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automaton

[aw-tom-uh-ton, -tn] / ɔˈtɒm əˌtɒn, -tn /




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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

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

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

Then the automaton would probably be thrown away or destroyed.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick




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