- n.Unthinking people operating machinery; Automated device; Small robots
- WebAutomata; Automatic equipment; Automatic machines
adj.automatous
pl.automatons
- These living Automata, Human bodies.
Source: R. Boyle - The perfect Drama, an automaton supported and moved without any foreign help, was formed late and gradually.
Source: Burke - Such a self-adjusting machine, containing the immediate conditions of its actions within itself, is what is properly understood by an Automaton.
Source: T. H. Huxley
