robotic
Americanadjective
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in the manner of a robot; mechanical; lacking human intelligence or emotion.
He’s so constant and efficient that he looks robotic on the ice, and his scores for artistic performance suffer.
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performed by a robot without active guidance from a human operator.
Over the course of several robotic missions, NASA gathered information about the surface of Mars and its atmosphere.
Etymology
Origin of robotic
First recorded in 1925–30; robot ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The couple are now fundraising for advanced prosthetics, including potentially robotic hands, which they said could cost tens of thousands of pounds.
From BBC
Candidates can easily fall into the trap of sounding too scripted or robotic because without facial cues from a human interviewer, they have no idea how their answers are being received.
An Indian university has courted controversy at the AI summit in Delhi after an official claimed that a Chinese-made robotic dog was its own invention.
From BBC
He’d made his voice robotic, just like a computerized phone message.
From Literature
Department of War’s innovation unit announced it would award up to $100 million in prizes to tech providers able to translate commands into coordinated action across fleets of robotic systems.
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