automaton
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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
The success of “Maybe Happy Ending” hinges in no small part on the miraculous performance of Darren Criss, who plays an automaton with a secretly sensitive heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
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
As Tom Standage has argued in his book The Turk, the public's reaction to the automaton in 1820s "foreshadowed" our own reaction to modern digital automatons.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
Georges Melies was sitting at a desk that he had dragged to the center of the room, a pen poised in his hand as though he were a giant version of the automaton.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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
Image: Public Domain Before they were surrogates for class fear, though, automata in Europe were spectacles.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
I wondered: Can cellular automata incorporate nonlocal entanglements?
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
John Ruskin, a Victorian art critic, raged at how the division of labor broke down traditional communities and turned people into automatons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The World Robot Olympiad opened in Singapore on Wednesday with hundreds of international students, some as young as eight, set to compete using automatons to solve real-world problems.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
But by the time Descartes catalyzed the Enlightenment in the 17th century, he had reduced other animals to mere automatons, tainting centuries of science with the assumption that anything unlike us is inherently inferior.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 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
“One ’em automatons, half pocket watch, half tin cup, and half growed man!”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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