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 term for an automaton picked up steam elsewhere with the advent of artificial intelligence and the wider adoption of delivery robots.

From Salon • Aug. 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 automaton was heavy and in several pieces, but he picked it up and, not having anywhere else to go, returned to the dreaded station.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick