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robot jockey

robot jockey noun: a machine used to race camels.

Noun

robot jockey (plural robot jockeys)

  1. A machine used to race camels.
    • She was a rider, obviously; was she also a jockey? To break in the most promising horses for racing? No robot-jockey could actually race, by law; but no living person had the programmed patience of a training machine, and the horses did well with such assistance.1982, Piers Anthony, Double Exposure, volumes 1-3, Nelson Doubleday, page 112
    • Tohoku Electronic Industrial (Japan) has developed a robot jockey to help train horses.1988, Predicasts, inc, Predicasts Technology Update, volume 44, numbers 27-52, Predicasts, page 12

Examples of robot jockey in a sentence

  • The Swiss company K-Team developed the robot jockey Kamal, which has taken over the work of child jockeys ever since.2015 August 28, Lamber Royakkers, Rinie van Est, “Automation from Love to War”, in Just Ordinary Robots: Automation from Love to War...
  • SHE CAN GO AHEAD AND MAKE HER CAREER WHILE THE BOSS LOSES HIS SOUL PLAYING ROBOT JOCKEY--” “--AND WE LOSE OUR MINDS LOOKING FOR A RADIO SHACK AMONG THE BOATS.”2016 July 27, John Arcudi, Lobster Johnson: Metal Monsters of Midtown #3, number 3, Dark Horse Comics, page 12:
  • Then, after a team of Swiss engineers and zoologists built robot jockey prototypes, the camels refused to race because the new robot jockeys didn't resemble their previous human riders.2024 October 15, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts, The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation, Columbia...

Forms of robot jockey

pluralrobot jockeys

Questions about robot jockey

What does robot jockey mean?
Robot jockey means a machine used to race camels.
How do you use robot jockey in a sentence?
The Swiss company K-Team developed the robot jockey Kamal, which has taken over the work of child jockeys ever since.
What part of speech is robot jockey?
Robot jockey is a noun.
What is the plural of robot jockey?
The plural of robot jockey is robot jockeys.

Words near robot jockey in the dictionary

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  4. robot
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  6. robot jockey
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  8. robot mower
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