Word of the Day
26 February 2026
cobot
nounRobotics
A robot intended to interact physically with humans in a shared workspace.
Why this one
A contraction of collaborative robot, and the word misleads: the collaboration lives in the application, not the arm. Payload, speed and what it holds still decide whether a fence goes up.
In use
The cobot can hand off parts right at the bench, but with that gripper on it we still had to slow the approach down.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.