All the electronics, singular or plural?

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I want to say that all the components of my robot are inside the robot, should I use is or are?

All the electronics are hidden inside the robot, only the power cable is visible outside of it.

In French, I would use singular because we're considering Electronics as one whole stuff. But I am not sure about English.

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My dictionary (Chambers, 13edn) provides the definition

(n sing) the science and technology of the conduction of electricity in a vacuum, a gas or a semi-conductor

but it also provides

(n pl) the electronic parts of a machine or system

and it's that second definition which you are using in your example sentence so are is correct.

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