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
Unfortunately, it turned out once again that a colorless automaton wasn't quite the winning personality everyone was looking for.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2023
In the beginning I was almost like an automaton, thought- lessly performing the actions that would keep me alive.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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
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
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
The shrimp are the work of Amedeo Capelli, a self-taught carpenter and maker of hand-operated automatons, or moving devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 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
Suddenly I had a weird thought: Could stone statues be automatons too?
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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