automata
a plural of automaton.
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How to use automata in a sentence
In 1966, the influential mathematician John Von Neumann discussed “self-reproducing automata.”
Will Self-Replicating Xenobots Cure Diseases, Yield New Bioweapons, or Simply Turn the World Into Grey Goo? | Simon Coghlan | December 10, 2021 | Singularity HubBuddhist legends focused on north-eastern India from the fourth and third centuries BCE recount the army of automata that guarded Buddha’s relics, built with knowledge smuggled from the Graecophone world.
Ancient robots were objects of fantasy and fun | E. R. Truitt/MIT Press Reader | November 30, 2021 | Popular-ScienceAs I’ve written, this updated version is perfect for anyone who wishes to understand “automata” in greater depth.
‘Nier Replicant’ is an experimental, heartbreaking pop album of a video game | Gene Park | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostHe constructed various machines and automata, among the most celebrated of which was his flying pigeon.
The worst of it is, these people live lives approaching automata.
Other Main-Travelled Roads | Hamlin Garland
Quar′ter-boys, automata which strike the quarter-hours in certain belfries.
They were unemotional automata, who knew nothing except to obey the orders of their terrible chief.
Up the Forked River | Edward Sylvester EllisDescartes—a pupil of the Jesuits—only applied his theory to man, and regarded animals as soulless automata.
The Wonders of Life | Ernst Haeckel
British Dictionary definitions for automata
/ (ɔːˈtɒmətə) /
a plural of automaton
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