1. To make automatic: Industries that robotize tend to increase manufacturing output without increases in wages, and they can have dire consequences for human workers because they are less expensive to have and they perform efficiently on a regular basis over long periods of time.
2. To cause someone to become mechanical and controllable: When people are robotized, they no longer have the capacity to deviate from actions that have been installed in them.
3. Etymology: from Czech robota, "work, forced labor, drudgery" + -ize from Latin izare, "to make." © ALL rights are reserved.

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