

• BOT
• Bots (band)