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Automatons spin huge pieces of steel, effortlessly bending, twisting, and contorting the rigid medium with lithe precision.

From Time Magazine Archive

Automatons spin huge pieces of steel, effortlessly bending, twisting, and contorting the rigid medium with lithe precision.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Daedalus was the worlds greatest inventor. He created the Labyrinth, but much more. Automatons, thinking machines ... What if Kronos wishes Daedalus to make him a new form?”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

So may he so order several materials, as to make them, by several kinds of methods, produce similar Automatons.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

Automatons do not reproduce their kind, and mercenary labor yields no fruit.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise