self-moving
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Before now, Kriegman said, “no one has been using living materials as self-moving, self-powered robots.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2021
Eternally patient and silent, these looming claymen have a greater dignity than sinister, prattling living dolls or self-moving puppets.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2010
His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The conquest of Kuvera, and the acquisition of the magic self-moving chariot which has done much service in the Rámáyan, form the subject of sections XIII.,
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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