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robocolleague en · NOUN

Etymology

From robo- + colleague.

Meanings

1. Robotic or AI systems designed to assist humans to work.
   • That is leading Gartner to predict that by 2026, 100 million workers will have what the firm calls a “robo-colleague,” a synthetic virtual assistant designed to help make users more productive and efficient. 2023 March 22, Zachary Comeau, quoting Frances Karamouzis of Gartner Data & Analytics, “IT Leaders Should Prepare for Generative AI in the Enterprise”, in My Tech Decisions:
   • With AI making an entrance in the cubicles at the workplace, some office workers are warming up to their robo-colleagues by giving them female names: back-end staff for ANZ bank in Bangalore call their robo-colleague Lakshmi, while Nippon Life Insurance Company in Japan addresses them as robomi-chan, or "pretty little robot". 2019 January-June, Ajay Kr Singh, “Developments in artificial intelligence: a global perspective”, in Delhi Business Review, volume 20, number 1, page 11:
   • (title:) Robocolleague: Robots are getting more powerful. That need not be bad news for workers [2013 March 2, “Robocolleague”, in The Economist, volume 406, number 8825, page 74:
   • The nine-to-five routine could certainly be sweetened by a robocolleague to sweat your boring stuff. But will they get the teas in? 2019 May 8, Mark Blunden, “Artificial intelligence will mean more jobs for humans, not fewer”, in Evening Standard, page 16:

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