programmed
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Though the drone was programmed to travel to a particular gas station by human operators, its final target mostly likely was selected by the weapon’s own internal system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
A line of industrial robots are waiting to be programmed, and in another part of the classroom, students are trying to develop robotic medical instruments.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
It turned out the bot was programmed with generative AI without the nonprofit’s knowledge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
In effect, it allows heat to be programmed in a way that resembles how data is stored and controlled inside a computer chip.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
If we were all genetically programmed to play the piano deftly from birth, we might never learn to understand music.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
