robotic
adjective
ro·bot·ic
rō-ˈbä-tik 
rə-
1
: of or relating to mechanical robots
2
: having the characteristics of a robot
performs with robotic consistency
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Examples of robotic in a Sentence
the dishwasher is one of the greatest robotic devices ever invented
with a single robotic motion, she reached for a cigarette and a lighter the instant she sat down
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To do that, someone would likely need to create a type of digital skin that would attach to a robotic limb and rapidly collect and interpret data about the world.
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Asked what would happen to Gateway if SLS is cancelled, Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA's director of human and robotic exploration, responded that the cancellation would only impact ESA if no other launcher were able to transport Orion and the ESM to lunar orbit.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
In other cases, domain-name hustlers have purchased the URLs of media properties that have fallen on hard times and resurrected them as AI content mills, sometimes replacing their previously sound journalism with robotic pablum.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
That said, Intuitive Machines could launch its third robotic lunar mission, called IM-3, as soon as October.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 16 Jan. 2025
Asked what would happen to Gateway if SLS is cancelled, Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA's director of human and robotic exploration, responded that the cancellation would only impact ESA if no other launcher were able to transport Orion and the ESM to lunar orbit.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 16 Jan. 2025
In other cases, domain-name hustlers have purchased the URLs of media properties that have fallen on hard times and resurrected them as AI content mills, sometimes replacing their previously sound journalism with robotic pablum.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
That said, Intuitive Machines could launch its third robotic lunar mission, called IM-3, as soon as October.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Robotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robotic. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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