From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishroboticsro‧bo‧tics /rəʊˈbɒtɪks $ ˈroʊbɑː-/ noun [uncountable] Tthe study of how robots are made and usedGRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?Robotics is followed by a singular verb: Robotics is a rapidly growing field.
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robotics• Fujitsu-Fanuc, a robotics firm within the group, is the world's top maker of numerical control equipment.• But automation and robotics have changed all that.• One zone will contain the core industries, electronics, robotics, biotechnology and so on.• Neural networks used for robotics and control applications have been around for a relatively long time.• Primary school children wouldn't normally be given lessons in robotics until they were several years older.• There are four main areas of work, automated reasoning, intelligent robotics, knowledge based systems and speech and language processing.• This is reflected in the enormous growth of micro usage in these areas and especially in the field of robotics.• But don't forget to program it with Asimov's laws of robotics, please! 