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See definition of automaton on Dictionary.com
  • as inmachine
  • as inmachine

synonyms for automaton

  • agent
  • clone
  • drudge
  • grind
  • laborer
  • puppet
  • robot
  • zombie
  • mechanical
See also synonyms for: automatous
  • apparatus
  • appliance
  • automobile
  • engine
  • gadget
  • instrument
  • motor
  • tool
  • vehicle
  • computer
  • contraption
  • contrivance
  • implement
  • mechanism
  • robot
  • thingamabob
  • widget
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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to automaton, such as: agent, clone, drudge, grind, laborer, and puppet.
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How to use automaton in a sentence

Charles Babbage was partial to Merlin’s Mechanical Museum, with its many automata.
THE METAVERSE IS A NEW WORD FOR AN OLD IDEAGENEVIEVE BELLFEBRUARY 8, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
At first, I saw the game like a machine, not unlike the Mechanical Turk, that impressive 18th-century hoax of a chess-playing automaton, its parts moving and interacting according to complex yet intuitive principles.
WE TAUGHT COMPUTERS TO PLAY CHESS — AND THEN THEY LEFT US BEHINDOLIVER ROEDERJANUARY 25, 2022FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
These included instructions for how to make elaborate dioramas with moving figures, musical automata, mechanical servants, and automata powered by steam, water, air, and mechanics.
ANCIENT ROBOTS WERE OBJECTS OF FANTASY AND FUNE. R. TRUITT/MIT PRESS READERNOVEMBER 30, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCE
I would much rather share the world with them than with thoughtless automatons.
DO YOU WANT AI TO BE CONSCIOUS? - ISSUE 102: HIDDEN TRUTHSRYOTA KANAIJUNE 9, 2021NAUTILUS
For much of the 20th century, nonhuman creatures were seen as essentially biological automatons that responded in certain instinctual ways to external stimulus, but lacked the rich inner lives and selfhood that humans possess.
EYE-OPENING ACTS OF EMPATHY IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOMRICHARD SCHIFFMANAPRIL 9, 2021WASHINGTON POST
In a sport full of corporate automatons, he will sit down and tell you what’s on his mind, even if it’s a lot.
A DECADE AFTER COLLAPSING, RORY MCILROY IS STILL TRYING TO GET OFF THE DECK AT THE MASTERSBARRY SVRLUGAAPRIL 8, 2021WASHINGTON POST
These include old-school path-finding algorithms that connect remote parts of a settlement, cellular automata that can produce complex structures using simple rules, and machine learning.
AI PLANNERS IN MINECRAFT COULD HELP MACHINES DESIGN BETTER CITIESWILL HEAVENSEPTEMBER 22, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Crawley came walking like an automaton from whose joints the oil had suddenly dried.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE
The scrivener did look up accordingly, with the action of an automaton which suddenly obeys the impulse of a pressed spring.
THE FORTUNES OF NIGELSIR WALTER SCOTT
Like an automaton the man stepped forward, and after him paced the white horse.
RIDERS OF THE SILENCESJOHN FREDERICK
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WORDS RELATED TO AUTOMATON

  • agent
  • automaton
  • clone
  • drudge
  • grind
  • laborer
  • mechanical
  • puppet
  • robot
  • zombie
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.