automaton

Example Sentences

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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

“It’s like ‘The Elephant Man’ — ‘I am a human being!’” he said, emphasizing that he’s more than just a ballad automaton.

From New York Times

Applying pen to paper, the mathematicians constructed the concept of cellular automata, dynamical entities made up of shaded or unshaded cells skipping across a two-dimensional grid.

From Scientific American

One example: it shows up as an “eventual period of a single cell in rule 110 cellular automaton in a cyclic universe of width n.”

From Scientific American

He's a dour, withdrawn, cold automaton who many people who know him really can't stand.

From Salon