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Meanings of automata in English

A self-operating machine or mechanism.

        Usage of automata in English
        1
        Today it was crowded with domestic automata, all the same model char-engine.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        2
        Yet it does not lack vigor, nor are his puppets merely automata.
        Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
        3
        Vaucanson, however, did not confine himself merely to the making of automata.
        Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
        4
        There they stood, automata, representatives of the society which streamed past them.
        Democracy, an American novel
        5
        It couldn't train the new one in sculpture, though, since automata couldn't speak.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        6
        Soldiers are drilled to become as much like automata, or computers, as possible.
        The god delusion
        7
        Your intentions notwithstanding, these automata of yours would put sculptors out of work.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        8
        What other means were there by which automata could engage in complex behavior?
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        9
        She worked on automata and I wanted to know what it was like.
        Reuters
        10
        The worst of it is, these people live lives approaching automata.
        The Arena, Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891
        11
        Without this we could not make our automata supply the place of servants.
        The Coming Race
        12
        They are then no more than vain shadows, passive, unresisting and powerless automata.
        The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
        13
        It seemed unfair that automata were so much easier to reproduce than humans.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        14
        What right have I to turn my fellow-creatures into bedizened automata like that?
        Lady Rose's Daughter
        15
        Milburn had developed the household automata able to return objects to their proper places.
        Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others)
        16
        Artificial automata and natural bodies are distinguished only in degree.
        History of Modern Philosophy / From Nicolas of Cusa to the Prese...
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