automaton
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“That’s just my face,” Zuckerberg tweeted Tuesday, his first comment on the viral mania, which has been rivaled this week only by Kelly Clarkson’s bizarre feud with a Brooklyn toy store over an automaton bird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
At January’s conference, robots, including Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, a 6-foot-2-inch automaton weighing in at just under 200 pounds with a digital smiley face, were the stars.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
But its protagonist is a machine: an automaton of a tiger attacking a British soldier, built by an Indian artisan in the late 1700s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
The application was consuming me, organizing my synapses like an automaton farmer who makes Munsen predictions regarding the historical flow of neurotransmission.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2023
He opened the automaton up and carefully disassembled it.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
The sign jokes that the sculpture is the "world's most famous singing bird automata!"
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
The link between these cellular automata and the pursuit of artificial life grew stronger when, more than two decades later, mathematician John Conway designed the Game of Life.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
If we were not automata at that moment we would continue lying there, exhausted, and without will.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
The automatons he has created seem to lack the necessary ability to distinguish between friend and foe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Even with peak robot decades away, automatons will be an increasingly important part of a stock portfolio.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
The shrimp are the work of Amedeo Capelli, a self-taught carpenter and maker of hand-operated automatons, or moving devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Some in the party are anxious about this and accuse Reeves and other shadow ministers of sounding "robotic", like "automatons".
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2024
They were clearly the source of the flames, but they didn’t seem to be automatons.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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