robotic

Definition

Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

Etymology

From robot + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story Liar!.

Example Sentences

• "You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy."
• "In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch."
• "President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone."

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