Full record for roboticist n.

Definition	a scientist or engineer who studies or works with robots
OED requirements	antedating 1946
Earliest cite	Isaac Asimov, 'Evidence'
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a 1946 cite from Isaac Asimov's "Evidence". Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1949 reprint of Asimov's "Victory Unintentional": we would like to verify this in the story's first publication (Super Science Stories, August 1942). Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1954 reprint of Asimov's "Robot AL 76 Goes Astray": we would like to bverify this in the story's first publication (Amazing Stories February 1942) Earliest cite in the OED: 1947.
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1949 I. Asimov Robot AL-76 Goes Astray in My Best Sci. Fiction Story 12	Nor, for that matter, had he any inkling of the fact that half a dozen roboticists, under the leadership of Sam Tobe, were smoking down the highway from Petersboro at better than a hundred and twenty miles an hour—for the sole purpose of having the pleasure and honor of his acquaintance.
1988 Locus Apr. 25/2	Opposing the Roboticists are the Biofundamentalists, conservatives who feel that robot intelligence is an abomination. Roboticist Jonathan Durant is killed in a fight with the Bioeffers, and all that is left of him is an imperfect robot copy.