Robotien

Robotien is a linguistic form in Finnish that serves as the genitive plural of the noun referring to robots. It marks possession or association, roughly translating to “of robots” or “robots’” in English. In standard Finnish, the common genitive plural of the word for robot is robottien; for example, robottien ohjelmointi would mean “the programming of robots” and robottien turvallisuus would mean “the safety of robots.” The form robotien may appear in nonstandard usage or in texts influenced by different orthographic habits, but robottien is the form typically preferred in formal writing.

Etymology and formation: Finnish loanwords for robot originate from broader European usage of the concept, with inflection following Finnish noun patterns. For nouns ending in -tti, the genitive plural is typically rendered as -ttien, which yields robottien in standard usage. The appearance of robotien is usually considered a variant rather than the normative form in modern Finnish.

Usage: The genitive plural is used to indicate attribution, ownership, or association with robots in formal, scientific, and technical contexts. It appears in discussions of robot design, ethics, safety, policy, and research where the relationship between humans and automated systems is described.

See also: Robotti, Robotiikka, Robotit, Finnish grammar.