Bot may refer to:

Sciences

Computing and technology

Chatbot A chatbot or chatterbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would behav ...

, a computer program that converses in natural language *

Internet bot An Internet bot, web robot, robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet, usually with the intent to imitate human activity on the Internet, such as messaging, on a large scale. An Internet b ...

, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet **a

Spambot A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. Spambots usually create accounts and send spam messages with them. Web hosts and website operators have responded by banning spammers, leading to an ongoing struggle betw ...

, an internet bot designed to assist in the sending of spam *

Internet Relay Chat bot 409px, An IRC bot performing a simple task.An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in t ...

, a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client *

Robot A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may ...

, or "bot", a mechanical device that can perform physical tasks *

Social bot A social bot, or also described as a social AI or social algorithm, is a software agent that communicates autonomously on social media. The messages (e.g. tweets) it distributes can be simple and operate in groups and various configurations wit ...

, a type of chatbot that is employed in social media networks to automatically generate messages **

Twitter bot A Twitter bot is a type of software bot that controls a Twitter account via the Twitter API. The social bot software may autonomously perform actions such as tweeting, re-tweeting, liking, following, unfollowing, or direct messaging other account ...

, a program used to produce automated posts on the Twitter microblogging service * Trading bot, a program in an

Automated trading system An automated trading system (ATS), a subset of algorithmic trading, uses a computer program to create buy and sell orders and automatically submits the orders to a market center or exchange. The computer program will automatically generate orders ba ...

that is linked to an exchange or broker that automates trading using algorithms, there are trading bot providers such as HaasOnline, Cryptohopper, and

MetaTrader 4 MetaTrader 4, also known as MT4, is an electronic trading platform widely used by online retail foreign exchange speculative traders. It was developed by MetaQuotes Software and released in 2005. The software is licensed to foreign exchange brok ...

Video game bot In video games, a bot is a type of artificial intelligence (AI)–based expert system software that plays a video game in the place of a human. Bots are used in a variety of video game genres for a variety of tasks: a bot written for a first-per ...

, a computer-controlled player or opponent *

Wikipedia bot Wikipedia bots are Internet bots (computer programs) that perform simple, repetitive tasks in Wikipedia. One prominent example of an internet bot used in Wikipedia is Lsjbot, which generated millions of short articles across various language edit ...

, an internet bot which performs tasks in Wikipedia *

Zombie (computer science) In computing, a zombie is a computer connected to the Internet that has been computer security, compromised by a Hacker (computer security), hacker via a computer virus, computer worm, or Trojan horse (computing), trojan horse program and can b ...

, a zombie computer is part of a botnet

Biology and medicine

* BOT, base of

tongue The tongue is a muscular organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surface (dorsum) is covered by taste ...

, in medicine * Bot, the lesion caused by a botfly larva *Borderline ovarian tumor, a tumor of the ovaries

Places

* Bni Ounjel Tafraout, a commune in Taounate Province, Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate, Morocco * Bot, Tarragona, a town in Spain * Bot River, South Africa * Botswana, IOC and FIFA trigram BOT * British Overseas Territories, territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom * Bucharest Old Town

People

* Ajaw B'ot, 8th century Maya king of the city of Seibal * Ben Bot, Dutch politician * G. W. Bot, Australian printmaker, sculptor, painter and graphic artist * Jeanne Bot, French supercentenarian * Theo Bot, Dutch politician

Brands and enterprises

* Bank of Taiwan, a bank headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan * Bank of Tanzania, the central bank of the United Republic of Tanzania * Bank of Thailand, the central bank of Thailand * Blue Orange Theatre, an independent theatre in Birmingham, England * Bolt On Technology, an American software development company * The Bank of Tokyo, a defunct Japanese bank now part of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ * Bot, a line of budget desktop PCs manufactured by Alienware

Business

* Balance of trade, difference between the monetary value of exports and imports * Build–operate–transfer, a form of project financing

Sports

* Bobby Orr Trophy, the championship trophy of the Eastern Conference of the Ontario Hockey League * Brava Opening Tournament, a football tournament in Brava, Cape Verde

Transportation

* Air Botswana (ICAO: BOT) * Bosset Airport (IATA: BOT), in Bosset, Papua New Guinea * Bryn Oer Tramway, a narrow gauge railway built in South Wales in 1814

Other uses

*"B.O.T.", a 1986 episode of ''List of The Transformers episodes#Season 2 (1985–86), The Transformers'' * Bot caste, a Hindu caste of Nepali origin found in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh * Bot people, or Boto people, a community in Jammu and Kashmir * ''Bot'', short for ''ubosot'', the ordination hall of a Buddhist temple in Thailand * Barn Owl Trust, a charity in Waterleat, Ashburton, Devon, England * Bon Om Touk, the Cambodian Water Festival