robocat

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English

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Etymology

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From robo- +‎ cat.

Noun

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robocat (plural robocats)

  1. A robot resembling a cat.
    • 1996, Andrew Pessin, Sanford Goldberg, The Twin Earth Chronicles, page 109:
      Imagine that instead of robocats there are immobile spies with a mechanical hypnosis device. When we think we see cats chasing mice, howling on roof tops, we are hallucinating.
    • 2001, Carl Elliott, Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers, page 86:
      Thus, if I normally judge that something is a cat and therefore an animal on the basis of it being a warm, furry, purry creature that looks like a cat, then I will go seriously wrong in a world where robocats who are also warm, furry, and purry abound.
    • 2008, Sigrid Kelsey, Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication:
      Since then thousands of robodogs, robocats and other roboanimals have been sold not only in Japan but also in Europe and the USA.

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