automata

He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.

The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.

Back in the 17th century, clock makers started turning the wheels from clocks into these moving robots called automata.

A high-spec automaton powered by artificial intelligence (AI), he isn't quite human though it is hard to say why.

Do you think I am an automaton?

Greek engineers began making actual automatons including robotic servants and flying models of birds.

" Try an 'automaton, '" said the shopman.

These non-electrical and certainly non-electronic machines were called automatons.

They move to their terrible end as automatons move.

Descartes considered an animal to be a kind of complicated automaton.