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robotics

noun
/ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪks/UK/ɹoʊˈbɑ.tɪks/CA/ɹəʉˈbɔt.ɪks/

Etymology

Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 from robot + -ics by comparison to "physics ... hydraulics, celestial mechanics, and so on" in his short story Liar!.

  1. borrowed from robot
  2. suffixed as robotics — “robot + -ics”

Definitions

  1. The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application

    • There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for robotics. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA