Robocat vs Robocar - What's the difference?
robocat | robocar |
A robot resembling a cat.
* 1996 , Andrew Pessin, ?Sanford Goldberg, The Twin Earth Chronicles (page 109)
* 2001 , Carl Elliott, Slow Cures and Bad Philosophers (page 86)
* 2008 , Sigrid Kelsey, Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication
As nouns the difference between robocat and robocar
is that robocat is a robot resembling a cat while robocar is a robotic car capable of driving itself.robocat
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagine that instead of robocats there are immobile spies with a mechanical hypnosis device. When we think we see cats chasing mice, howling on roof tops, we are hallucinating.
- Thus, if I normally judge that something is a cat and therefore an animal on the basis of it being a warm, furry, purry creature that looks like a cat, then I will go seriously wrong in a world where robocats who are also warm, furry, and purry abound.
- Since then thousands of robodogs, robocats and other roboanimals have been sold not only in Japan but also in Europe and the USA.