robocolleague

English

Etymology

From robo- +‎ colleague.

Noun

robocolleague (plural robocolleagues)

1. Robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.
   • [2013 March 2, “Robocolleague”, in The Economist, volume 406, number 8825, page 74:

     (title:) Robocolleague: Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers]

   • 2019 January-June, Ajay Kr Singh, “Developments in artificial intelligence: a global perspective”, in Delhi Business Review, volume 20, number 1, page 11:

     With AI making an entrance in the cubicles at the workplace, some office workers are warming up to their robo-colleagues by giving them female names: back-end staff for ANZ bank in Bangalore call their robo-colleague Lakshmi, while Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan addresses them as robomi-chan, or "pretty little robot".

   • 2019 May 8, Mark Blunden, “Artificial intelligence will mean more jobs for humans, not fewer”, in Evening Standard, page 16:

     The nine-to-five routine could certainly be sweetened by a robocolleague to sweat your boring stuff. But will they get the teas in?

   • 2023 March 22, Zachary Comeau, quoting Frances Karamouzis of Gartner Data & Analytics, “IT Leaders Should Prepare for Generative AI in the Enterprise”, in My Tech Decisions‎^[1]:

     That is leading Gartner to predict that by 2026, 100 million workers will have what the firm calls a “robo-colleague,” a synthetic virtual assistant designed to help make users more productive and efficient.