The term língchí derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly.
The classical description says light is an electro-magnetic wave.
Therefore they do fit the classical description of a robot.
The above reflects a classical, functional description of how we work as cognitive, thinking systems.
So, in fact, perfectly classical descriptions of the electric and magnetic fields in the light describe what is going on very well.
The classical description in medical literature is of a key-hole shaped defect.
However, it can still be explained using a fully classical description of light, as long as matter is quantum mechanical in nature.
In psychological terms this conforms to the classical description of schizophrenia.
They think it is a geometry exercise and some of them will produce accurate classical descriptions which you can acknowledge with a nod.
Most optical phenomena can be accounted for using the classical electromagnetic description of light.