Definitions

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  • noun a mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy

Etymologies

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Blend of mobile and robot

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Examples

  • Big shouts to Julian, Dave P and JDH. -- love, the mobot

    Music (For Robots): November 2006 Archives 2006

  • Big shouts to Julian, Dave P and JDH. -- love, the mobot

    Philly: Making Time (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • Among the 79 acres are a 14-acre Japanese strolling garden, one of the world's largest collections of rare orchids, and a tropical rainforest within a geodesic dome conservatory -- where plants include the rare double coconut, which has the largest seed of any plant in the world.mobot. org Dallas Arboretum Dallas Arboretum, Dallas Summer blooms:

    Back to the Garden 2008

  • Tomorrow I hope to get a chance to write a program for our secondary mobot.

    robots.net 2009

  • At Chez Day, delicate orchids last one, maybe two weeks - three is certainly unheard of - but at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400 or www. mobot.org), some of these finicky flowers have been around since the early nineteenth century!

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • The free Whitaker Music Festival concert series runs June 3-Aug. 5, 7: 30 p.m. Details at www. mobot.org / default. asp.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • The free Whitaker Music Festival concert series runs June 3-Aug. 5, 7: 30 p.m. Details at www. mobot.org / default. asp.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • Tomorrow I hope to get a chance to write a program for our secondary mobot.

    robots.net 2009

  • At Chez Day, delicate orchids last one, maybe two weeks - three is certainly unheard of - but at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400 or www. mobot.org), some of these finicky flowers have been around since the early nineteenth century!

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

  • At Chez Day, delicate orchids last one, maybe two weeks - three is certainly unheard of - but at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400 or www. mobot.org), some of these finicky flowers have been around since the early nineteenth century!

    Riverfront Times | Complete Issue 2009

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  • It's the "or as a toy" part that scares me.

    April 19, 2011

  • *shudders*

    April 19, 2011

  • "Those apprehensive of the change, or not prepared for it, are ready to take a turn onto Prozac Avenue. Synthetic maintenance of psychic balance is as justified as voyages in space or the mobotic performance of heart or brain surgery." Mihai Nadin, The Civilization of Illiteracy. 1997., p. VIII.

    Link.

    April 19, 2011

  • So I still have to trim my own moustache?

    January 30, 2024