Definitions
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- noun A
robot that is powered bysolar cells and moves towardslight to "feed".
Etymologies
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photo- + -vore
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Examples
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Nearby grew a variety of thin photovore that flourished in thick stands like pale yellow bamboo.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Like the majority of lifeforms on Prism, the cascalarian was a photovore.
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Surely the caterpillar was a photovore, with all those light; gathering cilia on its back?
Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985
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Herbie the Mousebot hogging the limelight, folks might forget or be unaware of the fact that the original LM386-based Herbie circuit was a line-follower, not a photovore (light-seeker).
MAKE Magazine 2009
qms commented on the word photovore
The breatharians set ultimate store
By sun and the wind and no more
But sunlight and air
Are a diet too spare
And darkness will cloak the photovore.
The Definition describes the use of "photovore" in robotics only, although the examples supply other applications, as does common sense.
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March 13, 2016