robotics
Definitions
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- noun (noun) The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application.
Examples
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We might see venture capital increasingly begin to flow to start-up companies that are focused on labor-saving technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence.
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One Osaka-based company, Robot Force, has a passion for creating simpler robot designs and kits that encourage and motivate people just getting started in robotics.
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It's like this, every time they make a breakthrough in robotics, we make the same jokes. The robots are going to wake up and use these powers to enslave the human race. Stop. Why not just give it a ray-gun and show it all four 'Terminator' movies? Just do it.
Note
The term 'robotics' was coined by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his 1941 short story 'Liar!' The word 'robot' was coined by Czech writer Karel Capek in his play 'R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots),' and comes from the Czech 'robota,' drudgery.
