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• a  of or relating to mechanical robots
  among our robotic devices is a vacuum cleaner
• s  resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

• A robotic roach interacts with real roaches.
• Now Ian Kelly, a computer scientist at the California Institute of Technology, has developed a robotic slug catcher that not only identifies and eliminates slugs but could .
• Scientists have developed a robotic cockroach that can change the herding behavior of real insects and coax them into going where they normally wouldn't.

• automatic
• automatonlike
• machinelike
• robotlike

News & Articles

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• Robotic surgery is high-tech 'tour de force' -- but is it safe?
  The newlywed had been grappling with excruciatingly painful periods for as long as she could remember, when her doctor told her one way she could end the agony was a hysterectomy. Michelle Zarick, then 37, didn’t question it when the doctor wanted to use the latest high-tech option that medicine had to offer: a hysterectomy done with the help of a robot.“She mentioned that doing the robotic ...
  June 14, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Floating Robotic Spheres Will Compete Inside ISS
  Earth-bound high school students will compete to program robotic spheres to fly around inside the International Space Station. Continue reading ?
  June 13, 2013 - Discovery News
• Robotic surgeons of the future practice at Coca Cola Park
  It's a new kind of procedure that doctors say is dramatically changing surgeries in the Lehigh Valley.  It's called robotic surgery, and, Tuesday night, some local residents got a chance to try it! To tell us more, we welcomed Dr. Marty Martino, Medical Director of the Robotic Surgery Program at Lehigh Valley Health Network, one of his patients, Dana Flynn, and the man behind the science of it ...
  June 12, 2013 - WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey

Quotes

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• Kim Stanley Robinson in FOX News
  I'm quite confident that humans will go to Mars and I do think it's important,Robinson said Friday. "When people get there, they'll be able to do on the ground what maybe 100 robotic missions would have been able to do."
• Elizabeth Banks in Urbana Daily Citizen
  He's robotic and not quite in control of his form, his human form,said co-star Elizabeth Banks. "Eddie's performance, he has a lot of naivete about the world around him. He comes off as being extremely strange and odd, and that naivete...
• Dominic Gorie in Antara
  We've done awesome,Gorie pointed out. "Every spacewalk was a win, every robotic op (operation) was a win. We've got a couple more to go with the undocking and the landing, but we've got a great winning team."