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roboticist

roboticist

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A person who designs, builds, or studies robots
  • noun
  • /roʊˈbɒtɪsɪst/
  • Specialized
: robotista
  • A roboticist designs new robots to help with tasks like assembling products in factories.
  • roboticist at Carnegie Mellon
  • roboticist at University
  • roboticist at Carnegie

She's one of the most brilliant and fun roboticists in the world to talk with.

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Examples

  • As an AI scientist and roboticist, I can honestly say that this would be a bad thing.

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  • She's one of the most brilliant and fun roboticists in the world to talk with.

  • From the roboticists' perspective, the technology is an improvement over other throwing robots.

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  • Udacity was founded by three roboticists who believed much of the educational value of their university classes could be offered online for a very low cost.

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  • The field is growing; roboticists around the world are inventing a whole family of tiny devices for various tasks. See sidebar, "Minibots for Medical Missions."

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  • I asked roboticist and blogger Travis Deyle, who was a member of the Healthcare Robotics Lab at GA Tech while working on his PhD.

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  • The roboticist demonstrated how the latest robots use artificial intelligence to learn from their environment.

  • Many universities are now offering degrees that focus on becoming a skilled roboticist in the growing technology field.

Surface Forms

roboticist singular
roboticists plural

Morphology

roboticist = robotic (transparent) = robot + ic + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' is added to the recognizable adjective 'robotic', yielding 'person who works with or studies robots', a standard and directly inferable formation.

Etymology

Roboticist comes from robot, a word taken from Czech robota, which meant 'forced work' or 'drudgery'. The ending -ist means 'a person who does or studies something', as in artist or scientist, so a roboticist is a person who designs, builds, or studies robots.