Som nämnts ovan myntade han termen "robotteknik."
Asimov coined the term "robotics" in his 1941 story "Liar!", though he
later remarked that he believed then that he was merely using an
existing word, as he stated in Gold ("The Robot Chronicles")
( Wikipedia )
Det verkar dock vara om det. I samma uppsats i Guld skriver Asimov (sid 167-168 i min (första 1995) upplagan av guld)
I myself have never actually worked with robots, never even as much as
seen one, but I have never stopped thinking about them.
Men han bidrog till robotikens område på andra sätt:
Joseph F. Engelberger, studying at Columbia University in the 1950s,
came across I, Robot and was sufficiently attracted by what he read
to determine that he was going to devote his life to robots.
[...]
I have met other roboticists such as Marvin Minsky and Shimon Y. Nof, who also admitted, cheerfully, the value of their early reading of my robot stories.
( samma uppsats, sidan 167 )
Uppsatsen (enligt boken) var upphovsrättsskyddat 1990, två år före hans död 1992 , så det är tveksamt att han började studera med robotar på den sena tiden.