robotically adv. 2

by means of a robot or robotics

Robotics

  • 1953 S. Dewey Slide-Rule Robots in Amazing Stories Jan. 122/2 page image Sam Dewey bibliography

    The actual flying of the aircraft will be done either robotically through electronic brains, or from the ground through radio and radar.

  • 1964 R. F. Young Arena of Decisions in Amazing Stories Mar. 8/2 page image Robert F. Young bibliography

    The bright-blue blooms that had made the planet famous throughout the galaxy…were robotically cultivated.

  • 1997 T. Cool Universal Emulators in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 6 page image Tom Cool bibliography

    Sephora was a robotically controlled ship. No one was aboard except Cecilia and Coupon.

  • 2013 S. Williams in Asimov’s Science Fiction Sept. 3/2 page image

    NASA’s proposed budget for 2014 ‘includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid’.


Research requirements

antedating 1953

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