robotics

robotics
robotics (n.) 1941, from ROBOT (Cf. robot) + -ICS (Cf. -ics). Coined in a science fiction context by Russian-born U.S. author Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), who proposed the "Three Laws of Robotics" in 1968.

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