robotics

Coined by Isaac Asimov robot +‎ -ics by comparison to "physics ... hydraulics, celestial mechanics, and so on" in his 1941 short story Liar!.

• enPR: rō-bŏt′iks
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbɑt.ɪks/, [ɹoʊˈbɑɾɪks]

robotics (uncountable)

1. The science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application
   • 1941 May, Asimov, Isaac, “Liar!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 3, page 53:

     There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?

• artificial intelligence
• three laws of robotics

• “robotics” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 165.
• robotics n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project

• corbitos