self-moving

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Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.

From Literature

There is also Travelmate, a self-moving suitcase that follows its owner and is expected to be available this year.

From New York Times

"Is the highest principle regarded as a fixed, abstract, and rigid one, or as a concrete and self-moving one?"

From Project Gutenberg

The world consists of a finite number of atoms, which have in their own nature a self-moving force or principle.

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Having devised a scheme for perpetual motion he constructed several wheels which he claimed to be self-moving.

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