robotic

comparative more robotic · superlative most robotic

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

   You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.

   1941 May, Isaac Asimov, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3, page 50

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   In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.

   2000 August 20, Caryn James, “The Nation; When a Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Oct 2014

   President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.

   2025 June 7, Paul Rosenzweig, “The Biden Investigation Is a Path to Even Greater Lawlessness”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2025