roboteer

From robot +‎ -eer.

roboteer (plural roboteers)

1. One who operates a robot.
   • 1984, Orville Schell, Modern Meat, page 7:

     Covered with American Cyanamid decals, this contrivance is radio-controlled by a roboteer behind a rattan screen at one end of Cyanamid's make-believe lounge […]

2. One who takes an interest in robotics.
   • 1994, David Clarke Burks, Place of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology, page 52:

     There are roboteers who think it would be an advance to replace our brain tissue with computer circuits.

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