automaton

“That’s just my face,” Zuckerberg tweeted Tuesday, his first comment on the viral mania, which has been rivaled this week only by Kelly Clarkson’s bizarre feud with a Brooklyn toy store over an automaton bird.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

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

Isabelle explained about the automaton and how Hugo had saved it from the fire.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick

The sign jokes that the sculpture is the "world's most famous singing bird automata!"

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

The link between these cellular automata and the pursuit of artificial life grew stronger when, more than two decades later, mathematician John Conway designed the Game of Life.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023

They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

René Descartes believed animals were soulless, unthinking automatons, though modern neuroscience has repeatedly disproven that one.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

The automatons he has created seem to lack the necessary ability to distinguish between friend and foe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Of the core three arguments we have distinguished—the corpuscular philosophy, animals as automatons and the clockwork universe—they agree on the first, but each picks one and only one of the other two.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton