roboticist

[ roh-bot-uh-sist ]

noun

1. a specialist in robots or robotics ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of roboticist¹

1940; robotic ( def ) + -ist; coined by Isaac Asimov

Example Sentences

In initial tests with people with dementia living in care homes, “we found that a simpler dialogue than we expected would be more engaging for more of them,” says Hidenobu Sumioka, a roboticist at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto.

From BBC

A roboticist being included among his artistic collaborators.

From New York Times

That included creating a “think tank” of younger artists from many walks of musical and tech life: AI entrepreneur and roboticist Carol Reiley, composer Nico Muhly, avant-garde flutist Claire Chase, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding, film composer Nicholas Britell, soprano Julia Bullock, composer and pop guitarist Bryce Dessner and uncategorizable Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto.

From Los Angeles Times

Famed roboticist Rodney Brooks was also skeptical about embodied AI advances this week.

From Salon

"We are seeing the impact of new types of marine robots for midwater and deep-sea exploration," said roboticist Robert Wood, the Harry Lewis and Marlyn McGrath Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

From Science Daily