robotics
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Isaac Asimov robot + -ics by comparison to "physics ... hydraulics, celestial mechanics, and so on" [1] in his 1941 short story Liar!.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
robotics (uncountable)
- The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application
- 1941 May, Asimov, Isaac, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3, page 53:
- There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?
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Translations[edit]
The science and technology of robots
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References[edit]
- “robotics” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 165.
- robotics n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project