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
On Wednesday he was an automaton, almost like a windup toy.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2025
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
The cap’n axed the automaton, “How long to Windsor?”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
As you get used to treating human-like automata as automata, you may slowly find yourself treating humans the same.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
Conventional cellular automata, including Life, are strictly local, in the sense that what happens in one cell depends on what happens in its neighboring cells.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
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
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
Even with peak robot decades away, automatons will be an increasingly important part of a stock portfolio.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
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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