automata
Americannoun
noun
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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
Applying pen to paper, the mathematicians constructed the concept of cellular automata, dynamical entities made up of shaded or unshaded cells skipping across a two-dimensional grid.
From Scientific American • Apr. 6, 2023
Looking over the history of automata, there’s one particular type of robot that Ameca reminds me of: the robotic saint.
From The Verge • May 4, 2022
Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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