English

Alternative forms

• roboticise
• roboticize
• robotise

Verb

robotize ‎(third-person singular simple present robotizes, present participle robotizing, simple past and past participle robotized)

1. (transitive) To give something (or someone) the characteristics of a robot.
   • 1987, Ira Shor, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, page 53,

     They have fought the robotizing of their characters to a kind of stand-off.

   • 1994, Barry Neil Kaufman, Son Rise: The Miracle Continues, page 61,

     But we did not want just to train Raun or robotize him or to use force or the threat of punishment as others had tried to do rather unsuccessfully with other youngsters like him.

   • 2007, Thomas d'Ansembourg, Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real, page 200,

     Nazi criminals interviewed about their motives have given the same sort of replies: “Just following orders.” Hearts and consciences can be deadened and robotized in the same way.

   • 2011, Daphne Carr, Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine, page 20,

     Their cut-ups, sputtering drum machines, and shreds of harsh noise are the ugly mirrors of pop music's technological wonderland, while their lyrics literalize the horror of humans being treated as dead machines in pop-Marxist language and production styles that robotize the voice.

2. (transitive) To automate, especially by making use of robots.
   • 2000, Lawrence Thelen, The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre, page 34,

     " […] And maybe one works, but in the long run what it does is it robotizes the process.”

   • 2006, Massimiliano Caramia, Paolo Dell'Olmo, Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems: Optimization Algorithms for Production Planning, page 105,

     In fact, its solution would determine the number of robots needed to tend machines in a manufacturing system and hence the investment required to robotize tending activities.

   • 2010, Francisco Rovira Más, Qin Zhang, Alan C. Hansen, Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles, page 10,

     All of these figures indicate that the off-road vehicles that will be robotized for deployment in agricultural fields will not have any trouble powering their sensors, […] .