automaton
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“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 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
His hand was hurting, and he knew it was going to be hard to carry the automaton back to the old man, so he stopped at the cafe to get some more ice.
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
Perhaps the message was hinting at the aliens’ appearance, morse code, cellular automata or the genetic secrets of E.T.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023
An undated eighteenth-century handbill announcing an exhibition of three of Vaucanson’s automata: the flute player, the drummer and the digesting duck.
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
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
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
“Good automatons are what she needs. They never act up!”
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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