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robocolleague

robocolleague noun: robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.

Noun

robocolleague (plural robocolleagues)

  1. Robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.
    • (title:) Robocolleague: Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers[2013 March 2, “Robocolleague”, in The Economist, volume 406, number 8825, page 74
    • With AI making an entrance in the cubicles at the workplace, some office workers are warming up to their robo-colleagues by giving them female names: back-end staff for ANZ bank in Bangalore call their robo-colleague Lakshmi, while Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan addresses them as...2019 January-June, Ajay Kr Singh, “Developments in artificial intelligence: a global perspective”, in Delhi Business Review, volume 20, number 1, page 11

Forms of robocolleague

pluralrobocolleagues

Origin of robocolleague

From robo- + colleague.

Questions about robocolleague

What does robocolleague mean?
Robocolleague means robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.
What part of speech is robocolleague?
Robocolleague is a noun.
What is the plural of robocolleague?
The plural of robocolleague is robocolleagues.

Words near robocolleague in the dictionary

  1. robocat
  2. robocats
  3. robochef
  4. robochefs
  5. robocide
  6. robocolleague
  7. robocolleagues
  8. robocop
  9. robocops
  10. robocourier
  11. robocracy

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