robotize

Verb

1. To give something (or someone) the characteristics of a robot.
   • They have fought the robotizing of their characters to a kind of stand-off. - 1987, Ira Shor, Critical Teaching and Everyday Life, page 53:
   • But we did not want just to train Raun or robotize him or to use force or the threat of punishment as others had tried to do rather unsuccessfully with other youngsters like him. - 1994, Barry Neil Kaufman, Son Rise:...
   • Nazi criminals interviewed about their motives have given the same sort of replies: “Just following orders.” Hearts and consciences can be deadened and robotized in the same way. - 2007, Thomas d'Ansembourg, Being...
2. To automate, especially by making use of robots.
   • "[…]And maybe one works, but in the long run what it does is it robotizes the process.” - 2000, Lawrence Thelen, The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre, page 34:
   • In fact, its solution would determine the number of robots needed to tend machines in a manufacturing system and hence the investment required to robotize tending activities. - 2006, Massimiliano Caramia, Paolo...
   • All of these figures indicate that the off-road vehicles that will be robotized for deployment in agricultural fields will not have any trouble powering their sensors,[…]. - 2010, Francisco Rovira Más, Qin Zhang, Alan...