How to Use robotic in a Sentence

robotic

adjective
  • The final eight bots face off in a robotic fight to the death.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The solution: adding a robotic arm to move the items out of the way.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 12 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The process begins with the rover's 7-foot-long robotic arm.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 July 2021
  • Of the 18 robotic probes sent to the planet’s surface in the past 50 years, eight have crashed.
    — Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020
  • These are on the end of the rover's 7-foot-long (2-meter-long) robotic arm.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The probe used its robotic arm and drilling tools to take samples.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 4 June 2024
  • The rover’s robotic arm will drill the surface and collect samples the size of a piece of chalk.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The leap from there to full-fledged robotic surgeons is not so far-fetched.
    — Ingrid Schmidt, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2025
  • And yet of course, few athletes are so robotic as to have no fear.
    — T. M. Luhrmann, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • Sinner, who can come across as robotic and cool, seems to need that, too.
    — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 29 June 2025
  • And 2024 is shaping up to be a big year for robotic mowers.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Send any news, comments, robotic tees, and big rocks to talk@qz.com.
    — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The upright, with the integral brake caliper is more like a robotic wasp nest.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The robot has a four-wheeled base with a six-joint robotic arm mounted on it.
    — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Dan Tham, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The exact object that punched a hole in the robotic arm is unknown.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021
  • The team sent commands up to the rover's robotic arm on Thursday and Friday.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The robotic ball’s engines could warm the water to create a steam boost.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 July 2022
  • Of course, Dyson isn't the first to get a robotic hand to do something impressive.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
  • And cameras on the robotic arm can take close-up pictures.
    — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Just look at the roster of robotic surgeons out there these days.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Mission engineers have used the robotic arm to push the probe down and scrape dirt on top.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Nathan Never’s ray gun with a robotic hand in a display case.
    — Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • And in the midst of it all, Alex Cora revealed his worst robotic nightmare.
    — Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
  • In the video, Hutchinson attempts to use a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee with a straw in it.
    — Kelly Clancy, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The truth is that Nathaniel is worried about returning to school with a robotic leg.
    — Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2024
  • An unchanging body map could be a huge boost for the emerging field of brain-computer interfaces, which can allow a paralyzed person to speak or move a robotic arm.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 27 Aug. 2025
  • It's been incorporated into a cylindrical robotic arm segment called the ProTac link, although it could also be used in other body parts.
    — New Atlas, 26 Aug. 2025

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