roboteer

noun — 2 senses

roboteer

noun

Etymology 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:

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