ROBOTICS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The area of AI concerned with the practical use of robots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("robotics" is a kind of...):

AI; artificial intelligence (the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "robotics"):

animatronics (the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland))

telerobotics (the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance)

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