How to Use robotic in a Sentence

robotic

adjective
  • The final eight bots face off in a robotic fight to the death.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The solution: adding a robotic arm to move the items out of the way.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Costa sets a timer for the first of three rounds, and a robotic voice counts down the start.
    Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Ahead, find the best robotic pool cleaners that’ll do the hard work for you.
    Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 13 May 2023
  • The robotic Luna-25 probe crashed onto the surface of the moon over the weekend.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The probe used its robotic arm and drilling tools to take samples.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 June 2024
  • And yet of course, few athletes are so robotic as to have no fear.
    T. M. Luhrmann, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • And 2024 is shaping up to be a big year for robotic mowers.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Send any news, comments, robotic tees, and big rocks to talk@qz.com.
    Laura Bratton, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The upright, with the integral brake caliper is more like a robotic wasp nest.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The robot has a four-wheeled base with a six-joint robotic arm mounted on it.
    Rebecca Cairns; Video By Dan Tham, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The team sent commands up to the rover's robotic arm on Thursday and Friday.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The robotic ball’s engines could warm the water to create a steam boost.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Of course, Dyson isn't the first to get a robotic hand to do something impressive.
    Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
  • And cameras on the robotic arm can take close-up pictures.
    New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Nathan Never’s ray gun with a robotic hand in a display case.
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In the video, Hutchinson attempts to use a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee with a straw in it.
    Kelly Clancy, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The truth is that Nathaniel is worried about returning to school with a robotic leg.
    Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • The country has already flown robotic spacecraft to the moon and returned the first samples from the moon’s far side.
    Denise Chow, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But the study does give future robotic or crewed missions to Mars a good place to start looking.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2024
  • By the end of the video, the beings on the screen are fully robotic, until the last one explodes into a pile of debris.
    Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 12 May 2023
  • The nation’s last robotic soft landing on the moon took place in January 1968, with the touchdown of .
    Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In 2019, Wahlin was on a team that explored the area from a ship using a robotic ship but never went ashore.
    Seth Borenstein, ajc, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Vescovo had strapped two to his submersible, one on each of the vessel's robotic arms.
    Jeremy White, Wired, 7 Mar. 2022
  • This was the first robotic rover that had mobility and could move on its own.
    Meghan Willcoxon, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
  • Think of these robotic vacuums as your very own Rosey from The Jetsons.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Shields has just discussed some of these things so frequently in the past that it feels rote, if not robotic here.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Unwanted bits are removed with deft robotic arms (and saved for a fish stock, of course).
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 15 Aug. 2023
  • An experimental device has been designed to help such folks lift cumbersome objects, by adding a robotic hand to the back of their dominant hand.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 21 Feb. 2025
  • So the police chief, who is also her dad, decides to change things up and give her a partner, pairing Lou with her rigid, socially robotic younger brother Henry (Luke Cook), who is fresh out of the police academy.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025

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