robot jockey

robot jockey (plural robot jockeys)

1. A machine used to race camels.
   • 1982, Piers Anthony, Double Exposure‎^[1], volumes 1-3, Nelson Doubleday, page 112:

     She was a rider, obviously; was she also a jockey? To break in the most promising horses for racing? No robot-jockey could actually race, by law; but no living person had the programmed patience of a training machine, and the horses did well with such assistance.

   • 1988, Predicasts, inc, Predicasts Technology Update‎^[2], volume 44, numbers 27-52, Predicasts, page 12:

     Tohoku Electronic Industrial (Japan) has developed a robot jockey to help train horses.

   • 2015 August 28, Lamber Royakkers, Rinie van Est, “Automation from Love to War”, in Just Ordinary Robots: Automation from Love to War‎^[3], illustrated edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 308:

     The Swiss company K-Team developed the robot jockey Kamal, which has taken over the work of child jockeys ever since. These light-weight robots are remote controlled by operators that drive in cars alongside the racetracks.

   • 2016 July 27, John Arcudi, Lobster Johnson: Metal Monsters of Midtown #3‎^[4], number 3, Dark Horse Comics, page 12:

     “THAT'S MY GIRL.” “YEAH, GREAT. SHE CAN GO AHEAD AND MAKE HER CAREER WHILE THE BOSS LOSES HIS SOUL PLAYING ROBOT JOCKEY--” “--AND WE LOSE OUR MINDS LOOKING FOR A RADIO SHACK AMONG THE BOATS.”

   • 2024 October 15, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts, The Shape of Spirituality: The Public Significance of a New Religious Formation‎^[5], Columbia University Press, →ISBN:

     Then, after a team of Swiss engineers and zoologists built robot jockey prototypes, the camels refused to race because the new robot jockeys didn't resemble their previous human riders.