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🤖 Like a machine 🧊 Unfeeling or automatic
robotic

robotic

64 4.6
Made like a machine that works by itself
  • adjective
  • /roʊˈbɑːtɪk/
: robótico
  • The factory uses robotic arms to assemble the products efficiently.
  • a robotic arm
  • a robotic system
  • a robotic hand

So is the idea to build a robotic retina.

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Examples

  • Today he walks with a pair of high-tech robotic legs called C-Legs.

    Academic text (2011)

  • We specialize in robotic limbs for wounded soldiers.

    Upgrade (2018)

  • And then we're often building these robotic products.

  • This means us getting into soft robotic technology.

  • Despite weird robotic sounds, this is a great little machine.

  • Sir, we're talking about the most advanced robotic system ever seen.

    Bumblebee (2018)

  • Now this man is using a robotic mechanism to pick up the engine.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • And now you have all these different robotic machines that can help make the job safer.

    Lex Fridman

  • And if we Fast forward to today, there are now robotic explorers on the planet Mars.

  • The task of sampling ice on the Moon falls to a robotic rover named Cocytus.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

automated
vsrobotic
102 4.0

Machines or computers run a system instead of people

is about appearing or acting like a machine rather than only being machine run
mechanical
vsrobotic
36 3.9

Moving or acting like a machine without feeling

focuses on resemblance to automated or artificial operation rather than general machines
mechanized
vsrobotic
  • Specialized
14 4.2

Machines do the work instead of people, for example in factories or farms

emphasizes looking or acting mechanically like an automated device rather than mere equipment
machinelike
vsrobotic
1 6.7

Acting in a very exact, automatic way without showing feeling

includes that sense but also covers being like automated equipment generally
robotlike
vsrobotic
1 6.8

Acting like a machine without feeling or choice

is broader meaning likeness to machines or to automated operation
automatonlike
vsrobotic
  • Offensive
9.3

Showing no feeling and acting like a machine

is wider describing likeness to machines rather than only unthinking behavior

Antonyms

natural
∞ 1.0

Not made or changed by people, coming from nature like sunlight

Compounds

robotic telesurgery
  • Specialized
7.2

Surgery using robotic tools that a surgeon controls from far away

How Robotic

automated
102 4.0
robotic
64 4.6
machinelike
1 6.7
mechanical
36 3.9

Surface Forms

robotic positive

Morphology

robotic = robot (transparent) = robot + ic

The adjective is a straightforward derivation from the noun 'robot' with the productive suffix '-ic', indicating 'relating to or characteristic of robots'.

Etymology

Robotic comes from the Czech word robota, meaning 'forced work', which gave us the English word robot for a machine that does work. So robotic means 'like a robot' — mechanical or automatic, often used for machines or tools.