ROBOTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does robotic mean? 

• ROBOTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ROBOTIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to mechanical robots

2. resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

  Familiarity information: ROBOTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROBOTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to mechanical robots

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

among our robotic devices is a vacuum cleaner

Pertainym:

robot (a mechanism that can move automatically)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine

Synonyms:

automatic; automatonlike; machinelike; robotic; robotlike

Context example:

machinelike efficiency

Similar:

mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)

 Context examples 

NASA plans to launch the ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission) robotic spacecraft in 2019 and will make a final choice of the asteroid for the mission about a year before the spacecraft launches.

(NASA announces latest progress in hunt for asteroids, NASA)

LADEE was a robotic mission that orbited the Moon to gather detailed information about the structure and composition of the thin lunar atmosphere, and determine whether dust is lofted into the lunar sky.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

Researchers have developed soft robotic devices driven by neuromuscular tissue that triggers when stimulated by light — bringing scientists one step closer to autonomous biobots.

(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)

They also may make frozen water more accessible than previously thought to future robotic or human exploration missions.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency has made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet.

(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)

A proprietary, robotic radiosurgery system designed to deliver precise beams of high dose radiation to tumors with extreme accuracy.

(CyberKnife, NCI Thesaurus)

Mars has received its newest robotic resident.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Scientists using NASA's Curiosity Mars rover are eyeing a rock layer surrounding the base of a small butte, called Mount Remarkable, as a target for investigating with tools on the rover's robotic arm.

(NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte, NASA)

The robotic spacecraft briefly turned its gaze away from the ringed beauty of Saturn on April 11, 2014, to observe the distant planet, which is the seventh planet from the sun.

(Cassini spies the ice-giant planet Uranus, NASA)

Then, in a robotic first, the spacecraft will reach out its mechanical arm and take a sample from the asteroid.

(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)