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
On Wednesday he was an automaton, almost like a windup toy.
From Salon ● Dec. 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
Quack - enbush wasn’t going to let me just do the work for him like the automaton I wished to be.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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
There are numerous examples of such religious automata from the late medieval era onwards, including life-size sculptures of Christ and the Virgin Mary that were equipped with articulated limbs and animated by puppetry or clockwork.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
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
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
Wilson clearly desires children to be quiet little automatons, instead of living, complex human beings.
From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026
Even with peak robot decades away, automatons will be an increasingly important part of a stock portfolio.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
The shrimp are the work of Amedeo Capelli, a self-taught carpenter and maker of hand-operated automatons, or moving devices.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 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
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