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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
robotic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But his lack of experience and robotic speaking style made it difficult for him to keep pace with Dole.
▪ Carrying out the precision drilling in a delicate hip replacement operation is the world's first robotic surgeon.
▪ Possible applications are in robotic control systems and military target / friend-or-foe identification.
▪ The space agency plans to launch robotic missions to Mars every two years.
▪ The surgeons and robotic engineers hope to replace part of the surgeons activity with a robot.
▪ What a contrast to today's robotic, serious-faced professionals diligently pacing to the nearest foot the distances between ball and flag.
▪ Will there still remain a world for these robotic beings to inhabit?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
robotic

1941 (Asimov), from robot + -ic.

Wiktionary
robotic

a. Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

WordNet

Usage examples of "robotic".

At the center on Dorser, I learned that her robotic compound was so high that, were she to come to the attention of the legal community through such action as a divorce, she would immediately be declared nonhuman and devoid of rights.

Once a robotic toy companion, a crude electromotive toy from the first decade of the twenty-first century, Aineko was progressively upgraded and patched and periodically migrated to a new hardware platform -- until, by some time in the third or fourth decade, it acquired an agenda of its own.

And still the robotic controller pointed out that it was his task to report on the Jansky Singularity, not to enter it.

The dispersed jihadi squadrons and surveillance teams reported that the robotic marauders had begun to move out from their new staging point.

I want to revel in vast vistas of time and space, to have exotic sex with oviparous Martian princesses, to travel faster than light and read minds, to have robotic best friends and converse with intelligent dogs.

Mardell the floor director was there, headset in place, ready to take charge, and high atop the boom one technician readied the robotic camera for the big swoop-down shot.

Fortunately, a robotic observatory had been in orbit around Twinkler, and signs of the explosion had been detected early, in the form of a veritable avalanche of precursor neutrinos.

This robotic surgeon, like all others in the known universe, thought I was allergic to sedatives.

Navy came up with the term, an acronym for Submarine Naval Automated Robotic Combat system.

As each rammer is completed, we can start loading it with its full robotic crew.

My robotic aspirations have been repurposed toward a different world: the RFIDsphere.

Starscream changed, transforming himself into robotic form and landing in the middle of Las Vegas Boulevard, right in front of Prowl.

Robotic defenders targeted the falling atomics, exploding them in the air and dispersing clouds of radioactive shrapnel.

Cacti with spiny arms and flowers like dracaena rose up periodically, as did the huge robotic forms of power-line towers.

He had been on extravehicular activity oncea spacewalkand an incorrectly programmed robotic arm had moved unexpectedly, severed his tether, and tossed him spinning into space.