How to Use robotic in a Sentence

robotic

adjective
  • 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 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 robotic ball’s engines could warm the water to create a steam boost.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Nathan Never’s ray gun with a robotic hand in a display case.
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The truth is that Nathaniel is worried about returning to school with a robotic leg.
    Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 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
  • 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
  • Think of these robotic vacuums as your very own Rosey from The Jetsons.
    Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Russia is planning to launch Luna 25 in August, the latest in a long line of robotic missions to the moon.
    Hari Kumar, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • There's that creature on the train, and that was two people inside this giant robotic suit.
    Devan Coggan, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The home was constructed by using 46-foot-wide robotic printers that pipe out the shape of the walls with a concrete mix called Lavacrete.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • With the robotic dinosaur at the ready, the team prepared to probe the question: Just how, exactly, did early birds get their wings?
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • These include a bio-inspired robotic hand, a six-legged robot with a grabber, and a pump modeled on the heart.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • In 1984, an Apple computer became one of the first that could read a text file in a tinny robotic voice of its own.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The enclosure that held the robotic arm and metal samples was on a Nanoracks circuit.
    Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
  • That includes a table-top robotic arm with a large, iPad-like display.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • The first steps of Artemis will be taken by robotic landers carrying small rovers, like Chandrayaan-3.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • Generic garbage with weird phrases and a robotic structure.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The team developed a set of robotic duck feet that replicated the natural swimming motion of a mallard on the water.
    Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024

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