robotize

verb

1. (transitive)To give something (or someone) the characteristics of a robot.

   “They have fought the robotizing of their characters to a kind of stand-off.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “Their cut-ups, sputtering drum machines, and shreds of harsh noise are the ugly mirrors of pop music's technological wonderland, while their lyrics literalize the horror of humans being treated as dead machines in pop-Marxist language and production styles that robotize the voice.”

2. (transitive)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.””

   “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.”

   “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,[…].”