roboteer
nounEtymology From robot + -eer.
1
One who operates a robot.
- Covered with American Cyanamid decals, this contrivance is radio-controlled by a roboteer behind a rattan screen at one end of Cyanamid's make-believe lounge […]1984, Orville Schell, Modern Meat, page 7:
2
One who takes an interest in robotics.
- There are roboteers who think it would be an advance to replace our brain tissue with computer circuits.1994, David Clarke Burks, Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology, page 52: