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
  • And 2024 is shaping up to be a big year for robotic mowers.
    Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The upright, with the integral brake caliper is more like a robotic wasp nest.
    Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Nathan Never’s ray gun with a robotic hand in a display case.
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 first steps of Artemis will be taken by robotic landers carrying small rovers, like Chandrayaan-3.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 14 July 2023
  • Why did neither of your recent startups go further down the robotic path?
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Last month, India landed a robotic spacecraft near the moon's south pole, a coveted area that holds water in the form of ice.
    Julia Mio Inuma, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But before then, NASA is hoping to make several robotic landings to help pave the way.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The 27-year-old actor stepped out on the sandy carpet in a robotic suit of armor featuring a mix of metallic and see-through panels.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The seminar will review a series of robotic systems built at the Johnson Space Center over the last 20 years.
    IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Even then, there would be moments when his speakers sounded robotic or AI-like.
    Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 3 May 2023
  • Related The first photo shows Bailey filming a scene with Flounder in front of blue screens and robotic arms.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 26 May 2023
  • When thinking about your home and the yearly upkeep, now is a good time to save on maintenance items like this robotic pool cleaner.
    Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Both models can be outfitted with a wide range of equipment, from cameras and sonars to robotic arms and imaging tools.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The pressure that deep in the ocean is several tons per square inch, so the crew had to use a tiny robotic camera fitted with a 35mm lens to shoot inside and around the wreckage over the course of 12 dives.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Over the years, these systems have allowed paralyzed people to play video games, move robotic arms, and write emails using just their thoughts.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The scene showed the killer doll perform a no-hands aerial cartwheel, lean against a wall with a backward leg kick and return to robotic movement in a matter of seconds.
    Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023

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