Looking at a Boing Boing post from last week that features a bunch of kids in robot costumes, it occured to me that we have no word for robots in early stages of development, because there isn’t any use for such a word, at least right now. Then it occured to me that there is probably work I should be doing.
Robolings. You call them Robolings there you go.
so long as nobody suggests ‘robettes’.