"devising robots" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to create or come up with robots through planning and inventing. Example: The engineers spent months devising robots that could mimic human movements and complete complex tasks independently.
Note, only in passing, the tragic irony of human workers contributing to their own obsolescence, as it seems likely that they will eventually devise robots that can reproduce themselves (heads up, fans of "Battlestar Galactica").
When Mr. Brown spotted an unsolved Rubik's Cube in a neighbor's apartment last year, he wondered if he could devise a robot that would solve the puzzle.
Scientists at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire, devised a robot that gently suctioned particles from the bottom.
Heyns, has submitted a 22-page report on "lethal autonomous robots", says that the deployment of such robots "may be unacceptable because no adequate system of legal accountability can be devised" and because "robots should not have the power of life and death over human beings".
As devised by Steven Spielberg, robots called mechas make energy-efficient helpmates in a world depleted by ecological disaster.
"Their deployment may be unacceptable because no adequate system of legal accountability can be devised and because robots should not have the power of life and death over human beings," the United Nations' watchdog on extrajudicial killings, Christof Heyns, told the council.
Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar of the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania devised these flying robots to build simple cubic structures, ones of no great artistic merit (except if you're a Sol Lewitt fan), but this is, of course, just the beginning.
Told to devise a faux robot that believed it functioned better than a person, he came up with a cocky, boxy, jittery, bleeping Muppet on wheels.
Autonomous robots like the ones Dr. Sukhatme is devising are likely to have military benefits, too, said Dr. Larry Matthies, a computer scientist who leads the machine vision group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
And that requires navigating not only vast underground landscapes but also a series of meticulously designed test chambers that the robots have devised to measure human intelligence.
