ROBOTIC

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

Example:

machinelike efficiency

Synonyms:

automatic; automatonlike; machinelike; robotic; robotlike

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to mechanical robots

Example:

among our robotic devices is a vacuum cleaner

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

robot (a mechanism that can move automatically)

Credits

Context examples:

To better understand the formation and evolution of polynyas, the scientists collected data from satellite images of sea ice cover, robotic drifters, and seals outfitted with sensors.

(Data from robotic drifters explain mysterious holes in Antarctic sea ice, National Science Foundation)

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the robotic laboratory’s drill.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

Powerful solar eruptions could electrically charge areas of the Martian moon Phobos to hundreds of volts, presenting a complex electrical environment that could possibly affect sensitive electronics carried by future robotic explorers, according to a new NASA study.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

They were discovered in late 2015 through a series of observations by the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST), a Belgian robotic telescope located at ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) La Silla Observatory in Chile.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, used its telephoto lens to produce the panorama; meanwhile, it relied on its medium-angle lens to produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)

Vodaphone Germany, Nokia, and Audi are working on a mobile network and robotic vehicles that are part of a private expedition to the moon, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary year of the first manned lunar landing.

(Moon to Get Its Own Mobile Network, VOA)

While the Martian environment is considered harsh for many organisms, that’s not necessarily the case for all of them—particularly microbes that might be hiding within the nooks and crannies of a robotic explorer.

(NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites, NASA)

NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s all on the agency's human Path to Mars.

(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)

An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky Thursday evening to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that scientists anticipate will reveal answers to some of the basic questions about the solar system.