robotics.

The field concerned with designing, building, controlling, and using robots.

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Words that belong together

• industrial robotics
• robotics laboratory

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The robotics laboratory tested machines for hazardous inspections.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, technology. Commonness: moderately common.